Almost 30 years ago on this program, we introduced listeners to two boys from Chicago. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST, "GHETTO LIFE 101") LEALAN JONES, BYLINE: My name's LeAlan Jones, and I'm 13 ...
LeAlan Jones rushes onto the West Chatham Park practice football field and shoves his right outside linebacker: “Why are you waiting for him to come to you?” he demands, then shows the young man how ...
Lloyd Newman, who teamed up with a fellow teenager in the 1990s to record two award-winning radio documentaries that bared the pernicious underside of growing up in a Chicago public housing project, ...