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 ...

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, ...

Singer Olamide has recalled his life’s experiences while growing up in a shanty town. While speaking in a recent interview with The Guardian UK, Baddo Sneh disclosed how growing up in a slum in the ...

There's a danger of overpraising a movie like the indie sensation "Raising Victor Vargas." It's so tiny in scale that hyped-up audiences who go into it expecting a major emotional experience are ...

Diary notations written by a Jew incarcerated by the Nazis in the Lodz ghetto in 1942 and 1943, telling the pitiful story of starvation, death–and the will to live and to save his daughter’s life- ...

One of New York City's last remaining public artworks by Banksy was moved from the Bronx to Bridgeport. The "Ghetto 4 Life," mural was painted onto an exterior wall of 651 Elton Ave. On Monday, Feb.