inner cities

While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner.

Mary Childers discusses how her mother's many failed relationships and her childhood spent in poverty influenced the choices she has made and her goals in life.

Photos, lyrics, stories, and advice tell how the artists make the record and the video, and how rap can be a force for positive change.

A young boy, who lives in the inner city, builds a playground out of old tires to convince his mother that they do not need to move for him to have room to play.

Stephanie decides to do something to get rid of crime and violence on her street, leading to a transformation of her school and neighborhood.

Award-winning journalist Cora Daniels, examines the influence of "ghetto" attitudes and lifestyle on urban communities; and argues that it is demeaning to women, devalues education, and projects negative African-American stereotypes.

A collection of personal narratives in which men and women explore how their lives were affected by living in the ghettos.

A woman who grew up in the blighted Bronx during the 1960s offers a memoir of poverty, abuse, and the welfare system, describing a world of urban decay, rampant crime, race riots, white flight, alcohol and drugs, and her own difficult struggle to achieve self-sufficiency.

Twelve-year-old boys living in a rough part of New York confront questions about what it means to be a friend, a father, and a man.