Basketball Gives Poor City Kids a "Shot"
Writer Darcy Frey, a contributing editor to "Harper's" and "The New York Times Magazine," spent a year at the Abraham Lincoln High School on Coney Island. He followed four young, African American basketball players trying to make it out of the ghetto and into a Division I school. "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams" is his record of what happened to the dreams of these young men.
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Other segments from the episode on December 5, 1994
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 5, 1994: Interview with Darcy Frey; Interview with Randall Rothenberg; Review of Christopher O'Riley's album "Histoire du Soldat; Pétrouchka; Apollo."
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