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The Grim State of American Inner Cities

Journalist Alex Kotlowitz won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for a series of articles he wrote for the Wall Street Journal chronicling the lives of two children in a housing project in Chicago. He's expanded those articles into the new book, "There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up In the Other America."

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Other segments from the episode on April 2, 1991

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 2, 1991: Interview with Alex Kotlowitz; Interview with Barry Michael Cooper; Review of James Clay's album "I Let a Song Go out of My Heart."
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Saxophonist James Clay's Comeback Album

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the musician's new CD, "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart." Clay was part of the progressive jazz movement in the 50s. Whitehead says the saxophonist's playing has evolved since his days working with Don Cherry.

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Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh

Venkatesh, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of African American Studies at Columbia University in New York. His newest book –American Project: The Rise and Fall of the Modern Ghetto,— (Harvard 2000) was awarded the 2000 Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers. His research interests are based in investigating the social organization of poor urban neighborhoods. He lives in New York City.

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Two Teenagers' Perspective on Life in the Projects

Radio producer David Isay and reporters LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman. The new book "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago," (Scribner) is compiled from interviews by Jones and Newman conducted at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago, where they live. These are the same two boys who worked with Isay on the acclaimed documentaries, "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: the 14 stories of Eric Morse."

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