I was reading this when I was attending the National Writing Project. Here is what I wrote in my journal back then:>>It was one of the most infuriating and outrageous books I have read. Kozol is very able to illuminate how humanity can allow humanity to suffer through indifference and lack of com...
When they do, it is often the result of a particularly vivid news report. One such story drew attention at the time that I first visited the Martinique. Although the mother was no longer living in the building, her story was known to several residents because she had been living here when she was...
Broadway and Sixth Avenue were the major thoroughfares. 2 “APARTMENT FIRE KILLS BRONX BOY” AND OTHER HEADLINES: New York Daily News, April 6, May 4, 5, 6, 1994. 3 CHRISTOPHER SENT TO JUVENILE DETENTION, HIS SUBSEQUENT SENTENCES AT RIKERS ISLAND: Children in New York younger than sixteen are b...