Ghetto Life 101
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| Genre | Documentary |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Created by | LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman |
| Produced by | David Isay |
| Original release | May 18, 1993 – recurring rebroadcast |
Ghetto Life 101 is a 30-minute radio broadcast documentary exploring the lives of residents of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was created by teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman and produced by David Isay for National Public Radio. The broadcast garnered international acclaim and won several awards.
Overview
[edit]Ghetto Life 101 illustrates life on the South Side of Chicago in 1993. The broadcast footage was recorded by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, who were thirteen and fourteen, respectively, at the time. The broadcast centered on interviews with the boys' families, friends, and members of the community.[1]
Reception
[edit]The broadcast was well received, and praised for its raw portrayal of life in the Chicago projects. It won several awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Awards for Excellence in Documentary Radio and Special Achievement in Radio Programming.[1]
Later works
[edit]| External videos | |
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 Booknotes interview with Jones on Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, August 3, 1997, C-SPAN |
Jones and Newman made a second documentary, Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse,[2] which explored the backgrounds of people involved with Eric Morse, a five-year-old boy who was thrown from a fourteenth-story window in the Chicago projects by two older boys, after he refused to steal candy for them.[3] This won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Peabody Award in 1996.
The two documentaries and further footage from when Jones and Newman were nearing high school graduation were condensed into a book published in 1997 entitled Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Listen to Stories". storycorps.org. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits". 2010-06-25. Archived from the original on 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ Ghetto Life 101 & Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse at audible.com Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved January 2, 2007.
External links
[edit]- A 2001 update on the boys' lives Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- An interview with the authors of Our America on Charlie Rose (1997)
- Booknotes interview with LeAlan Jones on Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, August 3, 1997