inner city

On the Run

By Rachel Newcomb Sep 12, 2014 The result of six years of intensive fieldwork, "On the Run" examines the precarious lives of men who are in and out of prison, and the devastating effects on already impoverished urban communities."On the Run" examines the precarious lives of men who are in and out of prison, and the devastating effects on already impoverished urban communities. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

America’s Disappeared

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 12, 2013 The poor routinely vanish from city streets after encounters with police. They are swallowed up by jails and prisons for weeks, months or years for offenses often trivial or invented. These disruptions of lives have destroyed cohesion in urban communities, which live in heightened states of fear and troubling unrest.The poor routinely vanish from city streets and end up frozen in the penal system. The result is damaged urban communities. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout May 25, 2013 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s current attempt to close down 54 public schools largely inhabited by poor minorities is one more example of a savage, racist neoliberal system that uses the politics of austerity and consolidation to further disenfranchise unskilled youths in the inner city. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

What’s at the Heart of Black Cool?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 17, 2012 A thoughtful, personal essay by photographer Hank Willis Thomas makes the case that the cultures of America’s inner-city black communities, once dignified by the gains of the civil rights movement, have been steadily degraded over the last three decades by corporate capitalism.The cultures of America’s inner-city black communities, once dignified by the gains of the civil rights movement, have been steadily degraded over the last three decades by corporate capitalism, writes photographer Hank Willis Thomas. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Baltimore: The City That Bleeds

Staff / Truthdig Nov 23, 2011 David Kennedy, author of "Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America," spent more than 10 years in the worst corners of the worst cities in the country before going to Baltimore. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )