Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering age of teenage parents among poor black youths. Dash had expected to find inadequate sex ...
Using the world of teenagers, When Children Want Children brings the reader into the real world of the urban underclass to understand their lives, cultural values, motivations, and attitudes.
Based on a much discussed series in the Wash ington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family t rapped in the cycle of poverty in the projects of Washington DC, a stone''s throw from the monuments and civil halls of t he world''s richest nation. '
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