His debut collection, Stateway’s Garden, captures the city’s unique, ugly beauty.
Tag: housing projects
Posted inFilm
History repeats itself over and over again at the African Diaspora Film Festival
The aftershocks of the slave trade echo from Benin to Hungary to Cuba to Cabrini Green.
Posted inBlogs
How a story about the horrors of housing projects became part of a horror movie
On the parallels between a 1987 Reader article and the movie Candyman.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Mon 1/28: Off the Record, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, January 28, 2013
Posted inArts & Culture
“The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation” considers public housing as artistic training ground
The National Public Housing Museum presents “The Sound, the Soul, the Syncopation”
Posted inBlogs
The end of segregation?
Things look rosier in a new study than they do at 55th and Ashland