Youths from the Brighton Park neighborhood say gangs are their family and they would never give them up, while teens in the Back of the Yards neighborhood say it’s better to have an illegal gun and risk going to jail than be shot dead. Produced, written, shot and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin. Narrated by …
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Interrupters from Cure Violence, formerly known as Cease Fire, try to cool tempers and immediately defuse the conflicts that perpetuate the cycle of violence. And local law enforcement reaches out directly to parolees to give them alternatives to violence. Produced, written, shot and edited by Craig Duff with reporter Stephen Franklin.
In part 5 of the MSNBC.com original series on Chicago and life in a city under siege from guns, we meet a group of men called Brothers on the Block — and their counterpart group Sisters on the Street — who fanned out to the city’s most crime-ridden blocks to make a show of force against violence. …
A friend sent me a note the other day saying that she was researching D-Day and came across a piece I created in 2009 — on the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy — about the intrepid photographer Robert Capa and the iconic images he made that day. Much of his film was lost …
Seventy years ago: iconic images, gathered under fire, nearly lost Read More »
Some fans of the Indianapolis 500 are, for the first time, spending race weekend camped out in luxurious tents on the speedway’s infield. For diehard fans who were accustomed to staying in local hotels or campgrounds, this was a lifelong dream. https://nyti.ms/1mnOVng
As orchestras see audiences age and dwindle in size, the Cleveland Orchestra is trying to attract the youngest audience of any in America by its 100th birthday in 2018. In this video piece for NYTimes.com, we meet players, patrons and the orchestra’s music director Franz Welser-Möst, who are all united to bring more young people …
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