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The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence.
[2] In December 2013, Elliott published "Invisible Child," a 28,000-word, five-part series for the Times on child homelessness in New York City. [4] Elliott expanded the series into a book for Random House as an Emerson Fellow at New America Foundation. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City was published in October 2021.
It's a picture, a photograph, as opposed to a video" Ruege said. Glen Garner, who is homeless, tries to cool off in the 99-degree heat in Edward Rendon Sr. Park at Festival Beach in Austin, Texas ...
California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew.
When Daniel Robinson, a 24-year-old Black man, went missing in Arizona in June 2021, his father, David Robinson, spent months pleading for police to be more aggressive in their search. Frustrated ...
Lenni and the entire Ghostwriter Team get to go on-set for the filming of the video, but a series of strange accidents happen. It turns out that the target is not Lenni, but Jade, her producer. The team wrestles with the mystery of the accidents, as well as trying to babysit Jamal's cousin, Casey (Lateaka Vinson), who ends up meeting Ghostwriter.
One of Daytop’s founders, a Roman Catholic priest named William O’Brien, thought of addicts as needy infants — another sentiment borrowed from Synanon. “You don’t have a drug problem, you have a B-A-B-Y problem,” he explained in Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use In America, 1923-1965, published in 1989. “You ...
A man faces voluntary manslaughter charges for shooting and killing a homeless person while recording the incident. Southern California authorities report that on Sept. 28, 68-year-old Craig ...