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The street cleaner in Culmer, he said, 'I clean this place up and come back 30 minutes later and its like I've never been here.'

Poitier wheels home a cartload of beer cans for recycling. His little girl tags along.

Mr. Poitier who makes his living as a scavenger (picking up beer cans and selling them for metal recycling) wipes his eyes at the days end.

Mr. Poitier picks up beer cans from trash. He sells them to be recycled. This supplements his disability money from the loss of his fingers on his right hand. Living off what others throw away.

From the moment he weaved shirtless, mumbling incoherently, from the pool hall, he spelled trouble. His friends tried to pull him out of the daze he was in. While some Culmer residents just walked by, his friend took him by the shoulders and yelled…

Culmer, the predominantly black ghetto just west of downtown Miami is not a nice place to visit. It is even a worse place to live. It is a section of Miami that has been misunderstood, abused, neglected, maligned, realigned and forgotten.

Poolroom downtown.

Culmer, the predominantly black ghetto just west of downtown Miami is not a nice place to visit. It is even a worse place to live. It is a section of Miami that has been misunderstood, abused, neglected, maligned, realigned and forgotten.

Streetwise and cool. Unemployment of black youth continues to rise.

Photograph of a windmill at sun.