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Friends and relatives hug after coming out Starkeshia Reed's household in March 2006. Fourteen year old Starkeshia Reed was shot in her living room as she was preparing to go to school in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. She was…

A girl and her brothers pose for their picture in the Pocket. Approximately 63% of African-American kids grow up in single parent households. This is a story about place. Pockettown, or “the Pocket,” is a tight-knit African-American…

A group of kids run across Woodlawn near 73rd St. across from the old Midwest Gulf State Factory. Only the floor remains of the Midwest Gulf State Company on S. Woodlawn. Like many other factories in the neighborhood, the Midwest was a solid employer…

Reggie and his crew hanging out on a car on 72nd St. Chicago's South Side has numerous gangs and the Pocket, a six block square neighborhood there are three rival gangs that battle each other for turf and supremacy. Most of the members know each…

Madonna Driver runs in her front yard before she and her family moved to another neighborhood. Vacant lots that used to sell for $1 in the 1980's are valuable real estate and developers all over the South Side are clambering to scoop up the land that…

Is my back comfortable?' asks Linda. 'It's like a horse's back but it's more boney,' responds daughter Martha, tired from an outing collecting Hickory nuts. At age nine, being the second youngest in the family, Martha is next in line to define her…

Every year Linda's side of the family has a family reunion. Due to the amount of work on the farm it is one of the few occasions when all members of the family leave the farm unattended. In the past, before the size of the farm increased, the…

Titus closes the door to his oldest brother Tom's office which is also a storage room and one of the many makeshift places to play. To the side are old egg cartons as well as trophies Tom won at poultry shows.

Before their 'stop sale' on their pet food license the Fagans would sell raw milk in old glass containers. At the farmer's market the glass containers, egg cartons, and plastic bags would continue to be exchanged and recycled.

Every Saturday the family comes to the farmer's market regardless of weather. The family's income comes from the market, selling milk to the local dairy, Ken's job repairing refrigerators and other mechanical items, as well as a few odd jobs the…