When Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash set out to investigate the ever-lowering age of teenage parents, what he discovered shocked him: these pregnancies were almost always intentional.
When Washington Post reporter, Leon Dash set out to investigate the ever-lowering age of teenage parents, what he discovered shocked him: these pregna...
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty and pathology within America's black underclass. Rosa Lee's life story spans a half century of hardship in the slums and housing...
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the project...
