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How Long Will I Cry? Voices of Youth Violence
In 2011 and 2012, while more than 900 people were being murdered on the streets of Chicago, creative-writing students from DePaul University fanned out all over the city to interview people whose lives have been changed by the bloodshed.
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Hell Broke Loose
Hyinth Davis
Big Shoulders Books
Oct 18, 2013
The Girl Was a Fighter
Cristina Figueroa
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Oct 18, 2013
The Dream Club’s Chief Dreamer
Colleen F. Sheehan
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You Live By It, You Die By It
Latoya Winters
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Everything about Me Is Tainted
Maria Hernandez
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The Whole World Stopped
Audrey Wright
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Defending the Goners
Kulmeet Galhotra
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Oct 14, 2013
God, Are You Trying to Get My Attention?
Jorge Roque
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Oct 14, 2013
What the Watchman Saw
Corey Brooks
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Oct 14, 2013
Why Should I Harass People for Standing on the Corner?
Harlon Keith Moss Jr.
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Oct 14, 2013
Home Was the Three of Us
Jeff Maldonado Sr.
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Oct 14, 2013
How Dare I Still Be Happy?
Tu-Tu
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Oct 14, 2013
Both Feet Out
Benny Estrada
Big Shoulders Books
Oct 14, 2013
The Walk Home
Juan and Esther Pitts
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Oct 14, 2013
Four Bullets
John McCullough
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Oct 14, 2013
A Twig in a Tornado
Timothy Clark
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Oct 14, 2013
Unanswered Prayers
Pamela Montgomery-Bosley
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Oct 14, 2013
A Message for Stupid People
Reggie
Big Shoulders Books
Oct 14, 2013
When a Bullet Enters a Body
Nancy L. Jones
Big Shoulders Books
Oct 14, 2013
Take a Risk
Frankie Valencia, speaking at DePaul University two weeks before he was murdered
Big Shoulders Books
Oct 14, 2013
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