Seve Anderson is a former Chicago cop, now homeless and living at Pacific Gardens Mission.  He responds to a Vocalo.org upload by the North Lawndale Roundtable in which someone says a cop on the street has to be a little dirty to get respect.Photo by... full post »

Podcast 5: Curie Youth Radio's "Every Color is Somebody's Gang Color" (remixed by Vocalo.org)Students from Currie Youth Radio project talk about clothing and gangs. Audio remixed by Vocalo.org. full post »

Interviewing a woman that has spent most of her time in our community, we spent around thirty minutes conversing about our community and it's youths.In the beginning I was nervous ...really nervous.I had no idea what to say, until I looked around and star... full post »

Just A Statistic.London has seen sixteen young people stabbed, killed or seriously injured this year due to knives. The media have created a whole story out of it, and yes something is definitely wrong, and happening on these streets, but what about reali... full post »

Full Title: Anatomy of a Punch part 2 - TON 14 excerpt full post »

"Megan Williams, 20, who is black, was tortured for days at a remote hillside home in Big Creek, sexually assaulted and forced to eat rat droppings. Williams' captors, all of them white, also choked her with a cable cord and stabbed her in th... full post »

I got an email with a youtube video from a guy called the Trashman. He reads a list of between 15 or 20 latina and black females saying that he infected them with HIV. He claims what he did was with the purpose of teaching gold diggers "a lesson". He sa... full post »

Lincoln Park resident and furniture salesman James Calendar leaned back into his chair, searching for words. Outside the Thomas Moser storefront, traffic zoomed through River North, a neighborhood that Calendar once called home. After ten years in the ... full post »

My car has never been broken into, despite the fact that I live in a very tough part of Philadelphia, because I'm careful. Did I screw up last night?This Too Will Pass. Taking grave matters lightly and light matters gravely since 2001.  full post »

20/20 did a special experiment in which they sent 6 men, 3 white and 3 black to vandalize a car in a white, upscale affluent neighborhood. When neighbors saw the white kids, the cops only recieved one call about the incident. When they saw the black kids,... full post »