“You Don’t Know Us” – Young Voices from Chicago’s South Shore Neighborhood

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Stereotypes are harmful and misleading…especially when they don’ tell the whole story.

The words of these special young people, along with those of their teacher, could go a long way to changing a situation in which the only people from outside who show up in their “fancy suits” are part of the same media that refuse to deliver the Chicago Tribune to their neighborhood.

Click here to read this seldom shown portrait of inner-city Chicago which illustrates optimism and hope despite the hardship, gloom and strife too often reported in mainstream media outlets.

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