Kotlowitz, Alex

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March 5, 2019

43:06

'An American Summer' Looks At How Gun Violence 'Gets In People's Bones'

Alex Kotlowitz discusses the people whose lives were changed or lost due to gun violence in Chicago one summer. He likens the trauma of living with gun violence to the PTSD some veterans experience.

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April 2, 1991

22:08

The Grim State of American Inner Cities

Journalist Alex Kotlowitz won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for a series of articles he wrote for the Wall Street Journal chronicling the lives of two children in a housing project in Chicago. He's expanded those articles into the new book, "There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up In the Other America."

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Alex Kotlowitz

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'An American Summer' Looks At How Gun Violence 'Gets In People's Bones'

The Grim State of American Inner Cities

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