SPECIAL: Remembering Lloyd Newman of Ghetto Life 101

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In the early 90s, teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman recorded a week of their lives on Chicago's South Side. Working with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, LeAlan and Lloyd produced a documentary they called Ghetto Life 101, one of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history. In remembrance of Lloyd, who died this week, we bring you a special presentation of Ghetto Life 101.

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0:00.0	Hey Storycore listeners, Jason Reynolds here.
0:07.0	15 years ago, before I became a writer, I worked as a Storycore facilitator, recording
0:12.1	hundreds of others sharing what was most important to them.
0:15.4	I saw firsthand that every single person has a story.
0:20.4	Storytelling is about bearing witness, it's about seeing and being seen.
0:25.2	One of the first times I grasped this was in the early 90s when I was just a kid, and
0:29.5	I heard a public radio documentary where two teenagers from the South Side of Chicago
0:34.7	spent a week reporting on what it was like to grow up in and around the Ida B. Wells
0:39.2	housing project.
0:40.2	My name is Liyal and John, I'm 13 years old.
0:44.5	This is Liyal and I'm 42 years old.
0:46.5	So take me on a little journey through my life.
0:50.9	Let's go, let's go.
0:52.9	Let's go.
0:53.9	Hold the bus.
0:54.9	Hold the bus.
0:55.9	Hold the bus.
0:56.9	Hold the bus.
0:57.9	Hold the bus.
0:58.9	Hold the bus, please.
1:03.4	Liyal and Lloyd called their documentary, Getto Life 101, and they worked with Storycore
1:08.4	as founder Dave Isay to make it.
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