Cleveland Works

I found myself on a street of dead eyes.  People here have all seen life go off and leave them.  Cleveland was one of the toughest places in America for someone young and black to find a job.  One of the roughest for someone of any color. But a program...

The Good Life, Texas Style

In Texas there is an apartment complex so big, it has 26 swimming pools. It is called the Village, a small city really – ten thousand single adults, half of them in their early 20’s, hardly anyone over 34 — young, good looking and well off.  Unfortunately, the...

Wedding Windfall

 In West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there is a legendary love story that has endured for 3 centuries.  Brides receive money from a man they never met simply because they got married.  His name was Julian Poydras.  He died in 1824. Share...

The New Fashioned Way

Loraine Metcalf was on welfare.  Now she lives in a neighborhood of fine homes.  Her daughter does too.  No, they didn’t win a lottery.  They earned it.  The NEW fashioned way.  Their tiny band of Native Americans — called the Siletz —...

Aspen Music

Summer in the high country has a sound all its own.  Mountain streams unlocked by spring.  Animals looking for the sun.  Since 1949, the deer and the chipmunks in this valley have moved to different sounds.  This is the home of the Aspen music festival.  For 9 weeks...