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From May through July of 2002, Gates traveled to four disparate regions of the United States—the deep South, Chicago??s inner-city, the East and Los Angeles—in search of a representative sample of the black community that, collectively, could provide an answer to this question...
...celebrities such as Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Alicia Keys, Chris Tucker and Jesse Jackson, Gates also interviewed the not-so-famous, such as Army Sergeant Major Kenneth Wilcox, based at Fort Benning in Georgia, and Kalais Chiron Hunt (a.k.a. Eric Edwards), a prisoner in Chicago??s Cook County Jail...
...most moving interviews he says, were done with the prisoner Eric Edwards and the Massenbergs, a family living in the notoriously crime-ridden Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago??s South Side. “They were so extraordinarily articulate about the forces arrayed against them in the inner city that I learned so much and I was very deeply moved,” Gates says...
...University of Chicago??s senior project manager, Kenneth D. Park, said that Chicago??s is the largest set of bells built at any one time and that lowering 53 of the bells from the 10-story tower for repairs will take about two months
Using data from Chicago??s public schools, they correlated unusual patterns of answers within a single classroom, as well as unusually high scores in specific classrooms, with a high likelihood of teacher cheating...