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...felt guilty for not being back home in Detroit, where family members struggled to pay the rent and—it seemed—someone was always...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Old Ties, Wearing New Ones | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Back home in his Detroit neighborhood, music blared in the streets. Old folks chatted on their front steps, and men squatted on the curb to play dice...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Old Ties, Wearing New Ones | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...When he goes back to the streets of Detroit, Barnhill says, he can see the influence his success has had on his younger brother and his cousins...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holding Old Ties, Wearing New Ones | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...parents told me, you shouldn’t do that, you shouldn’t wear these things, and I say, ‘No, I’m from Detroit, I’m going to show these kids who I am and where I’m from...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Learning To Live by Harvard’s Rules | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...could represent Detroit, he decided, in a collared shirt...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Learning To Live by Harvard’s Rules | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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