Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang02-01

An 18-year-old gangster stands in a back alley in the Firestone area of North Memphis. He was first pulled into the gang life by Crips before leaving elementary school. {quote}Instead of living around all this inner-city violence,{quote} he says, {quote}I'd like to go to the suburbs, live the American Dream with a white picket fence.{quote}(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

An 18-year-old gangster stands in a back alley in the Firestone area of North Memphis. He was first pulled into the gang life by Crips before leaving elementary school. "Instead of living around all this inner-city violence," he says, "I'd like to go to the suburbs, live the American Dream with a white picket fence." 

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)