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Need To Know  Revisiting "The Corner"

A visit to "The Corner" in Baltimore, inner city jobs crisis, racial tensions. Details

 

Program: Need To Know

Episode: Revisiting "The Corner"

Scott Simon returns to the inner city community in Baltimore that he first visited last fall to see if recent improvements in the economy are improving the lot of chronically under-employed and unemployed young African-American men there. Vietnamese-American essayist talks about tensions in the inner city of Philadelphia between African-Americans and newly arrived south Asian immigrants.

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Duration: (25:10)
Premiere Date: 03/16/2012
Episode Expires: Thu 16 Mar 2017
TV Rating: NR


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