Voices From The Hood

Voices from the HoodIt's hard sometimes to comprehend that the netherworld of South Central Los Angeles is not lawless, no matter how many visions of blood-soaked streets and body bags show up on the evening news. Think of it instead as a place with different laws, where a cross look is punishable by death and a toddler may be shot in its mother's arms for wearing shoelaces that are the wrong color. But South Central was a city on fire long before the first building burned in April. To those who...