Monroe, Sylvester

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June 30, 1988

27:14

Sylvester Monroe's New Book Profiles Black Men in Chicago.

Newsweek correspondent Sylvester Monroe. He recently returned to the ghetto housing project in Chicago where he was raised for a reunion with his boyhood friends. He chronicles their successful and failed attempts to escape the ghetto and ghetto culture in his book Brothers.

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