“My Gang Is Jesus”
Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.
Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.
Alex Cuadros Harper's Jan 2020 30min Permalink
A day in the economic life of the Nairobi’s Kibera, the largest shanty-town in Africa.
The Economist Dec 2012 15min Permalink
The same forces that put his family in the slum also gave him the golf course on the other side of the wall, and the teachers and sponsors, and the strange ability to hit a ball with a club. But it still doesn't make sense. Sometimes it seems as if fate is wrestling with itself, making sure the circumstances of his birth are always conspiring to take away whatever gifts might allow him to escape it. He lives in two worlds, each one pulling away from the other. Anil is in the middle, trying to keep his balance.
Wright Thompson ESPN Dec 2011 25min Permalink