Cspan leon dash, who was Rosa Lee Cunningham . Guest Rosa Lee Cunningham was a woman that i met in a dc jail in january, 1988 and who i followed until her death from aids in july 1995. Cspan whos the fellow in the picture here . Guest thats her oldest son he also died of aids. He died in january. Bobby cunningham. He died in january, 1994. Cspan why did you do this book . Guest i was interested in whats happening with the underclass the american underclass. I had read studies by the urban institute that said that the underclass in size has tripled in the United States since 1970 and i was interested in the reasons why, and why it was perpetuating itself. Why this poverty a very deep and distressful poverty as well as criminal deviancy was going on from one generation to the next so i went into the dc jail literally in the summer of 1987 and interviewed, over an 18 month period, 20 men and 20 women inmates who fit the profile the urban institute had established of what constitutes an un
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going to have my cell phone, i tried resisting that, although they did take it, that s when he assaulted me. we have a portaco for our services and at the bank we are sometimes mistaken to be the bank next door. reporter: the robbers moved on from here to to a sun trust bank where a shot at a bystander, no one was hurt there had. calvert county authorities hope security video may lead them to suspect who s are still on the loose. i m peggy fox in fairfax county where there appears to be growing support for a meals tax to help pay for schools. residents who attended dialog meetings want to consider a meals tax and bring back a registration fee gle to raise avenue in other aspects other than property taxes. reporter: but a meals tax would require a referendum and there s little support for that. fees for students. the school is considering charging atheletes $100 per student per sport. kids need athletics. that athletics are a great thing, especially at the high schoo
in the side of a metro train this afternoon, which was stopped at the platform here at the gallery place chinatown station. metro says it happened when the injured boy was involved in a fight with another teenager when he was pushed around 3:30 this afternoon. they also, the metro says, that out boy did not fall into the bed of the tracks just to the side of the train and fell to the platform. the teen is recovering, receiving minor injuries at the hospital. the red line trains were taking turns at one point sharing the tracks. that s where most of the delays happened, about 45 minute delays but we can say right now at the 6:00 hour no delays, red line is back on schedule. live here in the district, 9news now and wusa9.com. thanks. more than two dozen metro access employees fired for using their cell phones behind the wheel have gotten their jobs back. the reprieve was made possible because of a loophole in their union contract. audrey barnes joins us live. metro s zero