Self-healing hood

2010 Hope Awards | Advance Memphis is in an all-out fight against ghetto nihilism | Daniel Olasky

James Allen Walker for WORLD

MEMPHIS—To understand Advance Memphis, you first have to understand its neighborhood—Cleaborn and Foote on the edge of downtown. The residents of Cleaborn/Foote live in decaying bungalows, ramshackle apartments, and squat redbrick housing projects. They live with the daily threat of violence: Telephone poles decorated with teddy bears dot the neighborhood, memorials to murder victims. Drug dealing and prostitution are the neighborhood's traditional enterprises. Its 38126 ZIP Code is one of the poorest in the country. Every societal ill can be found here.

Most of Memphis tries to ignore Cleaborn/Foote. Reporters don't write stories about murders here. A freeway whisks traffic by. The housing projects were due to be demolished and replaced five years ago. For most residents of Memphis' white and wealthy suburbs, Cleaborn/Foote might as well not exist.

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June 19, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 12

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