Brothers: Black and Poor -- A True Story of Courage and Survival Paperback – September 13, 1989 by Sylvester Monroe 
 
They came of age during the '60s in a Chicago ghetto, bound by the ties of race, class and culture and dreaming of a better life. Newsweek reporter Sylvester Monroe returns to chronicle the lives of his friends in a stark, brutally honest study of the fate of poor black men in America. HC: Morrow.
 
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