When Hyder was 17, he went to Afghanistan. This place that he'd been hearing about his whole life. And he took a tape recorder with him. Then the next summer he went back.
More in Afghanistan
Act One: Field of Interrupted Dreams
One good place to see how this ad hoc response is working is at an abandoned baseball stadium in Athens.
Act Two: Streetwise
Most big grand transformations we go through really come down to a hundred little things that we change about ourselves.
Act Two: In Country, In City
For decades, the writer Alex Kotlowitz has been writing about the inner cities and the toll of violence on young people.
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Harper High School - Part One
We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.
Harper High School - Part Two
Part two of our program on Harper High School in Chicago, where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.