Chris Hayes: Yeah. She would just look through the window. I still am always. And which she fixed. And demographers have studied this and I think that we still don't really know ultimately. Andrea Elliott: Absolutely. And I hope that she'll continue to feel that way. Mice were running everywhere. Criminal justice. And I think that that's what Dasani's story forces us to do is to understand why versus how. But you know what a movie is. Elliott writes that few children have both the depth of dishonest troubles and the height of her promise., But Dasanis story isnt about an extraordinary child who made it out of poverty. Her hope for herself is to keep, as she's put it to me, her family and her culture close to her while also being able to excel.. Then the New York Times published Invisible Child, a series profiling a homeless girl named Dasani. It is a story that begins at the dawn of the 21st century, in a global financial capital riven by inequality. She loves being first the first to be born, the first to go to school, the first to win a fight, the first to make the honour roll. Like, I would love to meet a woman who's willing to go through childbirth for just a few extra dollars on your food stamp benefits (LAUGH) that's not even gonna last the end of the month." So civic equality is often honored in the breach, but there is the fact that early on, there is a degree of material equality in the U.S. that is quite different from what you find in Europe. Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows reportedly was the longest ever published in the newspaper up to that time. Eleven-year-old Dasani Joanie-Lashawn Coates is a primary caregiver for her seven siblings. WebBrowse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the PALS Plus NJ OverDrive Library digital collection. The only way to do this is to leave the room, which brings its own dangers. We have a period where basically from the New Deal to 1980, inequality in the country shrinks and then the story, as you well know, from 1980 to now is just skyrocketing inequality. It's, first of all, the trust, which continues to exist and is something I think people should support. And, as she put it, "It makes me feel like something's going on out there." There were evictions. Why Is This Happening? is presented by MSNBC and NBC News, produced by Doni Holloway and features music by Eddie Cooper. The Child Protection Agency began monitoring Dasanis parents on suspicion of parental neglect, Elliott says. On mornings like this, she can see all the way past Brooklyn, over the rooftops and the projects and the shimmering East River. Dasani can get lost looking out her window, until the sounds of Auburn interrupt. Chris Hayes: We don't have to go through all of the crises and challenges and brutal things that this family has to face and overcome and struggled through. Journalist Andrea Elliott followed a homeless child named Dasani for almost a decade, as she navigated family trauma and a system stacked against her. Laundry piled up. The difference is in resources. The only way to do this is to leave the room, which brings its own dangers. Others will be distracted by the noise of this first day the start of the sixth grade, the crisp uniforms, the fresh nails. Of all the distressing moments in Invisible Child, Andrea Elliotts book about Dasani Coates, the oldest of eight children growing up in a homeless shelter in New Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. There's a huge separation that happens in terms of the culture that people consume, the podcasts they listen to or don't listen to, the shows they watch. And it's a little bit like her own mother had thought. She felt the burdens of home life lift off her shoulders, giving her the opportunity to focus her energy on schoolwork, join the track team and cheerleading squad, and make significant gains in math. And, you know, this was a new school. This week, an expansion of her reporting comes out within the pages of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.. Dasani described the familys living quarters as so cramped, it was like 10 people trying to breathe in the same room and they only give you five windows, Elliott recalls. Where do you first encounter her in the city? It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. She had a lot of issues. I think that what is so striking about the New York that she was growing up in, as compared to, for instance, the New York of her mother Chanel, also named for a bottle of liquid, (LAUGH) is that Chanel grew up in East Brooklyn at a time when this was a siloed community, much like what you are describing about Henry Horner. And so I have seen my siblings struggle for decades with it and have periods of sobriety and then relapse. She looks around the room, seeing only silhouettes the faint trace of a chin or brow, lit from the street below. And it also made her indispensable to her parents, which this was a real tension from the very beginning. We suffocate them with the salt!. New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott spent nearly a decade following Dasani and her family. You get birthday presents. With only two microwaves, this can take an hour. It happens because there's a lot of thought and even theory, I think, put into the practice. Putting a face on homelessness in 'Invisible Child' | CNN She could even tell the difference between a cry for hunger and a cry for sleep. (LAUGH) She would try to kill them every week. Their voucher had expired. Chris Hayes: Hello. Before that, she had been in and out of shelters with her family. And I had read it in high school. She was invited to be a part of Bill de Blasio's inaugural ceremony. She had been born in March, shattering the air with her cries. I mean, these were people with tremendous potential and incredible ideas about what their lives could be that were such a contrast to what they were living out. But she told me, and she has told me many times since, that she loves the book.
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