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How a 'hoodlum' found salvation photographing ghetto life. Born and raised in one of the poorest areas of the United States, Jovan "Bonna" Lamb admits that during his teenage years in Miami's ...
Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The ...
Journalists started using the phrase “hoodlum” to describe the violent youths that plagued San Francisco as early as a Cincinnati Commercial article in 1871. In 1875, Samuel Williams wrote in Scribner ...
The Hoodlum Saint is a drama laid in the period just after World War I up through the 1929 stock market crash and deals with the power of belief in St Dismus, the good thief, to reform all hoodlums.
A little over 60 years ago, “The Hoodlum Priest” hit movie theaters across America. This powerful 1961 black and white movie told the story of Dismas Clark, S.J., and his work with “ex-cons ...
CROWN POINT, Ind. (WISH) – “The Hoosier Hoodlum” and “The Great Depression’s Robin Hood” share a common name, John Dillinger. 82 years ago he was America’s most notorious criminal.