"Nothing Happens Without Reverberation"
Dawn Trice, Chicago Tribune reporter, has well-stated a truth Woodlawn residents have known for awhile and wish others understood too - "Nothing happens without reverberation". Murder is no exception. I am apt to say the attention Woodlawn has received around the shooting of University of Chicago student, Amadou Cisse, has enlivened the conversation about urban violence on the South Side of the city. But, the truth is, the conversation has been a lively in our community for some time now. But for certain reasons, better-expressed in Trice's piece, there still exists a grave discrepancy - an injustice in most classic of terms - in how and when the news media points its spotlight. Wails of grief cut equally as deep, are equally as tragic, and are equally as loud when one of our resident youth is killed. Even more, for area residents each new wave of grief is coupled with not-too-distant memories of a thriving Woodlawn...
Trice met with long-time, local area residents at the Sunshine office. This is the Tribune report:
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