TY - BOOK AU - Dash, Leon. TI - Rosa Lee: a mother and her family in urban America SN - 465070922 AV - E 185.86 .D260 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - New York, NY PB - BasicBooks KW - African American women KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Drug addicts KW - Poor N2 - Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The Kennedy prize board called it a "tour de force" that "sets the standard for reporting about poverty". www.alibris.com ER -