Description: Roxbury Community College suffers from budget cut, enrollment drop, and chiefly a crisis of confidence in president Walter Howard. Students rally to save the school. Campus, photo of Howard.
Description: Leslie Harris, an attorney with Roxbury Defenders Committee, describes his work seeking justice for those accused, sometimes unfairly, by police in the street drug war. Lawyers in conference room.
Description: Public defender Leslie Harris spends typical day in Roxbury District Court in administrative runaround and ushering client through bail hearing. Judge Julian Houston. Sound of door slamming.
Description: Public defender Leslie Harris talks about confusion of getting cases through Roxbury District Court. This includes delays; missing defendants, witnesses and victims; making deals with prosecutors. Courtroom.
Description: Touching reactions from friends and classmates of 11 year old Charles Copney, killed on a Saturday evening on Highland Avenue, Roxbury, in a shooting that also killed a teenager.
Description: Roxbury environs. Dudley Square, Warren Street, Orchard Park. Old homes, historic photos.Townhouses being renovated. Photo of architect Philip Johnson. Chadwick Lead Works building, Custom Tower. (1984)
Description: Murder hotline established at Roxbury YMCA to gather tips to capture killer(s) of nine black women. Interview with Sgt. Murphy about community reaction. Rotary dial telephone.
Description: On Good Friday, parishioners and clergy march through Roxbury past sites of violence in a pilgrimage of hope for the community. Stations of the cross.