by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Dec 7, 2010
The richer they get in Manhattan, the more poor people are evicted in Brooklyn. Gary and Virginia have lived at Berkeley Place in lower Park Slope, Brooklyn, for the past 29 years, almost since moving to the United States from Trinidad in the late 1960s. It's a...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Aug 5, 2010
I just gave money to a beggar. Actually, I didn’t give money to a beggar; I gave money to a person. She stopped me as I got off the train this morning at work, begging for a few dollars to buy shoes. She looked like she had been up all night (it was 7am) and I knew...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 28, 2010
Rewind six months to a scene in my senior drama class at Bur Oak Secondary School in Markham. It’s a Friday morning, second period, almost the end of the week. As the students prepare to leave the room, they find the following prompt on the board: “Write a journal...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 26, 2010
The article relates the decision of the author and his group of friends to open an LGBTQ drop-in program which aims to help gay youths through social programming and support groups in Wisconsin. At first they established the center in a two-bedroom apartment in...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 30, 2010
Uncensored is ICP’s magazine that examines the issues of poverty and homelessness in the United States. With in-depth reporting and keen analysis, Uncensored illustrates the impact that economic hardship has on families, and its articles relate the stories, personal...
