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LeAlan Marvin Jones is an American journalist who lives in Chicago's South Shore. His radio documentaries have received critical acclaim and numerous awards. Jones was the Green Party's 2010 nominee for United States Senate from Illinois. ==Early life== Jones grew up on the South Side of Chicago, a block from the Ida B. Wells housing project. He was raised by his grandparents, Gus and June Jones, in the same house his family had lived in since the 1930s. He was a junior spokesperson for the No Dope Express Foundation, a youth education and anti-drug organization.〔(Ghetto boys heard far beyond slum. ) ''The News.'' February 24, 1995.〕 At the age of 13, Jones and his friend Lloyd Newman created a radio documentary for NPR titled ''Ghetto Life 101''.〔Chaplin, Heather. (Vox populi: An interview with "Sound Portraits'" mike-shy producer, David Isay. ) ''Salon.com'' October 12, 1999.〕 Jones was contacted by David Isay, who was producing a piece on poverty for Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ. The documentary illustrated life in the South Side of Chicago in 1993. The recordings made by the duo centered around interviews with the boys' families, friends, and members of the community.〔(''Ghetto Life 101'' at Sound Portraits ). Retrieved January 2, 2007.〕 The broadcast was well received, and praised for its raw portrayal of life in the projects in Chicago. It won several awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Awards for Excellence in Documentary Radio and Special Achievement in Radio Programming.〔 Jones and Newman made a second documentary in 1994, ''The 14 Stories of Eric Morse'', which explored the backgrounds of the people involved with Eric Morse, a five-year-old boy who was tragically thrown from a fourteenth-story window in the Chicago projects by two older boys.〔(Ghetto Life 101 & Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse at audible.com ). Retrieved January 2, 2007.〕 The documentary premiered on NPR's ''All Things Considered'' in 1996. It won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Peabody Award.〔Terry, Don. (Graduation Ends a Partnership Born in a Chicago Ghetto. ) ''The New York Times.'' June 8, 1997.〕 The two documentaries and further footage from when Jones and Newman were nearing high school graduation were condensed into a book published in 1997 titled ''Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago.'' Jones graduated from Chicago's Dr. Martin Luther King High School in 1997.〔 He studied criminology at Florida State University where he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi in the Spring of 1998 before transferring to Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois in 2001.〔(Biography - LeAlan Jones. ) ''Teaching Multicultural Literacy.''〕 He received a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LeAlan Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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