Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Yummy: the last days of a Southside shorty

This true story, told in graphic novel format, tells the tragic tale of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year-old boy from the Roseland neighborhood in Chicago. Yummy, nicknamed for his love of sweets, was an inner city kid who became the poster child for gang violence in1994 when he joined the Black Disciples street gang and became both a perpetrator and a victim in a shooting that made national headlines.

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