This document provides interviews and field research from a neighborhood in North Philadelphia known as "Beirut". It discusses the history of gun violence in the area from the 1960s to present day and profiles several community members, including young rappers, mothers, store owners, and a retired police detective. It also announces the death of 19-year-old Taron Andrews, who took his own life, and remembers his love of basketball and using rap music to express himself.

2. July 2, 1964

4. NORTH PHILADELPHIA TWO MONTHS LATER

14. Bullets rip a hole in history

15. 1968-1973

16. 1975-1981

17. 1986-1993

18. 1999-2006

19. 2011

22. NORTH PHILADELPHIA THE PRESENT

23. The following presentation is based on verbatim interviews, images and field research primarily conducted in a small North Philadelphia neighborhood adjacent to Temple's main campus, known by local residents as "Beirut."

25. Beirut Boys

26. Ron Ron Rap

28. SOUNDS OF THE CITY

29. Dorothea Bigsby

32. Penelope Jordan Giles

33. Betty Jackson

34. Young Girls Mothering

40. If I had to do it all over again

42. Alice Long

44. Naporsha Evans

46. In Philly A WINTER REVELATION

49. Renee Arlene King

55. Rabbi Michael Holzman Congregation Rodeph Shalom

56. Renee Arlene King

57. THE CORNER STORE

59. Renee Arlene King

60. Eleanor Jordan

61. Dorothea Bigsby

64. Detective Austin PPD Narcotics Division, Retired

67. Taron Andrews (aka Ron Ron) takes his own life

70. Jalisa

74. He had a great future ahead of him. Taron enjoyed basketball and rap music through which he expressed himself.

75. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Teresa, father Daryl, step-mother Dawn, stepfather Jamal,

77. Sorrowfully submitted: The Family.

78. Taron Allen Andrews 1989 - 2008