Scars of the Soul: Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises

In a bit of irony that by no means escapes him, critic and journalist Lewis came of age at a time and in a place that also saw the rise of a worldwide phenomenon. The time was the rise of hiphop, and the place was the Bronx, and Lewis, streetwise and edgy by habit more than anything else, was in the midst of the world of Russell Simmons, the Black