Trying to survive on a $1 million block in Philadelphia

The Statistically Predictable and Wholly Tragic Story of Aquil Bickerstaff

It would be wrong to say Aquil Bickerstaff was destined to end up dead or in prison. But like all black men of his generation, the odds were stacked against him. When he was born in 1985, to a working-class family in North Philadelphia, he entered a world that was becoming increasingly hostile to him.