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13 July 2017 Black advocate Jedidiah Brown hanging with his barber just around the corner from his home near 79th St. on Chicago's South Side in the summer of 2017. There are a million tragedies that happen in these communities every day in America. Evictions, police shootings, interpersonal violence, mysterious deaths, disappearances, human trafficking – to just name a few. Most go unsolved and are often not even fully investigated. Life at the bottom in America just isn’t easy. There is often no recourse for people who are poor and unseen. The people who are fighting for folks like George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or Kenneka Jenkins are the people who live in the communities and who understand from past experience that no one else will show up unless they do. This is the other side of the American Dream.