ghetto

In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

He has spoken of how Palestinian artists lived in a "cultural ghetto" and how he was influenced by a book showing works of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“He could relate to my problems, my environment. The drive, the determination, not to give in to the ghetto, to make something of my life, stems from my relations with him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

He has faced a concerted challenge from singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine, 43, who styles himself the "ghetto president", after his stronghold in a slum where he grew up in the capital, Kampala.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

I went slowly to the ghetto and stood in the shadow of a doorway, watching our deserted section of fence for a long time before approaching it.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Ms. Joselit vividly captures Kaplan’s fervor to fulfill his self-appointed life mission to prod American Jews forward from their 19th-century diaspora ghettoes into the freedoms of 20th-century America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Almost every newspaper and TV station has an environment desk, but in most organisations they are neglected ghettoes outside the more prestigious political and economic teams.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019

And he did so when ghettoes were in revolt and black Americans had become an object of worldwide fascination.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2015

Over the past decade, as gay people have become more accepted and gay ghettoes have begun to empty out, I’ve noticed that the extremely muscled gay aesthetic has begun to fade away, especially among twenty-somethings.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012

I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Others were played to pass the time in Jewish ghettos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

The Jewish physician survivors were able to tell the histories of Jewish medical resistance in the ghettos and camps.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 9, 2023

"There is a lot of criticism about the format, the concentration of tiny homes grouped together in the same place, forming ghettos," she explains.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023

Economic stimulus packages could have sailed through Congress to bail out those trapped in jobless ghettos through no fault of their own.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander