Braddock, PA

Summer Lee grew up wanting to be Malcolm X. Now at age 30, she’s running to be southwestern Pennsylvania’s first black female state representative.

Robert Grey, a young urban farmer with a deep love for his hometown, sows seeds in a Pennsylvania food desert.

Welcome to Braddock, a working-class town whose industrial history threatens to cast a cloud over its future.

Tony Buba and Isaac Bunn are both the children of steelworkers who worked at the Edgar Thomson mill. But that doesn’t mean they grew up breathing the same air.