216: Give the People What They Want
Jul 12, 2002
Stories of people who go to great lengths to give people what they want, and how they're rewarded sometimes, misguided other times.
- Milton Reid works as a freelance muralist in one of the largest housing projects in America, Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. For fifty to two hundred dollars, he'll paint a mural on a resident's living room wall, or in their kitchen, or in the bathroom. He explains that when he first started, all his clients wanted were black and gold panthers, but their tastes have gotten more varied. (8 minutes)
