‘Postcards from Pine Bluff’: The Story of a Southern City in Decline – Feature Shoot

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‘Postcards from Pine Bluff’: The Story of a Southern City in Decline – Feature Shoot

Kareem Bearden works the night shift at a drive-thru liquor store on the outskirts of Pine Bluff. Mr. Bearden moved to town a few years ago from Milwaukee, Wisconsin when…

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“About 45 minutes south of Little Rock, things have come undone.”

It is with this statement that William Widmer introduces us to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a small city of just under 50,000 now infamous for its poverty and crime