So they made their own party, "a separate reality," he said, to the hard work, racism and stark poverty.

In major cities of developing countries there exist pockets where technologies of the modernized world-computers, cell phones and satellite television-exist right alongside stark poverty.

In our own backyard, we witness a failed war on poverty and the cost to a drowning health care system when stark poverty and racism ravage families.

The Federal agency, created in 1938 to assist the poorest farmers, hired talented photographers and sent them around the country to document the Depression's stark poverty.

Mehboob was born in Mattancherry, Kingdom of Cochin, into a family beset with stark poverty.

Seeing the stark poverty of a village in Kenya was a primary motivator behind the formation of the Nobelity Project.

The basic bus tour does not try to hide the stark poverty and decay.

Though it was shot in black and white amid the stark poverty of postwar Italy, neither the style nor the searching of "Cabiria" has grown dated at all.

But rather than return, defeated, to the stark poverty and scant opportunities of their homeland, many exchange their tickets for one to New York.

Sprawling and booming, it's a strange conurbation of opulent suburbs set alongside some of the country's starkest urban poverty.