Ghetto Life 101 is a 30-minute radio broadcast documentary exploring the lives of residents of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

It was created by teenagers LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman and produced by David Isay for National Public Radio.

The broadcast footage was recorded by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, who were thirteen and fourteen, respectively, at the time.

[1] Jones and Newman made a second documentary, Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse,[2] which explored the backgrounds of people involved with Eric Morse, a five-year-old boy who was thrown from a fourteenth-story window in the Chicago projects by two older boys, after he refused to steal candy for them.

The two documentaries and further footage from when Jones and Newman were nearing high school graduation were condensed into a book published in 1997 entitled Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago.