A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...
"For Lefenus Pickett, what began as a routine ride home on SEPTA's Route 47 bus became a near-death experience June 18 when a woman who took offense at his parenting advice called friends who strafed the loaded bus with semiautomatic weapons fire in North Philadelphia. A Philadelphia courtroom was... Read more...
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03/08/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
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Chicago kids under the age of 12 would have to be in the house by 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, under a curfew crackdown proposed by three South Side aldermen Wednesday to rein in "unsupervised" children. Public Safety Committee Chairman Michelle Harris (8th) joined Aldermen Toni ... Read more...
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21/07/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Documentary,
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When Hurricane Katrina devastated one of New Orleans’ oldest public housing developments, families were displaced and job opportunities became scarce. Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group joined with an experienced developer, McCormack Baron Salazar, to destroy the neighborhood and displ... Read more...
LET’S stipulate this upfront: Everybody hates motorists who run red lights or who speed recklessly. Hence most people support those traffic cameras perched on roadsides in hundreds of municipalities all over the country, flashing retribution at offending drivers. Or shall we say, most peopl... Read more...
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01/07/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge,
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The only thing that stands between the children of your community receiving an excellent education or not is your involvement, or lack of it, in their education. Will you join the Million Father March? It is easy! It does not take much time. It does not take much money. We give you ev... Read more...
A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of "stop and frisk" searches by city police, a high-profile part of the mayor's efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday. Authorities also will take additional steps to make sure the stops are only ma... Read more...
…He was a dark, grim man wit’ jet black hair wit’ a patch o’ gray in the front o’ it; he always wore a buzz cut. He had dark, beautiful, rich skin with these piercin’ hazel eyes. Lookin’ into his eyes, you can see there was so much pain in his soul. He had a scar down his face throug... Read more...
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20/05/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge,
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The percentage of new teachers in New York City public schools who are black has fallen substantially since 2002, dropping to 13% in the last school year from 27% in 2001-02, city figures show. The change has dramatically altered the racial makeup of the new teacher workforce, which last year inclu... Read more...