Word: bronx
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...tell them they'll be rich," he admits. "Or even comfortably well-off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a cheer for it. In an age when the two- candidate presidential race is no longer something to count on, a good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would peel off for third parties...
Price himself grew up in a lower-middle-class Jewish family in the projects in the era of black leather jackets and greaser hair. Today the kid from the Bronx is on a roll. Houghton Mifflin paid $500,000 for Clockers, and Universal Pictures is putting up $1.9 million for the film rights and a screenplay Price will write. Two more Price-scripted movies, Mad Dog and Glory and Night and the City, both starring Robert De Niro, are set for release this year. Earlier Price credits for The Color of Money and Sea of Love helped...
Mean streets have fascinated Price since his days in the Bronx. He based his first novel, The Wanderers, a violence-laced cult classic about teen gangs that he wrote while a graduate student at Columbia, on the working-class kids he knew in the projects. Price drew on similar material for Bloodbrothers, another stunning tale of working-class Bronx brawlers. But he was never really part of the violence. "I was a member of the Goldberg gang -- we walked down the street doing algebra," he says in an interview in the lower-Manhattan loft he shares with his wife...
Such sentiments are a long way from the conciliatory goals of the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, where Souljah, then known as Lisa Williamson, worked for a time before making her detour into rap. Born poor in the Bronx, she has made a determined effort to educate herself, reading black-history books and studying at Cornell and Rutgers. In her previous incarnation, she performed good works like founding a summer camp for inner-city children. Those are accomplishments for which Souljah, by most accounts a young woman with the interests of the black community at heart...
...well the system worked in the bad old days before reformers blessed the nation with openness and primaries. In one of the most vivid of this book's procession of vivid tales, McCullough recounts how the Democratic bosses and party elders -- led by Ed Flynn of the Bronx -- concluded in 1944 that Franklin Roosevelt was unlikely to survive another term and that the overly progressive Henry Wallace had to be dumped from the ticket. In the proverbial smoke-filled rooms at the Chicago convention, with Roosevelt paying little heed from afar, they decided that the reliable Senator from Missouri...