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Ever since he was Governor of California, Ronald Reagan has had to fend off charges that he is insensitive to black concerns. In 1980 his problems with blacks were evident at the polls: he captured only about 9% of their vote. Events last week put him on the defensive again...
Reagan may not have a racist bone in his body, as his aides insist, but his philosophical antipathy to federal activism, whether it takes the form of social spending or statutory redress, is at odds with the kind of government leadership that blacks have come to expect. His budget cuts...
The last survivor of a wave of young, reformist big-city mayors elected in the 1960s, White initially brought an adventurous spirit to his aging, industrial home town. Armed with ambitious plans to build a "worldclass city," he sparked a downtown renaissance. It seemed too good to last, and it...
The relentless stresses of poverty and ghetto life have also been associated with higher health risks. Studies of poor black neighborhoods in Detroit and Boston have correlated hypertension, which is twice as common among American blacks as among whites, with overcrowded housing and high levels of unemployment and crime. Research...
Among the most fervent of Ronald Reagan's campaign supporters were far-right special-interest groups, particularly antiabortion activists. Yet the Reagan Administration has worked only halfheartedly in Congress for laws that would permit organized school prayer, stop busing and ban abortion, and none of that social agenda has...