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That's when Stroupe took over the church. He was 36 years old then, a youthful, activist minister who had campaigned hard for prison reform in Norfolk, Virginia, and elsewhere. But the decrepit physical state of the 62-year-old church and the demoralized yet intransigent spiritual condition of some of the Oakhurst congregation initially startled and depressed him. "The white people who stayed at the church wanted things done their way," Stroupe recalls. "And the blacks weren't talking, but it was clear they wanted some changes." What intrigued Stroupe, and made him stay on, was that the congregation...
Trapped in a destructive marriage to the sadistic, decrepit Jabe Torrence (Sam Baum), she spends sleepless nights "coupled with death." Pledged to live together in sickness and mutual hate, they refuse to lie to one another, yet they refuse to acknowledge the truth...
...until two years ago, says Handy, the brick structure was not only decrepit but crawling with rats and mice and "roaches so big you could feel the critters move under your foot." Academically, the school, which serves 2,051 students -- prekindergarten through the eighth grade -- was in just as bad shape. On any given day, he relates, a significant number of the kids were on "disciplinary removal," hanging out unsupervised and causing trouble on the block. "I would intervene in a street fight four or five times a week," says Handy. "Every morning the white students, especially the girls, would...
Great expectations bewitch the slum of Cite Soleil. Markets and workshops are springing up as residents revel in their release from fear. People are chipping in pennies to buy paint and new fluorescent lights to spruce up their decrepit neighborhood. "Since he is the President of the people, I'm sure he won't leave us in the street," says Tiol Losa, a carpenter whose home was one of 1,300 leveled last December by soldiers who tore through the neighborhood on a rampage of revenge. "When Aristide comes, we'll be able to eat," says Mona Numa, a mother...
Torn between a desperate plight and a radical plan, the parents, teachers and politicians who jammed the decrepit Hartford Board of Education building in Connecticut last week agonized over their chance to make history...