Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other fellows are Nina Bernstein '70 of The Milwaukee Journal, Bruce Butterfield of The Providence Journal Bulletin, D'Veta Colin of United Press International, Jane Daugherly of The Miami Herald Nancy Webb Hatton of The Detroit News, Derrick Jackson of Newsday, Jan Jarboe of the San Antonio Express News, Albert Landler of The Great Falls Tribune, M.R Montgomery of The Boston Globe, Wendy Ross of The Washington Post, and Jacqueline Thomas of the Chicago Sun Times...
...than tripled, to 5,160, with 21 Congressmen. The most significant gains have been made in city halls. There are some 220 black mayors, 16 in cities with populations of more than 100,000. Blacks run three of the nation's six largest cities-Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit-and Goode is making a strong bid in a fourth...
Black mayors face a special set of problems. They must carefully balance the needs of an often demanding black constituency with those of an often distrusting white ethnic population. Many, such as Detroit's Coleman Young and Newark's Ken Gibson, are charged with the herculean task of reviving decaying urban centers with shrinking tax bases resulting from the "white flight" of residents and the decline of traditional businesses. "Progress," says Gibson, "is maintaining the status quo." Moreover, black mayors often attract limelight that leaves them less margin for unnoticed error. Grouses Hatcher: "Blacks still...
...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 conducted in Massachusetts by Epidemiologist David Jenkins, now on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, showed that the two areas with the highest mortality rates in the state were the Boston black ghetto of Roxbury and the working-class white enclave of South Boston, which...
...sure, not everyone falls to pieces because of the loss of a job or even a spouse. While surveying unemployed workers in the Detroit area, University of Michigan Researcher Louis Ferman found one hard-luck victim who had been successively laid off by the Studebaker Corp. in 1962 when it was about to fold, a truck manufacturer that went under in the 1970s, and more recently during cutbacks at a Chrysler plant. By all accounts, "he should have been a basket case," says Ferman, "yet he was one of the best-adjusted fellows I've run into." Asked...