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Recently, Charney has even expanded the program to target inner-city gang members...

Author: By Erick P. Chan, | Title: Fifth Graders Learn Chess | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...diehard Red Sox fan, but I think I'd rather be watching Steve Avery and Lonnie Smith take the field tomorrow night than Roger Clemens or Wade Boggs (maybe that's just because I know the Boston gang would lose...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Turn on Your TV Sets to Watch an Inspirational Series | 10/25/1991 | See Source »

...tunes ("I love a girl/And then I diss the same one/Because I know there's more where that came from"), and lots and lots of clothes. Clothes in every color of the neon rainbow, clothes with words on them, clothes with Haringesque graffiti on them, gang clothes, dance clothes, nerd clothes, and even one or two items not made of Lycra...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Richochet Mixes Senseless Violena With Gratuitous Sex A Good Night Out | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...such a safe and cliched form of rebellion for the town to fall for. Yes, he rides his cycle without a helmet, but he is just a nice, handsome, kind, brave white boy who doesn't even use profanity in his raps. He is Elvis in gang clothes and sunglasses, but without the talent. The Black sidekicks, on the other hand, literally sit in a garage for three-quarters of the movie, away from the white town, hidden away from the impressionable and seducable white kids...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Richochet Mixes Senseless Violena With Gratuitous Sex A Good Night Out | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...tendency to dismiss black women's complaints as either exaggerations or outright fantasies has grown stronger since the Tawana Brawley fiasco. In that case, a 15-year-old black girl claimed that she had been abducted and raped by a mysterious gang of white men. It turned out that she had cooked up the story. Some feminists believe the doubts about black women's veracity stirred up by Brawley's lies may have led to acquittals in several rape cases in which the victim was a black woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stereotypes of Race | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

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