Word: ghetto
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...History Month by watching Glory. When Barry was arrested for cocaine possession last month, Hooks' most visible reaction was that the mayor had been the victim of a plot by law enforcement to persecute black elected officials. Presumably, the mayor of the nation's capital (not exactly an unemployed ghetto youth, but, absurdly, a role model for unemployed ghetto youths) is not responsible for being in a hotel room with a fashion model, smoking crack. A white conspiracy must have put a pistol to his head and made him do it. Hooks' reaction harmonized with something the late Whitney Young...
...past few years, Holiday has finally been getting the kind of national attention that she deserves. In 1981, Baltimore unveiled a statue of Lady Day four blocks west of the black ghetto where she grew up; in 1986 a "Billie Holiday" star was placed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame; and this January, Maryland has started its first annual Billie Holiday Jazz Singer's Competition...
...Francisco's Glide United Methodist Memorial Church, pin the drug epidemic on "a group of whites somewhere" who think blacks are getting too much political power. Others charge that the U.S. Government developed AIDS to wipe out blacks, testing it on homosexuals before unleashing it in the ghetto. More widespread is the view, put forth by Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that genocide will inevitably occur because the U.S. Government is not doing enough to stanch the flow of drugs. Says Lowery: "If the powers that be really wanted to deal with this issue, they wouldn...
...Drug sales are largely concentrated in the ghetto, where they exacerbate violence so ingrained that homicide is the leading cause of death for young black males...
...dispute goes back to 1983, when Paramount agreed to buy the rights to Buchwald's proposal It's a Crude, Crude World, a tale of an African royal who ventures to the U.S. and falls in love in a Washington ghetto. Paramount renamed it King for a Day and began developing it as a vehicle for Eddie Murphy, but abandoned the project two years later, having paid Buchwald a total...