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...clothes in 1995 from a two-story walkup in Manhattan's Washington Heights, had no department-store distribution when it grossed $36 million last year and was commissioned to design a 20-piece collection for The Lost World. But more than half the new street labels aren't really ghetto startups. They're vanity labels from music personalities like Wu-Tang, Simmons, Shaquille O'Neal (who also has his own record company, TWIsM, for The World Is Mine) and Chuck D. It's a Disney-like cross-pollinating strategy that, if it holds, can only lead to Wu Cafes...
...Clinton's second Inaugural Address and this year's State of the Union speech. And, Penn also found, they were "quite open to taking another look at race in America." So he suggested creating a second Kerner Commission, the quasi-independent body appointed by President Johnson to investigate the ghetto riots of the late 1960s. It produced the oft-quoted line about America's being "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." But it also called for creating 2 million jobs and building 6 million housing units, not the kind of direction the fiscally conservative Clinton was likely...
Blondie learned a lot, very quickly. Beating a suspect into a confession? O.K. Stealing from a bad guy? Fine. But he also learned that even the shadow world had its rules. "The first is, keep it in the ghetto. In the good areas, you don't go stopping people without cause," he says. "Second, you don't take money to let a criminal enterprise continue. And third, you don't frame an innocent person." Blondie says he and his crew never "planted stuff" on an innocent person. If he were that kind of cop, he insists, "then we would have...
...Ghetto D Master P. No Limit...
Blacks are equally ill-served by depictions of them as poverty-stricken ghetto dwellers. The 1968 Kerner Commission report famously declared that America was in danger of becoming "two societies...separate and unequal." In the hysteria following the 1968 riots, the Thernstroms say, the commission overlooked data showing that blacks had been making substantial strides. And 29 years later, they assert, it is clear that blacks gained more ground in education, income and other areas before the civil rights movement and affirmative action than they have since. In fact, the first signs of actual slippage emerged around 1970. The commission...