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...than $50,000 has quadrupled to more than 1 million, and with this increased wealth has come an increase in education, leisure and interest in the arts. Exploiting the new freedom created by the drive for civil rights during the past generation, black artists have escaped from the aesthetic ghetto to which they were once confined, where the patronizing assumption was that they would find inspiration only in their own milieu. As they move from the periphery to the mainstream, they are free at last to follow their various muses. Composer Singleton, for example, cites as models not only Miles...
Black male, 12, wishes to play chess and, somehow, stop the ghetto madness...
...Famous Mockingbird" to fly to the castle and steal back the book for the Lizard people. Icculus delivers a warning, however, that "all knowledge seeming innocent and pure becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed." When Errand Wolf gets the book, he goes into the ghetto of the town to find "The Sloth," the only creature mean enough to kill Wilson. The story then moves to the outskirts of town where a shepherd tells the final chapter of the story. After killing Wilson, the knowledge offered by the book, as Icculus had warned, is corrupted...
...face in a racist and legally prejudicial attempt to make him look more sinister and guilty, to portray him as "some kind of animal," as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Benjamin Chavis put it. A white press critic said the cover had the effect of sending him "back to the ghetto." Others objected to the fact that the mug shot had been altered at all, arguing that photographs, particularly news photos, should never be altered...
...school." By the time Simpson was a junior at U.S.C., he was well along toward becoming the greatest running back college football had ever seen. He was late reporting to the Buffalo Bills training camp because he held out for a bigger salary. "Money means everything to the ghetto kids who don't have any," he explained. "I want to do youth work. If I can show them I got something from sports, they'll respect me. When I was a kid, Willie Mays was my hero. Not because he was a good baseball player. But because...