Word: ghettoes
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...universal access is now the compelling problem -- and it will only get more acute -- why not address it directly by subsidizing cable TV for poor people, a means-tested "cable stamps" program. After all, public TV began as a Great Society scheme, and Sesame Street was intended to uplift ghetto children. The opera shortage, on the other hand, may no longer be a crisis deserving federal attention...
Boyz was essentially a story of young men trapped in an unyielding ghetto environment, pretty much hopelessly waiting for its endemic, random violence to strike them down. In his new movie he obviously wanted to explore emotional territory new to him. It is about a young woman named Justice (Janet Jackson) in the same setting who is doing her best to keep her options open and her hopes up. She's a hairdresser who finds psychological escape in the poetry she scribbles (actually it is Maya Angelou's work) while mourning the loss of a boyfriend gunned down...
...Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa in 1972 she was cheered by huge throngs, exotic tribal kings and bare-breasted dancers. At home, in the protest years, she met with demonstrators in Los Angeles' Watts ghetto and heard out hostile students on campuses...
...Petersberg, Florida, Bassett, 34, went to Yale Drama School and spent most of her first professional decade shuttling unnoticed between Broadway (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), television (Tour of Duty) and movies (John Sayles' City of Hope). The roles grew meatier -- she played the mother of a troubled ghetto youth in Boyz 'N the Hood and Michael Jackson's mom in abc's The Jacksons: An American Dream -- but she still labored in the shadows until Tina thrust her onto center stage...
...Republic article asserts that Edelman's use of children as her cause belies her true mission to increase welfare aid to poverty- stricken Blacks and ghetto-dwellers...