Word: ghettoes
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Young people growing up in America's inner cities need not feel trapped by their ghetto environment, said Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, a noted neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, in a speech at Emerson Hall yesterday...
...wave of Black filmmakers enters the motion picture industry, more and more movies depicting ghetto life are reaching the big screen. Despite the artistic success of directors such as spike Lee and John Singleton though, many filmmakers still fail to present a credible, sympathetic portrait of inner city life. Dealing with life, love and moral issues in the ghetto is hard--and even the best offerings often seem cliched, parodies of what they wish to portray...
...Deep cover, Bill Duke's first release since A Rage in Harlem, serves the genre well. Duke develops his theme--the classic struggle between obligation to the community and obligation to the self--while painting a realistic and vivid picture of the ghetto. In the drug-steeped world of Deep Cover, salvation as well as justice, is at stake...
...verge of the big bust, though, Stevens assignment is terminated in the name of political expediency. Disillusioned--but fabulously wealthy--Stevens makes a desperate choice, and his ongoing odyssey through ghetto drug culture becomes a search for meaning and redemption, a chance to make a difference...
Duke paints his picture of the inner city in angry colors. As the violence of a mad world unfolds on the screen, the power of an angrier sound track envelops us. The bleakness of the ghetto, reflected in the poignancy of the characters' lives, overpowers the audience...