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But until the current leadership vaccum is filled, we can expect more alibis and excuses at the top--and more violence and hopelessness in the ghettoes.

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Affirmative action usually serves only as an additional boost to America's already upwardly-mobile, and doesn't really help the poor. Most who are familiar with welfare-state politics or inner city ghettoes will agree with this assessment.

Author: By Jonathan E. Morgan, | Title: `Getting In' Is No Gain for Blacks | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

Word, Spike. Few groups pulsate with more in-your-face aggression than the four young black men known as Public Enemy, rap music's self-proclaimed "prophets of rage." For the sound track, they concocted Fight the Power, a swaggering mixture of combustive rhythms and rebellious rhymes ("Got to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo! Rap Gets on the Map | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

He talked to us about poverty and ghettoes and trying to give people a chance. He told us what we could do and what our government could do, but wasn't doing, to help the poor.

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: A Tribute to Mickey Leland | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

The real forces of revolution were anger, frustration -- and demography. In the U.S., rage focused on the impersonal machinery of a military adventure that the post-World War II generation did not support and that few seemed capable of affecting. Rage also targeted an inert political system, manned by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

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