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...Digga--a.k.a. Rashia Fisher--lives in a rundown apartment complex. The security is spotty (you enter through an unlocked back door) and graffiti line the hallways. Rah herself, who is tall (5 ft. 7 in.) and striking, isn't dressed for ghetto fabulousness just this moment. In fact, she isn't dressed for much of anything. She isn't wearing makeup, and there's a blemish the size of a cigarette burn on her right cheek. Her pajama-clad daughter Sativa, 3, stands behind her, peeking between her mother's legs. They look as if they just...
...perfumy magazines, the Hype Williams-directed videos, the sound-bite TV appearances--all of that seems thin and sugary, like the glaze on a doughnut. Answering the door in a fuzzy bathrobe, that's real, that's true, that's hip-hop. In that one moment in her graffiti-scarred hallway, Rah was as big a star as you've seen in a long time...
Edison focuses on instilling pride and discipline in youngsters who may have known precious little of either. At Edison's Granville Charter School, which opened two years ago in a former government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...
...Some experts in securities law point out that Internet stock-fraud cases are such a new and rapidly evolving area of jurisprudence that it is too soon to tell how judges will treat the SEC's recent wave of them. "Messages on stock bulletin boards are nothing more than graffiti," argues Mark Werksman, a lawyer for one of the California defendants. "Posting them is an exercise in free speech that imposes no clear legal obligation...
...neighborhood has always been a mix, and we've gotten along well," D'Onofrio says. "But now, we have gangs and gang-related graffiti, because the young ones don't know the seniors, members of one [nationality] don't know the other...