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Freedman, who spent the 1987-88 school year observing Seward, focuses on English and journalism teacher Jessica Siegel. A self-proclaimed "salvage and reclamation" expert, Siegel, 41, struggles to pull her predominantly black, Hispanic and Asian students into the safety of the middle class. "I put so much energy and...
Take the Harlem School for the Arts, a 25-year-old institution that provides arts education to about 1,300 students a year, most of them black, Hispanic and Asian. It holds a $50,000 NEA grant to fund a special masters voice class for budding opera singers. This grant...
St. Andrew and Tayenaka work for Paramedic Squadron 39 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, a unit that serves a working-class white and Hispanic area within comfortable reach of five hospital emergency rooms. But as time passes each day, one E.R. after another claims saturation and closes down...
The murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images...
The RJR skirmishes galvanized inner-city outrage toward target marketing. In New York City the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church has led whitewashing expeditions through the streets of Harlem to cover up billboards promoting such products. In Chicago a mysterious crusader who calls himself Mandrake has been...