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Michael R. McAdoo...
This thesis is already under attack by some black social scientists. Says Harriette Pipes McAdoo, professor of social work at Howard University: "It blames ghetto people who got out rather than external forces. It sounds good, but there is no empirical data to support it. It's rather ridiculous...
...work ethic and, not least of all, offers personal connections to potential employers. But the migration of successful blacks out of the ghetto has left it populated by the less skilled and the less hopeful. Most ghetto shops and small businesses are run by outsiders. Says Harriet McAdoo of Howard University's Department of Social Work: "Unlike kids in black communities in earlier years, where poor and not- & poor were in the same school together, kids today don't have somebody moving up and out, somebody going to college, somebody as an example...
Michael R. McAdoo contributed to the reporting of this article...
...behind the usual selection of old clothing and jewelry. The Wandering Eye has a costume rental department. For $15 to $25 a day, you can rent out a beaded dress, a ball gown, or a feather boa. And they aren't in demand just at Halloween, says owner Emily McAdoo: "I'm surprised at the evidence of really interesting parties that go on here all year round." She has outfitted groups going to a medieval wedding party and a "Vicars and Tarts" party, as well as the usual Roaring '20s fetes...