Word: neighborhooding
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...couple of hundred Fallujans who fled the fighting in their town are now living in tents pitched on a dusty lot in a residential Baghdad neighborhood. When I visited Umm Khalid, a sad-looking woman there, she told me that I shouldn't view her as poor. "I am well-educated. I drive my own car," she said, waving her hand around her neatly arranged, well-swept tent as if to compare it with those of her messier neighbors. The proud woman's son Fahad Salaam, 15, was playing in the front yard of the family home in Fallujah...
...white students, an achievement gap that has bedeviled two generations of Topeka educators. On the latest state-administered reading test, for example, 34% of black juniors scored "unsatisfactory," compared to just 13% of whites. Why? Ironically, McFrazier blames the end of desegregation. He argues that the closing of black neighborhood schools--with their traditions, yearbooks, mottoes, fight songs and halls of fame--ripped the centerpiece out of those communities. "It removed support systems," McFrazier says. Black role models--doctors and educators--left the neighborhood and moved to suburban communities, taking their achievement ethic with them. "That lowered expectations," says McFrazier...
...Everyman out of his own idiosyncrasies. His relaxed, chatty raps are littered with arcane references to specific British teenage slang and culture, yet the first album sold 130,000 copies on the Continent. He may represent "the streets," but he's not standing on a class soapbox. His neighborhood was a place where, as he puts it, "the sons and daughters of rich business people mix with sons and daughters of the people on the local estate, and they all spend most of their teens smoking weed and trying to find love or sex." He adds simply...
...responsibilities. I think a writer’s only responsibility is telling the truth as they see it, and even then that’s only for non-fiction writing. I wrote Blue Blood for myself as a way to remember what we do as cops in a bad neighborhood in a big city—it’s a personal memoir, a history...
...death leaves us only with questions to ask. Do you talk about community? What community—your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your country? Do you talk about duty? Social obligation? Morality...