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...Racial tension is certainly not unique to New Orleans. And there are groups and individuals who are reaching across color lines here post-Katrina, as they did before the storm. But the charges of racial discrimination that cropped up during the botched response to Katrina have lingered throughout the protracted and painful rebuilding effort, and two years on, the tension is palpable...
...City council meetings have devolved into shouting matches. Local crime stories on the New Orleans Times-Picayune's web site, which allows readers to post comments, are inevitably followed by a string of missives reeking of barely disguised racial hostility, calling for citizens to arm themselves against the "thugs" responsible for the city's sky-high murder rate. And a string of guilty pleas from corrupt city officials, including one that led to the resignation this month of popular City Council member Oliver Thomas, has elicited charges that white prosecutors are motivated by race; even the somewhat staid Louisiana Weekly...
...City recently doubled sentences for graffiti offenders. Peoria, Ariz., has placed surveillance cameras in graffiti-prone areas. Philadelphia doesn't keep exact stats on graffiti crimes but says the mural-as-peacemaker model has proved its worth. In the late 1990s, the Grays Ferry neighborhood suffered an outbreak of racial violence. Golden believed the divisiveness called for a multiracial mural. Not everyone agreed. "It was a mess, a real mess," recalls Jim Helman, a white neighborhood activist. "And along comes this diminutive little thing [Golden] who promises to do this ridiculous project that turns out to be anything but ridiculous...
...disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown, he tumbled into a severe depression. When he surfaced Roach pushed himself into new endeavors: agitating for racial equality, writing music for playwright Sam Shepard, leading an acclaimed percussionists-only band and irking traditionalists by giving a concert with hip-hop's Fab Five Freddy. Of his restless reinventions, he said, "You can't write the same book twice...
...study aimed to investigate whether the well-known racial disparities in heart attack treatments were the result of bias or some other factor—a lack of treatment options for hospitals frequented by blacks or individual patient preference, for example...