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...mixed city like Boston, an urban radio has less potential to become a home for black community but more potential to serve as a sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners. A successful FM urban radio station in Boston could become a significant community institution, a meeting place for the two sides of the racial divide...
...activist '60s, many suburban whites cared (even if rather naively) about the problems of urban blacks; in the materialistic '90s, suburban whites, like urban blacks and just about everyone else, care mostly about themselves...
...large urban FM could expand this market to suburban kids like me, who nationally are the number one buyer of rap records. When Chuck D of Public Enemy said that rap is "the black CNN," he meant that it was a way for blacks to get information from other black communities; by bringing this information to white suburban teens (most of whom don't watch white CNN), black artists, with the help of urban radio stations, have the potential to make the country's most serious social problems meaningful to the nation's next generation of leaders...
Neither do an alarming number of her peers. In contrast to their overburdened counterparts in private and suburban schools, students in Boston's 11 public district high schools give homework such a low priority that many no longer bother to carry a backpack. Frustrated teachers say often only a handful of students turn in homework, making it nearly impossible to discuss course material. The Boston Globe reported that as many as 20% of teachers have, in response, simply stopped assigning homework. "Peculiar to urban high schools is the notion that homework is an imposition," laments Boston High English teacher Riza...
PROTECTING THE FORESTS Your article on the need to preserve the world's wooded areas [HEROES FOR THE PLANET: FORESTS, Dec. 14] justifiably charged timber interests, population growth and suburban sprawl with reckless forest destruction. However, you should have included the illegal drug trade as one of the culprits. For years drug cultivators have claimed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Environmental organizations should adopt rigorous antidrug policies that compel government accountability and stem lethal drug cultivation. F. ANDY MESSING JR. Executive Director National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...