Word: underclasses
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...Farrakhan: Fox sees blacks as a permanent underclass. We see our people as struggling. If you look in some of the factories you have Mexicans there because they will work for less than what the black brother will work for. They're being used to break unions. Corporate America is delighted because that increases the bottom line. It's not the fault of the Mexicans but the greed of corporate America and the need of Mexicans and Latinos to find work...
Among the underclass in America's urban ghettos, the trends are especially disturbing. Nearly half of black females in the U.S. are pregnant by age 20. The pregnancy rate among those ages 15 to 19 is almost twice what it is among whites. Worse still, nearly 90% of the babies born to blacks in this age group are born out of wedlock; most are raised in fatherless homes with little economic opportunity. "When you look at the numbers, teenage pregnancies are of cosmic danger to the black community," declares Eleanor Holmes Norton, law professor at Georgetown University and a leading...
...does Gerry, but Sayer's resilience is the bedrock of the story. There's a charm and grace (and goofiness) in the adolescent Sayer, whose telling evokes the quiet dignity Henry Lawson found a century ago in the "sallow faces" and "weary feet" of the underclass...
...executives on Nashville's Music Row. It was Rich, along with partner Big Kenny Alphin, who came up with the Mafia acronym (Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance) and slogan ("Music without prejudice") and showed the group members how to turn their individuality into hits, co-writing Gretchen Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly lewd Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) for his own duo, Big & Rich. Now Rich is putting his skills behind an act that tweaks Nashville's two greatest taboos--race and musical tradition--and he can barely contain himself. "Cowboy Troy is the only...
...international film. The planet's largest annual trade show, photo op and schmoozathon, Cannes this year welcomed movies from Cambodia and Korea, Hungary and Kurdish Iraq. Films that will never become Sith-size hits win Cannes' Palme d'Or - as L'Enfant, another dour view of the Belgian underclass by the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, did at Saturday night's closing ceremony. But the festival organizers, like the rubberneckers outside the Palais, are smitten by star quality. Sharon Stone, one of the few Hollywood actresses adept at radiating that old-time sexual allure, was seen and photographed everywhere...