Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...teen and adolescent crowd, the continued existence of WILD (now in its 50th year) and the success of black-oriented programming on local college radio stations-such as this weekend's "history of hip hop" orgy on WHRB--indicate that there is a Boston market for serious urban music...
...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...
...Boston, an urban FM might break the city's unending complacency on racial issues. To take just one example, school busing has been almost entirely phased out, nothing has been put in its place, and nary a whimper of protest has been heard in the past decade. While Jam'n may insist that "the party never stops," the party never started for the Hub's minority children. It is this cycle of complacency that I want to escape; wherever I live next year I hope that it has the type of black musical presence that is both engaging...
...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 Gross. "It's horrifying and deteriorating...