Prince George’s County is a hub of black wealth. But when the housing market cratered, it was not be spared. [...]
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Prince George’s County is a hub of black wealth. But when the housing market cratered, it was not be spared. [...] Flickr: boughtbooks Jane Black wrote a piece recently for the Atlantic discussing the price of eggs at her local farmers market (emphasis mine): My first instinct was that the egg guy was gouging people, like me, who have enthusiastically embraced efforts to build an alternative to our industrial food system. But it turns [...] Roland Fryer (second from left) found that most of the HCZ's success in student performance can be chalked up to its charter schools, and not to the social programs championed by HCZ's founder, Geoffrey Canada (far right). A foundational belief at the Harlem Children’s Zone is that erasing the achievement gap between black and [...]
Postbourgie’s own Shani Hilton has a much-discussed cover story in the Washington City Paper about being a black gentrifier. Freddie at L’Hote has some criticism: This is a several-thousand word article on the relationship between race and socioeconomic class, and about the tensions between old and new residents and poor and rich [...] In a dozen states, felons leave prison saddled with thousands of dollars in debt from child-support payments that continued to accrue while they were behind bars, and that they’ll likely never be able to pay. [...]
Haiti is struggling to rebuild after last year’s catastrophic earthquake and trying to resolve its national elections, but it was thrown another curveball late this weekend: the return of its corrupt and brutal former dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. No one seems to know why he’s back — he says he’s [...] |
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