Tag: poverty

Paris vs Poorest: Occupy the Throne? Or Rip it From its Foundation?

Post author By Maurice Dolberry
Post date February 22, 2012
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Released 47 years to the day after the assassination of Malcolm X, Yasiin Bey offers the video for his counternarrative to Jay-Z and Kanye’s luxury rap, club-banger. Equipped with the glyph and all – the stylized Arabic writing for “Yasiin” flashes on the screen throughout the video – the emcee formerly known as Mos Def goes line for line and concept for concept as he reps/raps for the conditions faced by the “Niggas in Poorest” who couldn’t make the trip to France with the two multimillionaires.

Tags Gil Scott Heron, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Malcolm X, Mos Def, Niggas in Paris, Niggas in poorest, poverty, social inequality

News

Republican school board in N.C. seeks to abolish integration

Post author By aka Tito
Post date January 13, 2011
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The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.

But over the past year, a new majority-Republican school board backed by national tea party conservatives has set the district on a strikingly different course. Pledging to “say no to the social engineers!” it has abolished the policy behind one of the nation’s most celebrated integration efforts.

Tags Diversity, Education, NAACP, poverty, Public Schools, racism, tea party

News

Unemployed or underemployed: College educated families are becoming the new poor

Post author By aka Tito
Post date December 13, 2010
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Come Christmas dinner, Rolanda McCarty, a 36-year-old single mother, usually goes all out.

Her table last year featured a rosemary-and-oil rubbed turkey and a sweet ham. She prepared fresh collard greens according to her grandmother’s recipe. The dessert — a rich butter pound cake — was made from scratch.

But after being laid off from her technical recruiting job in January because of the struggling economy, there will be no fancy holiday feast, no family members pouring into her downsized one-bedroom apartment. She will rely on what she has: canned vegetables and microwavable meals from her community food bank.

Tags college, economy, employment, poverty

Movies Reviews

“Guns, Germs, and Steel: The roots of Inequity” Documentary Review

Post author By aka Tito
Post date September 23, 2009
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Spotted on akaTito’s Blog

A native New Guinean asks, “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?” Cargo in this instance is a reference to general material possessions. The author of this bookdocumentary asserts that the idea of any race being intellectually superior is absurd, but still he is unable to answer the question. Why didn’t the people of New Guinea create metal tools or build large cities?

Tags culture, disease, germs, guns, hunger, poverty, racism, world history