by admin | Mar 4, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by SEAMO – SEAMONSTERThe “natural” consequence of drastically cutting state budgets, drastically cutting federal support to cities, and then drastically cutting the ability of cities and towns to raise taxes themselves, is simple. Although the...
by admin | Feb 28, 2011 | Black Family, Black Power, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
We all know the story of how cities like Detroit, Gary, and Baltimore became predominantly black. First the businesses fled, then whites with the ability to move to the suburbs. But the black middle class also took flight, and around 1990 or so there was a second...
by admin | Feb 22, 2011 | Education, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by “CAVE CANEM” The Detroit Public School system has been under something like receivership for a while now. Draining students like a sieve (over 80,000 students lost in the last decade), with evidence of significant fiscal mismanagement and...
by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | Urban Politics
Taking a break from writing, I found an interactive feature in the NYT today. A stunning series of portraits, the first sentence: Few American cities have suffered as acutely as Rockford, Ill., where unemployment reached nearly 16 percent last summer. This semester...
by admin | May 28, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for 7-year-old Aiyana Jones last Saturday. On the previous Sunday, May 16, 2010, Jones was killed by Detroit police officers during a raid of a home harboring a 34-year-old suspected of the murder of a 17-year-old high school student....
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