Tag: Poor
The Rural Initiative: Set the Example, Be the Example
Changing Our Narrative
By MeShonya Wren-Coleman, Ph.D.
So many of us have come from poverty-stricken rural areas. Not much was expected of us. Some of...
Urban Neighborhoods: The Lines Between Race and Class Are Blurring
By: Richard Florida
America’s cities have changed considerably over the past half century, in ways that challenge and confound our theories for understanding them.
Back in...
Court Fines Paid In Blood If You’re Poor And Living In...
Though it’s easy to give Florida an endless amount of shit for its equally endless display of downright Floridian ridiculousness, such mockery often leaves...
Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson Reflects On The Watts Riots 50 Years...
Speaking at the historic Macedonia Baptist Church in the Los Angeles, California community of Watts, on the eve of the 50th year observance of...
KEVIN MAXWELL’s CORA
On a late Sunday evening and at the invitation of indie film writer and director, Kevin Maxwell, I stopped by the movie set of...