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Detroit: An American Ghetto Where a House Costs Less Than a Car

Bryce Covert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Poverty, Unemployment, New Deal 2.0, Middle Class, Detroit, Gm, Henry Ford, American Dream, Ghetto, Business News
Bryce Covert

Once our pride and joy, Detroit now reminds us of how far off track our economy has gone and how downtrodden the middle class is.

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Prioritizing People or Space?

Rabah Ghezali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ghetto, Politics News, Urban Policies, Third World America, Foreclosure, Ethnicity, Housing, Real Estate, Discrimination, Poverty, Urban Planning, Politics News
Rabah Ghezali

The foreclosure crisis highlighted the failure of our current urban policies. And now, it's affecting all of us.

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Jezebel To HuffPost Blogger: 'Literary Critic Hates Vaginas'

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jezebel, Junot Diaz, American Writers, Oscar Wao, Ghetto, Poll, Overrated Writers, Anis Shivani, Books News

Over the weekend, Huffington Post blogger Anis Shivani posted "The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers," which quickly became hot on Twit...

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Charlie Rangel Begat Ed Towns: Something Is Broken In Brooklyn, Too

Kevin Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ghetto, Ed Towns, Power, Charlie Rangel, Black America, Brooklyn, Ethics, New York News
Kevin Powell

Did Mr. Rangel begat the lack of ethics also present in the career of his colleague, friend, and staunch ally Congressman Edolphus "Ed" Towns of Brooklyn, New York?

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Define "Urban Lit" ...

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Urban Policy, Ghettos, Ghetto, American Literature, Black, Reading, African Americans, Urban, Style News
Charles D. Ellison

Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...

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Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aliens, South Africa, District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Sci-Fi, Peter Jackson, G.I. Joe:the Rise of Cobra, Lord of the Rings, Afrikaans, Ghetto, Johannesburg, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

"I felt like half of my mind wanted to make some serious film about these topics and the other half wanted to make a bloody genre film, "said Blomkamp. "And then I thought maybe I'll be able to do both."

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The Unteachable Lesson: Can We Learn From Gates and Crowley?

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Racial Discrimination, James Crowley, Hate Crimes, Gates Arrest, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Ghetto, Cambridge Police, Rnc, Obama-Crowley, Black Men, Discrimination, Republican Party, African Americans, Po Po, Michael Steele, Obama-Gates Defense, Rush Limbaugh, Politics, Obama Crowley Gates, Harvard Professor, Barack Obama, Racism, Racial Profiling, Culture, African American, Sean Hannity, White Men, Police, Sergeant Crowley, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Obama-Gates Arrest, Hate, Racialism, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."

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Oh, That's How He Talks!

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Talking White, Obama Racism, Black America, Racism, Nader Talk White, Ghetto, Jesse Jackson, Articulate, Ralph Nader, Politics News
Sam Greenfield

Nader said that Obama has to 'talk white' in order to win. Does that mean with a stereotypical patois? Does that mean sans ghetto? Regardless, he doesn't grasp that the nation is turning brown.

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