03.13.2009 1:12 pm

A new book explores the reasons for inner-city poverty

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I think we all can agree that race relations have improved. A continuing debate is why the improvement has not had more of an impact on the nation’s ghettos. Why does inner-city poverty seem to be such an intractable problem?…

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Tags: book review, ghetto, More Than Just Race, poverty, race, Richard Thompson Ford, William Julius Wilson

02.01.2009 5:26 am

Black America: State of the race

By Darryl Swint

By Kurt Greenbaum and Darryl Swint

Barack Obama’s election brought a question to the minds of some Americans: Is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream fulfilled? Are we now blind to race? Some say yes, some say not yet.…

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Tags: African Americans, black, Black America, Black-owned businesses, Darryl Swint, education, health, health insurance, home ownership, income, jobs, marital status, marriage, population, post-racial society, poverty, racism, State of the Race

A new book explores the reasons for inner-city poverty

Black America: State of the race

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