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Hope or Hype in Harlem?
This publication examines the Harlem Children's Zone, which is the "model for President Obama's signature anti-poverty program, Promise Neighborhoods." While there has been an abundance of press on the project, little has been done to examine if the HCZ is working, and what, if any, impact it has on the area. The City Limits team seeks to answer those questions.
Tags: Harlem; poverty; Obama; Harlem Children's Zone; low-income; Great Society; government programs
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Central Park Jogger
An ABC investigation reveals that a serial rapist, Matias Reyes, has confessed to raping the Central Park Jogger, a 28-year old attractive investment banker who in 1989 was found in coma after her nightly jog. Reyes has also confessed to raping four other women and murdering one of them. After the broadcast, a judge vacated the convictions of the Harlem teens who had been imprisoned for years as rapists in the Central Park Jogger case.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; DNA evidence; teenagers; gangs; justice; courts; African Americans; blacks
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Policing the Police
The American Prospect reports on police abuse of citizens and examines the potential of civil law to influence police practices. The story points to trends nationwide, but focuses mostly on cases in Los Angeles. The major examples include recent successful lawsuits on behalf of people bitten by police dogs, and some controversial shootings by sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles County. There is a "baffling disconnect" between lawsuits and police internal investigations, the story reveals. The author finds that a possible solution to the problem could come from nonprofit legal groups in every city, which would take on individual police abuse cases.
Tags: crime; litigation; courts; Police Watch groups; New York City's Neighborhood Defenders of Harlem; brutality; weapons; fleeing felons; torture
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Rude Boy
Village Voice tells the story of a little boy, J.J., who terrorized his classmates and his teachers at P.S. 207 in Harlem. At the age of 8 J.J. forced two six-year girls to perform oral sex, and was charged with first-degree sodomy and first degree sexual assault. The boy liked to hit other children, as well as his teachers, the investigation reveals. Even though the boy was diagnosed with conduct disorder, supposedly related to his father's absence, the mother refused to acknowledge the problem and give him the prescribed medication. At last J.J. ended up in a group home in upstate New York, Village Voice report.
Tags: children; schools; teachers; sexual abuse; mental health; discipline; family courts; Division of School Safety; social workers
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The College Connection
Education Week reports on how minority students have taken advantage of their high-schools' partnerships with colleges. A two-story package reveals that the ties between colleges and K-12 schools bring positive influence in the lives of students most of whom are at the same time facing family and economic problems. Most students in these high-schools aspire to get college education, after they graduate. The report features two specific examples of such successful partnerships - between Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Ithaca College in upstate New York, and between Syracuse University and High School for Leadership and Public Service in the so-called Spanish Harlem in Manhattan.
Tags: secondary; postsecondary institutions; universities; college-application process; academy; inner-city students; poverty; minorities; low income; teaching; learning
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Painted Black
The New Republic portrays Robert Johnson, "the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), whose family stood to gain millions if Bush succeeded." The story focuses on how Johnson "played the race card" in political games, where his own business interests were at stake. The analysis reveals that Johnson gathered support by major black leaders to achieve impact on three major issues - demanding an end to the estate tax, transforming the Social Security into a system with individual investment accounts, and encouraging the merger between United Airlines and US Airways. The author concludes that "Bushism and Johnsonism are made for each other; their nascent alliance represents a historic synthesis of the racial separatism of the left and the libertarianism of the right."
Tags: African Americans; television; business leaders; Harlem; United Airlines; US Airways; entrepreneurs; minorities; politicians; campaigns; Bush administration; lobbying
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The Harlem Shuffle
Investigation into the HUD loan program 203(k) for nonprofit organizations to purchase and fix-up run-down housing for resale. Johnson found a wide-open opportunity for speculators to purchase inexpensive buildings and immediately resell them at inflated prices to nonprofits. The story concludes that the program's flaw is a lack of HUD oversight, which leaves policing to appraisers and mortgage lenders who have few incentives to act responsibly.
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Moment chronicles the relationship between Jews and African-Americans in Harlem, using the arson fire of a Jewish-owned clothing store as a catalyst to examine the past and present relationship as well as thoughts on the future. (April 1996)
Tags: Magida The fire next time? Anti-Semitism Louis Farrakhan 7 pgs.
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Another America: Life on 129th Street
The Times examines drug dealing and the effects it has on a Harlem Block, where living becomes increasingly violent and dispirited. Poverty and despair run rampant and hope is swallowed by decay. In-depth profiles of a mother, a drug dealer, a brother and sister, etc., paint images of harsh realities, broken dreams, and hopes for the future. (Sept. 8 - 10, 1994)