A book review of Children, Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner University Press of Virginia, 1996, 258 pages, $29.95.
Even as the city is telling hundreds of homeless families that they are not eligible for temporary shelter, scores of rooms in apartment-style nonprofit shelters are sitting empty.
New York has moved from battleship-sized homeless shelters to a network of privately-run, smaller treatment programs. But is the get-well-or get-out philosophy really a solution?
Who says overcrowded public schools are the only option for black kids? Increasingly, poor and working-class African American parents are sending their kids to Afrocentric private academies that have taken…
Rudy Giuliani begged the Clinton administration to fulfill a $48 million promise to the New York City Housing Authority. HUD agreed, but there were strings attached–wrecking balls, actually. Now, Rockaway…
A small public academy dedicated to racial harmony and social justice was set to open in Crown Heights–before a last gasp of school board politics put it in jeopardy.
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