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.
The nonprofit good-government group Citizen Action is trying to do what the state legislature has thus far refused to do–computerize lists of the tens of thousands of contributions made to…
The City Council is planning to expand the rights of AIDS sufferers on public assistance, and unless two Giuliani administration officials agree to come to hearings on the topic, they’ll…
Judge Judith Kaye would like to change courts to allow alternatives to jail for some offenders, but Albany’s politicians are unlikely to go along with the plan.
