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Last month, City Limits marked its 47th anniversary and inducted four exemplary New Yorkers into the City Limits’ Gala Hall of Fame. See highlights from the celebration.

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Aug 2010

News Uncategorized

We Won 'Race To The Top' Money. Now What?

One thing that is clear, and of concern to many advocates and educators, is that the money isn’t going to particular school-based programs.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Jun 2010

ARTS and CULTURE Economy Justice

Tough Love In The Big City

For young people born without that proverbial silver Spoon in their mouths, New York City has never been An easy place to grow up. It’s a tough love kind of…

ByE.R. Shipp 0Comments

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Jun 2010

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Drive For Nonpartisan Voting Confronts '03 Failure

Those calling for an end to party primaries say that they exclude thousands of voters who do not belong to the Democratic party, whose nominees win most races in the…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2010

ARTS and CULTURE Economy Housing and Homelessness Justice

The Search for the Smoking Gun

During four decades of debate over the causes of black-male joblessness and unemployment, there have been two broad schools of thought. There were those who blamed the problem on the…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2010

Economy

Like A Canyon

Just north of 125th Street, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture displays a timeline of black political activism. The familiar faces— Garvey, DuBois, King, Malcolm X, Jackson— are…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Nov 2009

Economy Justice

Poverty Fighters Get Their Own Consultancy

An institute forms to assemble, develop and spread the word about successful services and programs for lower-income people.

ByRae Gomes 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 4: High Hopes, Steep Challenges for NYCHA

The Bible reading during the Mass near the empty NYCHA complex was apropos. “Like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it,” the passage…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 3: Suddenly, No One Wanted to Pay for Public Housing

For the past six years the funding from the federal government has fallen far short time and again. And the city and state have also stopped their annual support for…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Aug 2008

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