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Generation Homeless: The New Faces of an Old Problem
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SEATTLE (Oct. 19) -- Twenty-two-year-old Tony Torres sags, exhausted, onto the pavement just beyond a skate park where kids from this affluent Seattle suburb, Bellevue, flip tricks off ramps to the beat of a boombox. This is a safe place to hang out until he knows whether he'll get a bed on this night at the nearby YMCA, which donates its rec room as a shelter for young adults at night. His odds of getting a spot to throw a mat on the floor are about one in seven. Mike Kane / InvestigateWest Tony Torres, 22, sits in his room at a temporary housing unit in Seattle's University District on ...
David Wolper, Producer of 'Roots,' Dies at 82
By not in system - AOL NewsBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Aug. 11) -- David L. Wolper, whose landmark 1977 miniseries "Roots" engrossed the nation with its saga of an American family descended from an African slave, has died. He was 82. Wolper died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home Tuesday evening while watching television with his wife Gloria, said spokesman Dale Olson. Wolper died of congestive heart disease and complications of Parkinson's disease, Olson said. He was a consummate salesman and advocate for filmmakers, said Mel Stuart, a veteran feature director and documentarian who worked with Wolper for two ...
In First Lady's Roots, a Common Path From Slavery
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyThat headline pretty much says it all. But today the New York Times has "breaking" news about First Lady Michelle Obama's "complex" path from slavery. "In the annals of American slavery," the Times story says, "this painful story would be utterly unremarkable, save for one reason." That, of course, is the fact that her family line made it all the way from the "Big House" to the White House. Gasp! Except for the last part, isn't this the same story of almost any and every African American? As I said, the headline on this story says it all. African Americans in this country, by their PC ...
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