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Who Killed New Orleans?
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created the most expensive disaster, the largest evacuation, and the third deadliest flood in American history. Nobody can control Mother Nature but the world's most advanced nation could have protected its citizens better. This disaster revealed the faulty psychological reactions of officials who not only failed to protect the public from danger in New Orleans, but lacked effective responses to the calamity. We elect and hire people who are supposed to protect us from attacks by nature and enemies. However, they fail us because of their human nature. They are as imperfect as we are, but we expect them to collect and heed facts that we cannot know, to prepare for ...
Whose Detroit?
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the inner city and its workplaces even after Great Society liberals committed themselves to improving conditions. Using the contested urban center of Detroit as a model, Thompson assesses the role of such upheaval in shaping the future of America's cities. She argues that the glaring persistence of injustice and inequality led directly to explosions of unrest in this period. Thompson finds that unrest as dramatic as that ...
The Careful Writer
A handbook of alphabetized entries which provide answers to questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and color.
Hearings
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Narcotics Legislation
Considers. S. 1895, to intensify Federal-state efforts to prevent illegal use, manufacture and sale of drugs, and to develop programs for drug education for youths and rehabilitation for the habitual user. S. 2590, to establish a Commission on Marihuana. S. 2637, to increase number of drugs classified as dangerous and to increase penalties for illegal use of such drugs.
Crimes of Violence
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Gambling in America
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Jet
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
