Latino
UNEVEN DISTRESS
K. Wright |
More than half of poor New Yorkers are experiencing “emotional distress” that impacts thier daily lives.
Latino
Pro Bono Blowup
Ruth Ford |
Big law firms are donating their legal expertise to help the less fortunate–the City of New York, that is, as it fights high-stakes civil rights lawsuits.
Latino
No Hablar in the ER
Paul Fain |
Translation services at two hospitals spurs a movement at others
Center for an Urban Future
City Lit: How to Be a Starving Artist
Bill Roundy |
The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet, edited by Mickey Z, and Memoir of a Visionary by Antonia Pantoja
Latino
The Big Idea: Money–The Great Equalizer
By Hakim Hasan |
Advocates for better schools need to stop worrying about racial integration–and focus more on dollars.
Latino
The Moving Spirit
Malcolm Venable |
Two Christian congregations that embrace gays and lesbians provide safe places of worship. As AIDS tears through communities of color, they are also a model for where the black church must go next.
Latino
Invisible Men
Annia Ciezadlo |
Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
Bronx
UNFAIR HOUSING: NEW YORK LOSES A BIAS WATCHDOG
Marley Seaman |
As officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development celebrate 35 years of fighting housing discrimination this month, the city’s headquarters for investigating fair housing has lost its funding and closed up shop.
Bronx
OLDER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LOSING SEATS
Daniel Hendrick |
Education czar Joel Klein’s plan to reorganize several high schools meant for the city’s oldest, most troubled students could slowly squeeze those kinds of kids out of the system altogether.
City Hall
GET THE LEAD OUT
K. Wright |
New players, a new bill and the same old story for the Council and lead paint removal.
