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Black Economic Growth Is Hard in the Big Easy
To hear locals tell it, black wealth in New Orleans is an oxymoron. Before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and the levees broke, it was one of the poorest cities in the United States, a grim burden borne disproportionately by blacks. Five years later, little has changed except for the dispiriting fact that the city’s…
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America's Slow Embrace of World Music
The cult of Michael Jackson in Japan, jazz quartets in Sweden, and rappers from Russia to the Gaza Strip. Black artists from the United States shape the music the rest of the world listens to and makes. But black musicians from other parts of the world, especially Africa, still have a hard time breaking out…
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Hotlanta: Is the Dirty South Really the Land of Milk and Honey?
It’s ”The ATL” and ”Hotlanta” to the hip-hop crowd. The Big Peach and Gate City to the bourgeoisie. No matter the label, it seems everyone wants to stake a claim here. And everyone has a fantasy of what will happen once they arrive. Atlanta’s mecca image has deep roots. Antebellum ”free people of color” laid…
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