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How the War on Poverty Stalled
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn 1962, a 33-year-old freelance writer who had little institutional or academic standing published a book widely credited with helping inspire the...
Ending Poverty Is Always on America’s To-Do (Tomorrow) List
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIllustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily BeastIn 2016 Matthew Desmond became one of the leading...
MLK changed Detroit — but only after Detroit changed him | Opinion
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoEditor's note: This column was originally published in the Detroit Free Press on Jan. 16, 2022....
A moment that impacted my life forever: MLK's March on Washington speech
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI was there. It was the 1960s. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. At the time I was...
US is becoming a 'developing country' on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople wait in line for a free morning meal in Los Angeles in April 2020. High and rising inequality...
Her Day Job Is Teaching Southern Lit. Come Sundown She Rocks the Bandstand
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMelissa PayneOn a breezy Saturday night Florence Dore pulls into Howlin’ Wolf Den in the New Orleans...
Would JFK Have Lost Had He Lived?
Politico via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWhat follows is an effort to peer through six decades of history and mythologizing to offer what we know about President John F. Kennedy and what we can surmise about what might have happened ...
Why billionaire philanthropist Robert F. Smith doesn’t believe in charity
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoOPINION: TheGrio’s inaugural Philanthropy Icon Award winner Robert F. Smith thinks America should...
