By Michelle Roberts (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Mossville is not located on most U.S. maps. Yet some of America's largest industrial corporations have found this unincorporated African-American community and exploit its natural resources and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Near Mossville, homes, churches and playgrounds, there are 14 industrial … [Read more...] about “Mossville, Louisiana: A Community’s Fight for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment” by Michelle Roberts (May-June 2011 P&R issue)
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Report to Congress: the “Moving to Work” Demonstration Fails to Increase Housing Choices for Low-Income Families (January 2011)
One of the three statutory goals of the HUD Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration was to “increase housing choices for low-income families.” The MTW program gave selected Public Housing Agencies freedom to waive provisions of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 and various HUD regulations in pursuit of the program’s statutory goals. A recent report to Congress on the program suggests … [Read more...] about Report to Congress: the “Moving to Work” Demonstration Fails to Increase Housing Choices for Low-Income Families (January 2011)
“Segregation and Exposure to High-Poverty Schools in Large Metropolitan Areas: 2008-09” by Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk & Dolores Acevedo-Garcia (November-December 2010 P&R Issue)
By Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk & Dolores Acevedo-Garcia (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Schools are a key environment influencing child development, and research has documented the negative effects of concentrated-poverty schools as well as the advantages of racially/ethnically diverse learning environments. Yet minority children continue to … [Read more...] about “Segregation and Exposure to High-Poverty Schools in Large Metropolitan Areas: 2008-09” by Nancy McArdle, Theresa L. Osypuk & Dolores Acevedo-Garcia (November-December 2010 P&R Issue)
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“Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
By Bill Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) We are pleased to print this excerpt of our late colleague Bill Taylor’s engaging 2004 memoir, The Passion of My Times: An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement, which gives a fascinating inside-the-Beltway side of an important American story that started in the streets and churches of the … [Read more...] about “Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
