How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing Pt II “Family Dollar & other low cost stores that have taken the place of local community owned stores have come a place for crime in urban and minority areas” The number of incidents can be explained in part by the stores’ ubiquity: There are now […]
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Dollar Stores Symbol Of Crime
How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing “Family Dollar & other low cost stores that have taken the place of local community owned stores have come a place for crime in urban and minority areas” When Jolanda Woods was growing up in North St. Louis, in the 1970s and early ’80s, she and […]
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Medical Breakthroughs For 2020
These 10 medical breakthroughs will change the world The Global Innovation Index identifies global trends and cutting-edge technology transforming healthcare From brain mapping to regenerative medicine, here’s what we can expect over the next decade Every day, medical innovations lengthen and improve lives across the globe. Over the course of the next decade, as twenty-first […]
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Rental Property Purchase
6 Ways of Buying Rental Property with No Money Down While having a nice chunk of change to buy rental property with will help propel your investing career, it’s not the only way. There are ways of buying a rental property with no money down or very little money down. If you’re tight on funds […]
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Home Insurace Coverage
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know Home Insurance Covers Most people understand that their homeowners insurance will pay if a tree lands on the roof or the garage goes up in flames. However, many policies cover a number of other losses that you may not expect. Of course, it goes without saying that every insurer […]
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Mass Imprisonment & Covid-19 Pt 3
Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration? As coronavirus cases mounted in Louisiana, incarcerated people often had no access to their lawyers. At several juvenile-detention centers, minors were kept in lockdown or solitary confinement, ostensibly for their protection. The mother of a sixteen-year-old boy detained in northern Louisiana told me, in April, that the […]
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Mass Incarceration Pt 2
Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration? At the Jefferson Parish jail, Crouch shared an intake cell with four other women. There were mats on the floor, for sleeping, and the only source of drinking water was a faucet above a toilet without a lid, where some of Crouch’s cellmates, apparently detoxing from drugs, […]
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Mass Incarceration Reviewed
Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration? On March 14th, Roslyn Crouch, a mother of twelve, left her house in New Orleans to stock up on toilet paper and canned goods, and didn’t return. Crouch, who is forty-two, with slender braids down to her knees, had been feeling anxious about the spread of the […]
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Bankruptcies Will Be Booming This Year
A tidal wave of bankruptcies is coming Experts foresee so many bankruptcy filings in the coming months that the courts could struggle to salvage the businesses that are worth saving. Already, companies large and small are succumbing to the effects of the coronavirus. They include household names like Hertz and J. Crew and comparatively anonymous […]
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Black Money Matters Pt 2
For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business A questionable piece of advice often given to Black business leaders: Hire a White wingman. Not only are these black CEO’s humiliated but the thought of giving up their company identity to using a white face to represent them is just downright […]