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Saving Chicago: Inside Hip-Hop’s Movement to Make Chicago a Better Place – A Billboard D

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Jan 27, 2017
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Saving Chicago: Inside Hip-Hop’s Movement to Make Chicago a Better Place – A Billboard D

11/17/2016 – Billboard Staff/VIDEO From black pain to black joy, Chicago is a vital center of hip-hop and community activism in America. Chicago artists, community leaders and activists including Common, Rhymefest, Jamila Woods, Malcolm London and more give Billboard an on-the-ground look at the city’s many facets, from protests over the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer in 2014 to Donda’s House, Rhymefest and Kanye West’s nonprofit to support youn

Combining Policy and a Vision to Enable the Rebirth of Struggling Neighborhoods

Jay Murdock

Jan 6, 2017
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Combining Policy and a Vision to Enable the Rebirth of Struggling Neighborhoods

by Maya Brennan – January 5, 2017 As awareness has grown about housing’s pivotal role in supporting quality of life and community well-being, national, state, and local leaders are developing comprehensive solutions that improve housing affordability, reduce concentrated poverty, and facilitate partnerships to further improve housing-related outcomes. Yet, blighted or abandoned properties—whether residential, commercial, or industrial—impede such housing and neighborhood revi

Jay Murdock

Aug 26, 2011
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The American Dream, In Black and White

Steve Nelson/Head of the Calhoun School in Manhattan Posted: 8/25/11 06:30 PM ET Obscured by incessant chatter about the credit rating and national debt is the sad reality of poverty and hunger in America. At the root of these issues is the ugly legacy of racism and the failure to recognize white privilege. Some will argue, with justification, that many white Americans are suffering these days too. But those problems are not the consequences of systematic oppression. To ackno

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