I’d add that in many places (e.g. in American inner-cities) poverty is not just a condition of limited access to resources and opportunity. Poverty, of the entrenched, cyclical sort, is also a condition of culture, of the soul of a community. It is a chronic failure of hope, a sort of mass-scale depression, which has roots in material conditions, but becomes something more insidious, even, than the material conditions that engender it…
Interesting discussion on Quora.
“Wait while I get the feeling…” In honor of his birthday, Sam Cooke, live.
Currently watching Chuck Brown’s homegoing.
As with Michael and Whitney, there’s much to be said about the amazing way, we send someone off that we consider ours, when they cross into the next realm. Even after the fair amount of publicity following the announcement of…
One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them.
Can I just reblog this over...
