As Philadelphia transforms, there is a distinct possibility for social gaps to widen, and for the growth to exclude the city’s poor. For the first time in decades, more people are moving to the city than leaving it, and many of the newcomers are better educated or wealthier than the average Philadelphian. But alongside the rehabbed brownstones and loft-style condos, hundreds of thousands of families continue to live in poverty, giving Philly the dubious distinction of having the largest population living in poverty of any major city — 25.6 percent. In the region, that compares to 18.2 percent in Washington, D.C., 19.4 percent in New York, 21.4 percent in Boston and 22.4 percent in Baltimore. And while the numbers vary, the same challenge crops up in all of these fast-gentrifying cities: How to ensure that growth happens without leaving the most vulnerable populations behind?
Mercury, Venus, and Saturn align with the Pyramids of Giza for the first time in 2,737 years on December 3, 2012
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The connection between socioeconomics and infant health is significant enough that when maternal health statistics are aggregated onto maps and color-coded, the poorer sections of most cities are wholly different colors than wealthier sections.
Any advice on love? I guess to men – especially for African-American men. In popular culture, we have such a limited lens of paradigms to follow. Ya know, whether it’s the Tyler Perry-niggas-aint-shit paradigm. Or, you’re either the slapstick buffoon, pseudo thug, the athlete, or the pimp boy if you look at movies, tv, and straight to dvd. If you look at just the narrative speak about pimpology that came from blaxploitation films and, the rampant sexism and misogny in hip-hop; a lot of young men don’t even realize how much they aren’t experiencing. Because we live through such a small screen of existences that you’re allowed to express yourself in as a man. So there’s a certain aspect about being a ladies man that is kinda corny or dirty after a while if you’re not really gonna make it with someone in particular. So, yeah. Pimpin’ aint all that; that’s corny. [laughs]
Gender roles have changed so drastically in the last 50 years; people’s ideas of what a relationship is, like whether it’s a big wedding, whether it’s some god-forsaken Basketball Wives interpretation of what a man does for a woman, or vice versa – relationships are actually about partnership. Whether that’s building a family, a support system both financially and psychologically, owning real estate together, things like that. Dating, at this point, I can’t afford to exchange fluids with someone under a certain stature. [laughs] You just don’t wanna get caught up with the wrong element.
We first met Érika at the MALBA museum in Buenos Aires. She’s a photographer from Brazil. That is all we know about her.
Here’s what happens after the museum closes.
(photo by Leandro Neves)
DiTomaso concludes, based on her research, that most white Americans engage, at least a few times per year, in the activities that foster inequality. While they may not deliberately discriminate against black and other non-white job seekers, they take actions that make it more likely that white people will be employed — without thinking that what they’re doing amounts to discrimination.
