Ralph Peer was the beginning of the business of country music. Working for a struggling record company in the 1920s, the white record executive went to the American South with the sole purpose of finding competition for Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, a black woman. In the South, ...
but also forscience. Because after an election the air is thick with competing claims for why the election came out as it came out, and there’s no clear-cut, irrefutable way to test the claims and prove what the truth is.
but also forscience. Because after an election the air is thick with competing claims for why the election came out as it came out, and there’s no clear-cut, irrefutable way to test the claims and prove what the truth is.
U.S. News and World Reportanalyzed 150 metro areas to find the best places to live. Factors were based on the quality of life, job market, value of living there and people's desire to live there. Below are the Top 5 places to live in New York State, according to U.S. News and ...
Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most When then-Mayor Richard M. Daley ushered in Chicago’s red-light cameras nearly two decades ago, he said they would help the city curb dangerous driving. “This is all about safety, safety of pedestrians, ...
James O’Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving. O’Keefe’s compatriots, Shaughn A
It’s possible that the HOLC was alarmed by that 12%, but it’s also the case that lenders and officials at the time didn’t care for the white ethnic groups in the neighborhood either. The agency shared widespread contemporary assumptions about the limited material value of older, urban, ...