If I was a poor black kid I would make it my goal to get into one of these schools.
I. is hired to find out whether an insurance company has cheated a poor black man of his life insurance pay-out.
If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible.
Because a poor black kid who gets good grades, has a part time job and becomes proficient with a technical skill will go to college.
He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).
That play, which starred Ethel Waters as Hagar, a poor, ill-educated black woman who sacrifices everything for her daughter, was also a success.
In Milwaukee, the model city for vouchers, where a group of mainly poor black mothers convinced the city's Democratic establishment to experiment, supporters of school choice took over the local school board.
For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones.
Born 47 years ago into a poor family that migrated to Istanbul from a province on the Black Sea coast, Mr Erdogan got his street education as a teenager peddling lemonade and simits (sesame buns) in one of Istanbul's roughest districts.
Oakland is a troubled, poor city, where almost half the population is black, a quarter is Latino and a hefty proportion are unemployed.
Clinton also included in his address Sunday a renewed pledge to carry out research at the highest standard of ethics to ensure there is never a repetition of a government study in Tuskegee, Alabama, on poor black men whose syphilis went untreated for years.
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John Edwards dares to stand in the gap between rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural, a vision of a new America.
But if the masters of the universe disappear into a black hole of their making, don't ask the poor and prudent to ride to the rescue.
That said, many poor Chinese would likely be unable to afford a new console, and the black market could still thrive with access to cheaper systems.
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As these people make up the backbone of support for the African National Congress, Mr Mbeki has to be very careful not to criticise a leader in a neighbouring country who appears to be doing more to help the rural black poor.
The boardwalk is the obvious draw, a tourist attraction stretching about four miles along the coast with a diverse mass of humanity -- rich and poor, young and old, black and white, families and miscreants -- tromping up and down the wooden slats.
The report condemns a culture of violence against black workers, compounded by high levels of alcoholism and poor education.
And like the rest of the US population, black Americans are experiencing a widening gulf between a well-off minority and the poor bulk.
Controlling black carbon by giving poor people cleaner ways to burn various fuels could not only forestall a decade or two of global warming, it would also save hundreds of thousands of lives currently blighted by smoke and disease.
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