Tag: poverty

Book Deserts Cut Into Literacy in Low Income Neighborhoods

LINK: “A book desert isn’t a community-created situation.”

Angie Thomas: The Debut Novelist Who Turned Racism and Police Violence Into a Bestseller

Click here to go to The Guardian.

Is Amazon Same-day Delivery Service Racist?

Read all about it at the Christian Science Monitor.

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Does Air Pollution Cause Dementia? Poverty and Location Don’t Help.

Click here to read Vox.com’s interview with an intrigued scientist.

AsianWomanPollutionPhoto by Global Panorama

What do Silicon Valley elites know about inequality?

LINK: Vox quizzes tech’s owning class

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POTUS Announces U.S. Program Will Connect Public Housing Residents to Web

Read at The New York Times.

Click here for the factsheet on the project’s implementation.

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President Obama testing the federal IT dashboard, 2009
(Source: Wikipedia – Pete Souza, Flickr)

The New Wave of Ultra-Violent Ugandan DIY Action Cinema

Go to Vice.com to read about Wakaliwood and watch a mini-doc.

Trailer for a Ramon Film Productions movie, “Who Killed Captain Alex”:

Too Poor For Apartments, Japanese Temp Workers Live in Internet Cafés

Click here to read at DangerousMinds.com.

Shocking, yet not surprising.