Sublime

In virtually every competitive professional school in this country, one will find a critical mass of Morehouse and Spelman graduates; the same is true of investment banks, corporate law firms, and doctoral programs. Even if students are only in Atlanta for four years, the sheen of that place, the discipline, doesn’t rub off. And it does strike a co

The city-state has the United States’ largest population of foster youth. The first time we spoke, Vega recited grim statistics: foster youth were twice as likely to experience PTSD as war veterans.

In these early years, film studios were reluctant to publicize the names of their featured players, fearing that individual billing might empower them to ask for more money. But

main port town of Honolulu became an urban slum

L.A. had grown from the country’s thirty-sixth-largest city in 1900 to the powerhouse it was on that April afternoon in 1928.

Moynihan Report,

“Easiest job in America,” we were told.

Today, California is more Petaluma than Lakewood. In the 1950s and 1960s, California routinely built more than 200,000 homes each year.38 Since 2007, California has never once permitted more than 150,000 new homes.39 “In Los Angeles, fewer homes were built in the seventies than in the sixties, fewer in the eighties than in the seventies, and fewer

Culturally speaking, Atlanta is the bright star of the South that we steadily watch, even if with disdain. Atlanta is the cutting edge on unsteady ground. The Black queer mecca, the heart of the Black music industry, the place where McMansions are maintained, pristinely, by the descendants of domestics who now pay somebody else to clean their house