What's The Matter With Low Income Black Neighborhoods?

 

What's the matter with Black neighborhoods?

Lack of enough income?

Black (African Americans) residents spending too much money outside of their neighborhoods?

Other Americans not spending money in Black neighborhoods?

Something else?

Marc Sims

Chicago

 

Marc Sims is a lifelong Chicagoan obsessed with presenting information that will reduce neighborhood crime.

 

What it means when movie theaters in Black neighborhoods close

The shuttered Showplace Icon theater in the South Loop (Chicago) will reopen, but other long-closed movie theaters in Black neighborhoods have yet to find a second life.

By  Alden Loury | WBEZ

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/07/movie-theaters-close-black-neigborhoods-alden-loury

Make C-SPAN Videos

 

I don't read as much as I should, but I enjoy watching C-SPAN videos. You can watch C-SPAN videos and make video clips. Here are a few of mine. 

 

 

Divergent Thinking & Education

Our inherent genius is schooled out of us.

Ruha Benjamin is  author of Imagination: A Manifesto

C-SPAN clip by Marc Sims   

https://beta.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-divergent-thinking-education/5143945

 

 

The Trashing of Higher Education

Why are high educators so liberals?

Patricia A. McGuire

President Trinity Washington University

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5143815/user-clip-trashing-higher-education

Police killings & Myside Bias 

Steven Pinker cognitive psychologist and author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.

C-SPAN clip by Marc Sims

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5143828/user-clip-police-killings-myside-bias

The Reality of Rural America

Miami University (Ohio) Professor Steven Conn talked about his book, The Lies of the Land, in which he argued that the reality of rural America today is vastly different from the way it is often portrayed by politicians and the media.

C-SPAN clip by Marc Sims

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5144842/user-clip-reality-rural-america

Marc Sims

Chicago 

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