The 234 Apartment

Eventually the Civic Arena, which many came to see as a harbinger of the community’s destruction, was torn down and replaced with the modern PPG Paints Arena . Half a block away, the Freedom Corner was dedicated in 2001, commemorating the civil rights leaders of the 1950s and 1960s who sought to maintain the Hill District. It is also a symbolic gateway to the neighborhood. In 2006, a proposal to build a casino in the lower Hill District was overwhelmingly rejected by residents. To this day, the sphere of influence from downtown generally stops at Crawford Street, which for me was a jarring reminder of how ghosts from the past don’t easily dissipate. Though much of Wilson’s Pittsburgh is gone, you could use his words to tour the district. I did so, led by Kimberly C. Ellis, a digital consultant and founder of the preservation- minded Historic Hill Institute , who is also the playwright’s niece. “The neighborhood has changed a lot,” she said, adding that “there is a renewed level of p...

By John-Henry Perera , Chron.com / Houston Chronicle Published 7:28 pm, Sunday, August 13, 2017 Photo: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Image 1 of 14 Close-up of lifeguard Linda Fox as she sits poolside at the Watergate complex, Washington DC, 1969. In the center rear is the Watergate East co- op apartment building . (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images) less Close-up of lifeguard Linda Fox as she sits poolside at the Watergate complex, Washington DC, 1969. In the center rear is the Watergate East co- op apartment building . (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture ... more Photo: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection /Getty Images Image 2 of 14 Aerial view of the Watergate complex located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood , Washington DC, 1969. Pictured are Watergate West (left), the Watergate Hotel and Office buildings (center), and Watergate West. (Photo by Michael Rougier/The LIFE...

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...

At her 33rd appearance as Subject 16019 in a clinical trial of an experimental drug she hoped would fix "this little problem with my memory," Sandra Brannon sank into a medical exam room 's recliner and waited. "What's the date again?" Sandra asked me. I had escorted her to a wing at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, where the NYU Langone Medical Center was among 210 institutions worldwide conducting the trial. As a family friend, I was standing in for Sandra's only child and chief caregiver, who had business elsewhere that morning. "November 18th," I answered. I'd responded to the same question from Sandra four times during our 27- minute subway ride to a stop a few blocks from Bellevue. "Right. Got it." Sandra scribbled my reply on her cheat sheet as a nurse bounded through the door to prep her for her monthly intravenous infusion of solanezumab, which Eli Lilly developed to target mild cognitive impairment caused ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Administrators at Michigan State University are expecting 8,000 first-year students to arrive on campus next week.  The class of 2021 is considered one of the largest in the school's history. Overall, MSU received 36 ,000 applications from prospective students, but only 8,000 were admitted. They will move onto campus Monday, with classes scheduled to begin Wednesday.  Nearly 16,000 students will be living on the East Lansing campus this academic year in residence halls and on- campus apartments . As in past years, a number of volunteers will be pitching in to help with move in, including other students, faculty, staff, alumni and community volunteers, according to a news released from the university.  More than 72 percent of new students are from Michigan, which the university said reflects its long- standing land grant tradition . MSU enrolls the most Michigan students of any university in the state. According to the school, it will be enrolling the large...

Not only were many country clubs and municipal courses once segregated, so, too, were the ranks of professional golf . The Professional Golfers Association of America, the precursor of the PGA Tour, maintained a Caucasians-only policy until 1961, forcing pioneering black pros , including Ted Rhodes and Charlie Sifford, to play for years on African-American circuits. Sifford became the first black professional golfer to break the color barrier, but although he went on to win two PGA events, his best years were behind him. It was in light of this history, and the ongoing plight of minority men in America today, that Mr. Evans came up with the idea of a youth golf program with an academic track in Harlem. Early on, Mr. Evans recalled, people asked him why he was focusing exclusively on young, male minorities. “I said, ‘All you have to do is read the newspaper, look at your nightly news.’ It doesn’t take rocket science to see what’s going on in America.” The Bridge students have exami...

Linda Davis of Muskegon MUSKEGON, MICH. - Three renters at Glen Oaks Apartments in Muskegon discovered a racial slur written on their doors late Tuesday evening . Early Wednesday Muskegon Police took a vandalism report, photographed the graffiti, and maintenance workers from Glen Oaks removed the words. "This is a racial thing," said Linda Davis. Davis says she found the message on her door. Davis and her husband called 911 and reported the discovery. Davis says "burn n-----" was also on the only two other African American families who live in the apartment unit. "That tells me it is a racial thing," said Davis. On Tuesday racial graffiti was found on a monument at Muskegon High School . Sunday a noose was located on the playground at Glenside school.  Davis considers the graffiti a threat. She says last week there was a small fire in the breezeway outside her apartment. The fire went unnoticed. The fire burned out and left a small amount of damage...

ICE raids hits Roaring Fork Valley , Carbondale approves policies to ‘gain the trust of immigrants’" title="The Home Front: As word of ICE raids hits Roaring Fork Valley , Carbondale approves policies to ‘gain the trust of immigrants’" /> “Carbondale trustees have approved new town policies in an attempt to gain the trust of immigrants, while word has spread of arrests by federal immigration officials in the Roaring Fork Valley ,” reports The Glenwood Springs Post -Independent . “Ted Hess, a Glenwood Springs immigration attorney , said that several of his immigrant contacts reported numerous arrests early last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents , though that activity is difficult to verify. Hess said all he has is anecdotal evidence, but he received seven phone calls Aug . 14 from people reporting ICE arrests and activity, and similar accounts followed later in the week. ICE has arrived, he said, and these kinds of raids will be a feature...