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“Not guilty.” Two words, read out again and again, shocking a nation each time. It was April 29, 1992, and a jury had just acquitted four police officers caught on video beating motorist Rodney King. In Los Angeles, shock over the verdict quickly turned into outrage and violence. Numbers tell just one part of the story. More than 60 people died in the riots, The L.A. Times reports, while at least 1,000 properties were damaged. Costs topped a billion dollars. For Myiesha Taylor, the cost was pers…
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You can only tell how bad the heroin problem really is in places like Dayton, Ohio by how commonplace its effects have become.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — “Dividing line,” said the city’s mayor. “This boundary between the haves and the have-nots,” said the college professor who studies urban geography. “A division,” said the neighborhood association president fighting for change. All three were asked the same question: When people in this city hear “Troost Avenue,” what do they think? Perhaps no city in America has a more stark physical and symbolic division than Troost Avenue, among the longest streets running north/south here.…
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