Honestly, I kind of cringed as I went through Edward Tufte’s piece. We get it: he hates PowerPoint with a burning passion, and will do everything he can to relentlessly attack it. Of course, he certainly backs up all his… Continue Reading →
Perhaps the part that resonated with me the most out of the two articles was a statement by Nikole Hannah Jones: “White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white. If their neighborhood is black, they want choice.”… Continue Reading →
Overall, the debates I’ve heard regarding gentrification, including some discussions from my second Macaulay Seminar course, painted it in a very bad light; it was a whitewashing takeover of poor communities of color, of their neighborhoods and culture, and which… Continue Reading →
Coates: Mr. Williamson, while I appreciate your comprehensive response to my article, I believe you may be missing my broader point. You mentioned that the political interests of African Americans are best served by equality under the law, and I’m… Continue Reading →
Perhaps the one sentence that stood out the most to me from Kimmelman’s piece was found in the middle of the article: “Public authorities and cultural experts after the fact blamed the residents or the architecture, but these both were… Continue Reading →
Seeing the name “Robert Moses” in the title of Caro’s response immediately struck me with one word: controversy. With that said, however, I didn’t actually know enough about his background to be able to form an opinion about him; his… Continue Reading →
As someone who is very interested in geography, maps, and anything of the sort, I have spent time going through New York forums, examining the demographics of different communities, particularly those on Long Island and other areas close to NYC…. Continue Reading →
For some reason, I previously couldn’t seem to link the mass exodus of African-Americans from the South to the term “The Great Migration,” probably because I associated the term with a more global movement rather than a national one, but… Continue Reading →
Jelani Cobb’s piece about the closure of Jamaica High School hit home for me in so many different ways that I’m not even sure where to begin, especially as the issue at hand is something that directly affected me. I… Continue Reading →
E. B. White’s piece was the first of the two to catch my attention, mainly because it mentioned Little Neck, and lots of people don’t even know that such a place (my hometown and current city) exists. Facebook doesn’t even… Continue Reading →
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