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1 day ago · By July, all the Jews of Venice were living in the ghetto, an area of the Cannaregio. The two gates were shut from dusk until dawn, guarded by Christian sentries. Boats patrolled the canals that ringed the ghetto. The Jews paid the wages of their own jailers. The Venetian ghetto is still visually distinctive.
3 days ago · Spurred by ‘zero tolerance’ policing and the critical shortage of affordable housing elsewhere in New York City (especially in Manhattan), what Vergara calls the ‘unmaking of a ghetto’ has seen Harlem radically transformed as a physical, commercial and social environment.
1 day ago · WHAT DOES THE BIDEN ASYLUM BAN DO? The new asylum ban allows authorities to quickly deport or send back to Mexico migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally without the chance to claim ...
5 days ago · “Ghetto” historically refers to segregated urban areas, often predominantly Black or minority communities. Using “ghetto” to describe something negative unfairly associates these ...
3 days ago · President Biden believes we must secure our border. That is why today, he announced executive actions to bar migrants who cross our Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. These actions ...
4 days ago · Ghetto and ratchet, the only difference is time show differently. Back then they eloquently stated their ways by saying how they can’t see the pool boy after their husbands and sons leave. Or how in an old song I used to hear as a kid that ONE sentence I remember alone was “he got a D— like a baseball bat.”
1 day ago · Philips writes, "The slaying silenced one of modern music's most eloquent voices—a ghetto poet whose tales of urban alienation captivated young people of all races and backgrounds."
