Month: February 2010

Ms. Hegemann finds herself in the middle of a collision — if not road kill exactly — between the staid, literary establishment in a country that venerates writers from Goethe to Mann to Grass, and the Berlin youth culture of D.J.’s and artists that sample freely and thereby breathe creativity into old forms. Or as one character, Edmond, puts it in the book, “Berlin is here to mix everything with everything.”

Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism

StalledDevelopment.com – Google Maps mashup of urban developer blight

We need to make these sites into assets for the community. Many of these developments are causing real hazards for their neighbors, with fences falling down on sidewalks, loose construction debris that can become deadly in high winds, and unsecured sites that are dangerous for children and an invitation to squatting.

Help the effort to convert local blight to community benefit by providing feedback and tracking the progress of each site. Click on the sites in the map below to leave a comment and update us on the conditions. If you call 311 about an issue, please leave a complaint number in the comment.

http://stalleddevelopment.com/

On Feb. 8, 1968, eight seconds of police gunfire left three young men dying and at least 28 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College at Orangeburg. All of the police were white, all of the students African-American. Almost all of the victims were shot from behind as they fled the gunfire. The shootings were the culmination of four days of student protests over the desegregation of the city’s only bowling alley, located just minutes from the campus. It was the first time ever that police opened fire on students on a U.S. campus, yet it remains an almost unknown event in the history of the American civil rights movement.

Documentary explores the Orangeburg Massacre