By The Editors
Officials of a non-partisan coalition of organizations based in New York City are warning that the city could lose millions of dollars in federal funds if residents in neighborhoods with a low participation rate—which is based on the number of residents returning the Census form—are not included in the Census count.

By Pamela Newkirk
Boyd died of lung cancer in November 2006 at age 56, but his memoir was shepherded to publication by his widow Robin Stone, a journalist and author who penned the afterword. The book traces a black man’s uncharted path from an impoverished childhood in St. Louis to an iconic American institution that both reflects and shapes the nation’s racial attitudes

By Deborah Rudacille
Martha Cooper’s iconic photos of graffiti-sprayed subway trains, hooded teens wielding cans of Krylon in deserted yards, and skinny kids twisting and flipping on flattened cardboard boxes on the streets helped introduce hip hop culture to the world—even though neither she nor the kids thought of it in those terms at the time.

By Janet Singleton
Today Bridges is 44, and it has been 17 years since the former Diff’rent Strokes star has been on the bad side of the barbed wire. Killing Willis: From Diff’rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted is an update. And even a person who finds narcissistic celeb bios routinely loathsome (such as the author of this review) can see value in Bridges’ tale.

Brandon Moon was exonerated five years ago this week after spending over sixteen years in Texas prisons for three sexual assaults he did not commit. Moon, who was the only person in both photographic and live lineups conducted during the police investigation, was tenuously identified by one victim, who had been raped at her home. Two other rape victims subsequently identified Moon, and he was convicted and sentenced to 75 years in prison, despite his testimony that he was on his college campus at the time of the crime, and had no opportunity to commit the rape because he did not own a car.

By The Editors
Change Counts on You!