Today onย Context Florida:
Reporter Melissa Ross reflects on the murder of two Virginia television journalists, which took place live on air Wednesday. She recalled the night she heard shots while covering a story, and implores everyone โ of all colors and backgrounds โ to see how gun violence affects everyone. That in itself has become a point of contention, like most American debates.
Yolanda Hood has never read Harper Leeโs To Kill a Mockingbird and likely will never read it. Chances of her reading the recently released sequel Go Set a Watchman are slim to none as well. Although Mockingbird is a moving portrayal of racism, social injustice, and the fight to overcome them, Hood has no reason to read it โ she lives those experiences every day.
Marc Yacht says a better understanding of the poor must look beyond income and at the larger community: the quality of education, water, electricity, pollution, sewage systems, and residential living conditions. Do after school activities exist for children? Are there parks, community centers, local libraries, street gangs, drug abuse, and violence both domestic and crime-related? Poor neighborhoods are at greater risk for substandard living conditions and all play a role in defining the broader conception of poverty.
