... showing hospital admissions for asthma at six or more per thousand people in the South Bronx neighborhoods, and 1.8 per thousand statewide in New York. Although residents say they know the asthma epidemic's likely cause is the recently built incinerator nearby, Kozol explains that the assertion is both ... has dumped all its toxic industries in the neighborhoods where poor black and Latino children live. The rich and powerful white folks in New York City need a place to put a big sewage plant."(Children's News Express Bureau) As he is discussing the underprivileged youths, Kozol mentio...

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... . At the time, everybody was crew hopping. I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. We all hung out in my hallway. Sugar Pop was the Californian dude down with the Electric Boogaloos, the group that created poppin ......

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