‘Poverty tour’ stirs debate about whether Obama policies have helped African Americans
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CHICAGO – Kyshandra Jackson was in the laundry room drying a load of clothes when the debate over President Obama's efforts on behalf of African Americans arrived at her West Side apartment complex. Her predominantly black neighborhood was among the first stops on a weeklong road trip that media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West are calling "the poverty tour."
The bus tour, which is drawing large crowds and media attention, ups the stakes on the continued criticism of White House policy toward blacks by Smiley and West and provides a window into how their complaints are playing on the streets of the city Obama calls home.
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Anthony Faiola 09 Aug, 2011
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