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News brief: “[W]hite people from across the country gathered in the rubble of Robert Taylor Homes to reminisce on their past drug buy experiences and to urge the Chicago officials to reconsider redevelopment plans. ‘This plan will destroy a great source of recreational drugs for entire white suburban families,’ said event organizer Derek Pincha. ‘My friend Nasty Dawg here has served not only me, but my mother, sister, several aunts and even my dear old grannie. We can’t let this institution die without a fight.’”
Born last year as a newsletter E-mailed to friends (and now on-line at www.beansouptimes.com), the paper has grown rapidly. Since December Muhammad’s published four issues on paper, and plans to do two more by the end of the year; it’s distributed free at libraries, stores, and restaurants as well as Afrocentric Bookstore, the Cultural Bookstore, and Borders on State. Muhammad says he has sunk about $2,000 of his own money into the paper and that the costs of the current 12-page issue were completely covered by advertising sales.
