Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

In the national headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, President Jerome Davis last week tacked up a map of U. S. “intellectual slums.” The Federation had just finished a ...

MONROVIA (Reuters) - In the heart of Monrovia's worst slum, Gabriel Mobo sits on a wooden bench surrounded by playing grandchildren and surveys his neighborhood - a crush of tin and brick hovels ...

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The World's Worst Place to Be Gay? Scott travels to Bwaise, one of worst slums in Kampala, to meet a group of young gay’s who’ve been disowned by their families, thrown out of their homes and can’t ...

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

With close to half of the average city’s budget, spent to support them, the slums represent subsidized housing at its worst. This fact, if repeated often enough, is apt to impress the most ...

Hyderabad: The ongoing cold wave has led to a sharp 30% rise in cases of cold, cough, fever and other respiratory illnesses ...