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Article: Aging and changing.
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- September 22, 2005
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These days, I'm going to as many funerals as weddings, anticipating a future in which the former will outpace the latter. The cliche that aging is inevitable seems tragically false. Whether we're able to live long enough to make it to old age, the conditions we face as we do and the relationship between the generations are subject to public policy and community action just like anything else. In this issue, we focus on the policies that affect the aging process, hearing directly from an often hidden part of communities of color, the elderly. Violet Law writes about Black women in Detroit raising grandkids against a backdrop of racist institutional cluelessness that ...
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