Housing/Gentrification

“Wow, i didn’t even know that place was gone” New Orleans born and raised sisSTAR Ann, exclaimed as we rolled through the gentriFUKed and/or re-deviloped streets of the 9th ward, Algiers and Treme neighborhoods of New Orleans, to name a few.

The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) is a movement that is based in Philadelphia and is run by formerly homeless, poor and currently homeless people like us here at Poor Magazine.

“We are surrounded by Black Cops”, said Leroy Moore, with POOR Magazine and Krip Hop Nation about the 15 black cops who surrounded us houseless and formerly houseless mamas, uncles, children, and elders from the Poor People’s March when we walked humbly into the Washington DC office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to demand our housing back.

“We are here to meet with Ben Carson,” we all said.

Well I went down to the rich man’s house- to take back what he stole from me- take back my dignity- take back my humanity…..

“Be Love. So much things to say right now….. Got surrounded by the police for being Black in a white neighbourhood. Smh. I’m sad and irritated to see that fear is still the first place police officers go in their pursuit to serve and protect. To the point that protocol supersedes their ability to have discernment. Many have suffered and died in moments like these.

The arrests of 2 Black men at a Philly Starbucks last week has advocates and supportersalike taking to the coffee magnet to express unrest in the latest of racial profiling in the good

How to Stop Living Out of Your Car

Grieving Mother AudreyCandyCorn Sister Save A Soul … 2 Years 21 Days and the time is 1:03,3hours Hours to the EXACT MOMENT of My BELOVED … Now DESEASED ,My 1^st Born My TRUE LOVE,MY EVERYTHING , MY HEART BEAT... No Longer BEATS .This is A Heart ATTACK . My Son is DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Who Fucks Wit It ) Ebonicly speaking ( REVENGE ,REVENGE ) only time will tell … 2 Years 21 Days 3hours 365 days .x.times Infinity ….

"Don't turn left, because that area is full of "bums" and it doesn’t reflect on the real "San Francisco“, the cab driver clicked his teeth together as he rattled on about which sights to see in his beautiful San Francisco (which ironically, due to a gentrification inspired eviction, he no longer lived in)