A WORRIED daughter fears the lack of wardens at a council-run retirement housing complex is putting her elderly parents at risk. Carol Hardiman fears that people living in the sheltered housing site have been let down as there is no longer anyone regularly checking in on them and problems are taking longer to deal with. She said: There is never a warden there, it s not right, things have really gone downhill. The lift often breaks so my 90-year-old mum has to go down three flights of stairs until it s fixed, sometimes she can t leave the flat to do her shopping.
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ANGER over cutbacks on sheltered housing wardens by the council has seen a fresh campaign launched. Residents at Charles Macpherson Gardens have joined forces with the ACORN union in a bid to retain a full-time warden at the Eldene facility. Francis Smith, who lives there, told the Adver in February how he owes his life to a housing warden after she checked in on him and found him dehydrated and hallucinating – even though the 68-year-old told her he was fine when she called. But moves by Swindon Borough Council to adopt what it says is a model used up and down the country will leave residents without a live-in warden.
Derrais Carter TUCSON, Ariz. The blaxploitation movies of early 1970s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential.
Derrais Carter, a University of Arizona researcher who studies and writes about Black culture, said films such as “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” “Shaft” and “Superfly” were marketable films for Hollywood but fueled negative depictions of Black people. In the films, Black men were often depicted as “pimps, drug dealers and hustlers,” Black women were hyper-sexualized, and Black children were “often represented as ‘streetwise,’ which prematurely ages them out of innocence,” Carter said.