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Aging and changing.
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 severely limits the housing options for these families. Karen Carillo brings us the story of 84-year-old Herman Ferguson, a former political fugitive who has returned from exile to finish out his years in the place where he started. Regina Shavers tells us what life is like for our lesbian and gay elders of color.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Aging and changing.