Searchlight Nevada has five black residents, or .07 percent of its population of 759. That’s about average for small Mojave Desert towns, but is it enough to teach a Mormon grandfather about sensitive issues of race? Has he ever even heard about African-American people living here, in America?
Las Vegas Weekly: Thoughts on Reid, racism and, of course, black culture in Searchlight
KEN LAYNE

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… with good reason.
According to Kurt Andersen’s slim new book Reset, the economic collapse is a magical second chance for America — an opportunity for a nation of greedy vulgarians and dumb slobs to find new purpose in our post-binge society.
Las Vegas Weekly — Things Fall Apart


