What We’re Following This WeekFeb. 21: Quantifying blight in Detroit, fighting an unjust law in Nigeria, Latinas leading the conversation on reproductive rights and more. 21 FEBRUARY 2014What We’re Following This WeekHow raising the minimum wage could lift 700,000 tipped workers out of poverty. (ROC United)In Detroit, a top-to-bottom analysis of all 380,217 of its parcels of land will quantify the state of blight with a level of detail rare for an American city. (The New York Times)Award-winning novelist Chimamanda Adichie on the new Nigerian law criminalizing homosexuality: “[I]t shows a failure of our democracy, because the mark of a true democracy is not in the rule of its majority but in the protection of its minority.”
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