November/December 2000 Volume 107 No. 6

CONTENTS

COVER STORY
- An Interview with Rev. Dr. Vashti Murphy McKenzie (Cover photograph: Carmen L. de Jesus)
By C. Stone Brown
A tradition of female exclusion was shattered July 11 when the Rev. McKenzie, 53, was elected the AME Church's first female bishop.

FEATURES
— Election 2000: Has Duplicity Overcome Democracy?
By Bill Strickland
Professor Strickland calls for a Niagara 2001 to protect today's black voter and exposes the real meaning of the Electoral College. He says that the Electoral College was a device invented to protect slavery, a provision to count each slave as three-fifths of a person—called the " federal ratio"—for the purpose of giving the South extra political representation in the Congress and in the election of presidents.

— TransAfrica's Randall Robinson: Leading the Growing Reparations Movement.
By C. Stone Brown
Randall Robinson leads a re-examination of reparations as the solution to close the "wealth gap" between blacks and whites.

— Profile: Congressman, Harold E. Ford Jr.
By Peter Brown
Young (Tenn.) Congressman Ford who grew up in a political family is now forging a new path for black leadership.

— Assata Shakur: Profiled and on the Run
As told to Editor-in-Chief Ida E. Lewis. Ex-political prisoner Assata Shakur who has lived in exile in Cuba since 1984 tells Lewis that the New Jersey police and the U.S. government have done everything in their power to criminalize her. "I am no criminal," she said, "nor have I ever been one."

— Joe Madison Witnesses the Horror of Slavery in Sudan
By Peter Brown
Veteran talk show host, Joe Madison (known as the "Black Eagle"), says that the images of slavery he witnessed in the Sudan will be with him for the rest of his life.

— A Photographic Folio: A Portrait of a Photographer as an Artist
By Shirley L. Poole
Carmen L. de Jesus, new Crisis Chief photographer is known among her peers as an "Artist." Bert Miles, former CBS cameraman, said "Carmen's photographs are art, and art triumphs over time.

SPECIAL REPORT: 16 PAGES
- In this historical document 10 African American women respond to issues discussed by W.E.B. Du Bois in his essay Damnation of Women, written in 1920.

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Notebook by Ida E. Lewis
- Letters
- Milestones
- Crisis Chronicle
- Art
- Music
- Film Documentary
- Book Reviews
- The World of the NAACP
The NAACP's Voter-Empowerment Program
The 85th Spingarn Medal Goes to Oprah
NAACP Resolutions Ratified Oct. 21, 2000

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