January/February 2001 Volume 108 No. 1

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover photograph: John Launois, Black Star)
— Malcolm X: hero or history's footnote?
By Les Payne
While some persons proclaim Malcolm X a great figure in the 20th Century, others decry that notion, asking, "what did he do?" Les Payne answers that question

FEATURES
— Bush is president: will we count?
By Ronald Walters
With 90 percent of black voters rejecting him, will President Bush claim he owes them nothing? Walters tells why such a strategy would be a disastrous course for him to take and for blacks to accept.

— Capital punishment: murder most foul
By Bryan Stevenson
There are 3,700 people on death row waiting to be murdered. Without doubt, some of those are innocent because of an imperfect justice system. Why do we tolerate this state-sanctioned murder?

— Black doctors: a strong medicine to take in the New South
By Todd L. Savitt
Shunned by black patients and given short shrift by white colleagues, black doctors at the turn of the century (1880-1920) became pioneers in medicine, establishing medical colleges, hospitals and learned journals.

— W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
By David Levering Lewis
An excerpt chosen by the author from his second volume of a Du Bois biography. The first volume won a Pulitzer Prize. John Hope Franklin says this volume surpasses the first.

DEPARTMENTS
- Guest Commentator
- Letters
- Upfront (by Rick Blake and Frankie Petrosino)
- Milestones
- Art (Jim Hinton portfolio)
- Music (Is rap music? by Ron Wynn)
- Literature (A hand-made world by Judy D. Simmons)
- The World of the NAACP (by Frankie Petrosino)

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