July/August 2001

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover photograph: Welton Doby for the Crisis)
— Waking from the Dream
Youth Organizing and the Future of Black Leadership
By Angela Ards

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Global Racism
Why African Americans should care about the U.N. World Conference Against Racism
By Lynn Huntley

— Semester of Discontent
The "rebirth" of campus activism.
By Frankie J. Petrosino

FEATURES
—Godmother of the Student Movement
Civil rights organizer Ella Baker saw the promise of youth leadership
By Joanne Grant

— Colombia's Civil War
A young crusader's fight for poor Blacks in his war-torn, drug-infested country
By Lori Robinson

— Special Report
The flashpoint, unrest and aftermath of Cincinnati
By Kevin S. Aldridge

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note
- Up Front: Ex-Klansman gets life for 1963 Alabama church bombing
* Questions: Mary Frances Berry on Florida Vote
* According to Reports
* Milestones
* Lives
- The Color Line: Roger Wilkins on our Founding Fathers' dilemma
- Census: Blacks return South
- Crisis Forum
* Art: Jacob Lawrence retrospective
* Film: Atlantis' Dr. Sweet, Disney's first Black animated character
* Dance: PureMovement, recasting urban dance
* Music: Cornel West's spoken-word CD
* Books:
— Colson Whiteheads's new novel John Henry Days
— Two tomes examine the work of filmmaker Oscar Micheaux
- Backstory: Reclaiming Fort Greene, Brooklyn
- The NAACP Today
* President Mfume in Cincinnati
* More convention previews
* Branch profile: Sumner County, Tenn.
* Proposed Strategic Priorities & Goals

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