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July/August
2002
CONTENTS
COVER
STORY
— Political Prisoners
* Urban communities are losing voting power and funding to prison-hosting towns
By Zachary R. Dowdy
FEATURES
— Community Reinvestment Acts
The restorative justice movement seeks to repair those harmed by crime
By Patrice Gaines
— Middle Man
Frederick McGhee was recruited by both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
By Paul D. Nelson
ISSUES & VIEWS
— The
Map of Life
Why African Americans should care about the mapping of the human genome
By Sharon Dukes
— Election
2002: What's at Stake?
Strategies
for making African American issues a priority in the fall
By Ronald Walters
DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note
- Letters
- Up Front: Final conviction concludes case of four little girls in Birmingham
church bombing; Nation's first Black-owned luxury resort opens in Miami; State
of Mississippi gets Medgar Evers papers; Black Panthers gather for 35th anniversary;
Mumia Abu-Jamal case 20 years later; Monticello Association denies membership
to Sally Hemings' descendants Questions: The Death Penalty Information
Center's Richard Dieter on recent Supreme Court rulings
- The Color Line
* Brian Gilmore on the U.S. Supreme Court's fall review of California's three
strikes law to determine whether the statue constitutes "cruel and unusual" punishment.
- Crisis Forum
* Art: Paul R. Jones has assembled one of the largest collections of African
American art
* Theater: Sarah Jones' open-mike poetry has evolved into critically acclaimed
stage performances addressing issues of race, class and gender
* Books:
— Steven L. Carter's first novel The Emperor of Ocean Park;
— Growing up X by Ilyasah Shabazz
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Backstory: Stephanie Stokes Oliver recalls realizing at age 8
that her family was different because they were Republicans and
most other Blacks were Democrats
- The NAACP Today
* Preview of the 93rd annual NAACP convention in Houston;
* Florida State Conference fights for election reform;
* ACT-SO celebrates its 25th anniversary;
* Branch News: Louisville, Ky; Mesquite, Texas
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