September/October 2002

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover photo: Courtesy Arna Alexander Bontemps)
— Renaissance Man
* Among his New Negro peers, none matched writer Arna Bontemps' simultaneous commitments to family and the arts
By Charles L. James

FEATURES
— Public Money, Private Schools
The Supreme Court's ruling on vouchers isn't a clear win or loss for either side
By Michael Fletcher

— Mrs. Garvey
A feminist, she emerged from behind her husband a freedom fighter in her own right
By Ula Yvette Taylor

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Remembering Sept. 11
A historian ponders his family's safety, our freedom and our ultimate responsibility
By Robin D. G. Kelley

— Black History on the Auction Block
Why were some of Malcolm X's paper almost sold rather than archived?
By Manning Marable

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Activists lead Millions for Reparations march on the National Mall; Has anything changed for Black firefighters in New York?; Fall elections signal new day for African American politicians; Special interest groups to protest lack of White House access; Youth worldwide tackle HIV/AIDS Questions: National Black Farmers Association President John W. Boyd Jr. on the group's protracted battle with the USDA

- Crisis Forum
* Music: The history of African American violinists (Tai Murray)
* Television: PBS documents Jim Crow America
* Books:
— Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns, 1960-2000 by Jeremy Mayer
— White Boy: A Memoir by Mark D. Naison
— The biography Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius by Lawrence Jackson

- Backstory: Roscoe C. Brown Jr. remembers fellow Tuskegee Airman Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr

- The NAACP Today
* Houston convention rallies members to action;
* NAACP issues election reform report;
* ACT-SO competition shines after 25 years;
* NAACP grades the hotel and lodging industry;
* Branch News: New York City

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