January/February 2003

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover photo: Carl Van Vechten/The Granger Collection)
— Renaissance Woman
*Zora Neale Hurston's biographer on writing the life of a literary legend. Plus, an excerpt from her book, Wrapped in Rainbows
By Valerie Boyd

FEATURES
— Clear and Present Danger
AIDS increasingly continues to plague the African American community
By Ervin Dyer

— The Crisis Interview: Dr. David Satcher
Back at Morehouse, the former surgeon general on the state of Black health
By Yanick Rice Lamb

— Mr. NAACP
Walter White skillfully navigated race issues and party politics
By Kenneth Robert Janken

ISSUES & VIEWS
— The Politics of Washington
After GOP victory, race colors start of new Congressional session
By David C. Ruffin

— The War on Pollution
The decades-long effort to gain environmental justice for all
By Robert D. Bullard

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Morris Brown College's accreditation troubles; Hugh Price to leave National Urban League; Harvard Law School tackling racial sensitivity; Black students with mediocre grades say that want to excel
Questions: Democratic insider Donna Brazile on the current political climate and Black voters

- The Color Line: A decade after the death of Arthur Ashe, William C. Rhoden recalls the tennis legend's activism and his still unheeded call to other Black athletes to take a stand on issues

- Crisis Forum
* Theater: Costume designer Emilio Sosa has his designs on Broadway
* Books:
— Law professor Derrick Bell's latest book ponders Ethical Ambition;
— Plus, reviews of Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir by Dexter Scott King with Ralph Wiley;
— Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence and Alice Ruth Moore by Eleanor Alexander; and
— Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace by Ejovi Nuwere with David Chanoff

- Backstory: Historian William Jelani Cobb on Zora Neale Hurston's lesser known, not so progressive views

- The NAACP Today
* The NAACP leads a goodwill and trade mission to Cuba;
* John Jackson on his departments aggressive education agenda;
* Branch News: N. San Diego County/Oceanside and Raleigh County, W. Va.

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