November/December 2003

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover: Marc Tauss for The Crisis)
— State of Black Children
*A progress report assessing how African American youth are faring in terms of three key indicators: wealth, education, health and juvenile justice
By Lottie L. Joiner

FEATURES
— No Child Left Behind
Minority and poor students across the nation, once struggling, are now excelling in schools that have implemented the Comer Development Program
By Audrey Williams June

— The Crisis Interview: Dennis Archer
The first Black to lead the American Bar Association talks about affirmative action, judicial nominations and John Ashcroft, among other issues.
By Brian Gilmore

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Court of Opinion
Judicial nominee justice Janice Rogers Brown's arch-conservative views have many asking if she is this Bush's Clarence Thomas
By Joe Davidson

— Rebuilding Liberia
No longer dominating the headlines, conditions in the West African state with deep American ties remain dire
By Emira Woods and Carl Patrick Burrowes

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Grassroots campaign seeks to register Black voters; Camille Cosby convenes intergenerational summit; Nigerian woman avoids stoning, Recalling "reverse" integration in Alabama; Is the Congressional Black Caucus still relevant?; Blacks key in production of U.S. currency
Questions: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Washington, D.C.'s early presidential primary

- The Color Line: ACLU's Timothy Edgar on White House efforts to expand the USA Patriot Act

- Crisis Forum
* Media: Black actors are finding voice-over work both fulfilling and lucrative
* Music: Sandtown, a Baltimore children's choir, is uplifting its community with song
* Film: The Spook Who Sat By the Door re-emerges
* Books:
— Reviews of Toni Morrison's Love;
— Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson;
— Passing: When People Can't be Who They Are by Brooke Kroeger;
— The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead; and
— two Sammy Davis Jr. biographies: In Black and White by Wil Haygood and Gonna Do Great Things by Gary Fishgall

- Backstory: Texas Senator Rodney Ellis on the reality of redistricting

- The NAACP Today
* CACT-SO alum crowned Miss America;
* Branch News: Spokane, Wash.;
* Resolutions

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