January/February 2004

CONTENTS

COVER STORY (Cover: John Labbe for The Crisis)
— Strength in Numbers
* Latino population growth has outpaced Blacks. Should the two communities join forces in the fight for social justice or go it alone?
By Lori Robinson, Paul Cuadros and Alysia Tate

FEATURES
— Wedded to the Cause
The Crisis Interview: Maria Echaveste and Christopher Edley, a couple of Washington insiders, on the politics of Black-Latino relations
By Lori Robinson

— Dreams Deferred
AIDS has ravaged South Africa. A visit to a hospice in Mandeni reveals that the rural village outside Durban is among the hardest hit
By Ervin Dyer and John Sankofa

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Money, Power and Politics
How the campaign finance system disenfranchises African Americans, other minorities and the poor long before election day
By Spencer Overton

— Who Should Say "I Do"?
Gauging whether where Blacks stand on gay marriage will influence who they support in the presidential election
By Keith Boykin

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Lateefah Simon’s work with troubled young women earned her a genius grant; What the Lionel Tate situation says about the system of justice for juveniles; Black legislators from the Americas and the Caribbean meet in Brazil; Marking the 200th anniversary of the Haitian revolution; Ward Connerly takes his anti-affirmative action efforts to Michigan; The state of Maryland integrates Black history into its public school curriculum
Questions: Martin Luther King III on leaving the SCLC to head the King Center in Atlanta

- The Color Line: Daniel Wilson on how African Americans are faring in their retirement years

- Crisis Forum
* Art: Artist Kara Walker’s paper silhouettes are provocative comments on our perceptions of race, history and gender
* Books:
— Reviews of The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro;
— James M. McPherson’s The Negro’s Civil War;
— The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley; and
— When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams

- Backstory: Marta Moreno Vega, a Black Latina, on living on the margins of three worlds

- The NAACP Today
* The NAACP archive is largest at the Library of Congress;
* White participation in the NAACP;
* Branch News: Terrebonne, La.;

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