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September/October
2006
CONTENTS
ISSUES & VIEWS
— Gunning for a Fight
With city crime on the rise, some mayors are calling for gun control
— once a losing political proposition
By Kenneth J. Cooper
FEATURES
— Sister President
Johnnetta Cole has pulled Bennett College from the brink, raising the
HBCU’s profile and boosting its reputation and endowment
By Lori D.R. Wiggins
— Can Morris Brown Be Saved?
Recovering from a financial scandal and mismanagement, the Atlanta
HBCU is down to less than 50 students
By Nedra Rhone
—Persistent Plague
While the world rallies around the AIDS crisis, Tanzania is still suffering
from alarming rates of malaria
By Ervin Dyer
—The Black Panthers Mark 40 Years
Veteran members of the party, including Bobby Seale, above, recall their
efforts to build a social and political empowerment movement
By Curtis Stephen
Cover: Steve Exum
DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's
Note
- Letters
- Up Front: Will gay marriage
factor in the fall elections?;
Financial preparation for retirement;
Website seeks to abolish
the N-word; The politics of hair in
the workplace; Job prospects for
Black men with a high school
education; For Black voters, does
party trump race?
Questions: Teacher of the Year Kim Oliver on
educating America’s children
- Crisis Forum
* Film: Spike
Lee marks 20 years with a
documentary look at Hurricane
Katrina
* Multimedia: Comic-Con
convention highlights growing
Black participation in animation
and comic book projects
* Books:
— Reviews of Enough: The Phony
Leaders, Dead-End Movements,
and Culture of Failure That are
Undermining Black America —
and What We Can Do About It
by Juan Williams;;
— Edward P.
Jones’s All Aunt Hagar’s
Children and
— There is No Such
Thing As a Natural Disaster:
Race, Class, and Hurricane
Katrina edited by Chester Hartman
and Gregory D. Squires
- Backstory: One year after
Hurricane Katrina, the plight
of one New Orleans family highlights
the myth of recovery efforts
- The NAACP Today
President Bush addresses
NAACP, plus other convention
highlights; Hollywood bureau
challenges television diversity;
Branch News: Anne Arundel
County, Md.
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