November/December 2006

CONTENTS

ISSUES & VIEWS
— Losing the Children
Parents, schools and the justice system are fail-ing our youth and therefore fueling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
By Marian Wright Edelman

RACE AND SPORTS
— Sporting News
A new report details what African American journal-ists have long known: sports, which are dominated by Blacks, are covered almost exclusively by Whites
By Gregory H. Lee Jr.

— Power Play
Today's Black athletes have more influence and wealth than ever before. Why haven't they harnessed that power on and off the field?
By William C. Rhoden

—Riding High
Philadelphia's Work to Ride program uses polo to expose inner-city youth to a range of possibilities
By David Aldridge

—Women in Sports
A conversation with Tina Sloan Green of the Black Women in Sport Foundation and an examination of the dearth of Black female coaches
By Jemele Hill and Ron Thomas

—Change Agent
Peter Westbrook is teaching New York City youth about a lot more than fencing
By Katti Gray

—Right on Time
Remembering Negro Leagues legend Buck O'Neil
By James A. Riley

—Unchartered Waters
Today’s Black athletes are making phenomenal showings in sports such as swimming, wrestling and sport fishing


Cover: Robert Laberge/Getty Images

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Note

- Letters

- Up Front: Ten years after Prop. 209 outlawed race- based admissions; What hap- pened to all of the Hurricane Katrina money?; The Avoice pro- ject is preserving online the history of Blacks in the U.S. Congress; Debra Furr-Holden examines how the environment influences the well-being of neighborhoods; Several HBCUs are digitizing their archives; Teen documentary film- maker Kiri Davis examines race, self-esteem and cultural identity
Questions: Stephon Marbury on his $15 basketball shoes
- Health
* At the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Black leaders vow to address, with urgency, HIV/AIDS in the African American community and throughout the Diaspora
- Crisis Forum
* Gallery: New-York Historical Society exhibiton features contemporary artists’ interpretations of slavery
* Books:
— Reviews of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature by John K. Young;
— The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff; and
— John Gerdy’s Airball: American Education’s Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics
- Backstory: A photograph ic tribute to Enolia McMillan, the first female president of the NAACP

- The NAACP Today
Wyoming Indian tribe becomes corporate member; ;Economic report cards

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