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January/February 2007
CONTENTS
ISSUES & VIEWS
— Is Welfare Reform Working?
A decade after the program was overhauled, the rolls have plummeted,
yielding some successes and a cohort of working Americans who are poor
By Patrice Gaines
FEATURES
— The CRISIS List
From national news, to appointments and deaths, politics, the arts and
sports, a roundup of the people and events that shaped 2006
Compiled by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
— Forecast 2007
Will new African American political leadership improve the state of Black
America in the coming year?
By Terence Samuel
—Head of State
Deval Patrick made history when Massachusetts voters chose him to
become the nation’s second Black elected governor
By Kenneth J. Cooper
—To Grandmother’s House We Go
Increasingly, drug abuse, AIDS and other social factors are causing
“parentless” children to be raised by their grandparents
By Jimmie Briggs
Cover: Charles Krupa/AP
DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's
Note
- Letters
- Up Front: The nation honors
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
dream of nonviolence; Tavis
Smiley’s book, Covenant With
Black America, inspires
activism; Web site directs travelers
to local soul food joints;
Report finds African Americans
most politically involved among
youth; Researchers highlight
stress of living while Black;
Majora Carter is cleaning up
the environment in the South
Bronx
Questions: Rep. Keith
Ellison (D-Minn.) on being the
first Muslim elected to
Congress.
- Crisis Forum
* Gallery: Black history museums are
struggling to stay afloat;
Pittsburgh exhibit explores the
experiences of Black Vietnam
veterans
* Design: Industrial
Designer Charles Harrison has
had a pioneering influence in
his field
* Books:
— Reviews of Bridging the Divide:My Lifeby Edward W. Brooke;
— Red Riverby Lalita Tademy; and
— Harriet
A. Washington’s Medical
Apartheid: The Dark History of
Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans From Colonial
Times to Present
- Backstory: Patrice
Gaines remembers her
longtime friend, bestselling
author Bebe Moore Campbell
- The NAACP Today
NAACP continues to celebrate
upcoming Centennial; For
first time, Image Awards to be
broadcast live; African-themed
films recognized by Image
Awards; Regional roundups
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