The Crisis back issues from May 2001:
Beginning anew
May 01, 2001; ... Editor's Note As founding editor of The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois laid out his case against race prejudice during a "critical time in the history of the advancement of men." I am humbled to have the honor of carrying on his mission in this very new time in which we find ourselves ....
After 20 years, HIV/AIDS disproportionately threatens Black populations around the world
May 01, 2001; ... upfront While many diseases strike African Americans disproportionately, few are widely regarded as a "Black" illness, like sickle-cell anemia. Given the stark increase of newly reported cases in the Black community, HIV/AIDS - although it certainly doesn't discriminate - may soon be ...
Radio One acquires blue chip
May 01, 2001; ... Radio One, the nation's largest African American radio broadcasting company, recently acquired Blue Chip Broadcasting Inc. for $190 million in cash, stock, and the assumption of outstanding debt. The Feb. 8 deal adds 15 stations to Radio One's empire, which already includes 63 stations across ...
Questions for Werner Sollors
May 01, 2001; ... Werner Sollors is a professor of English literature and Afro-American studies at Harvard University. Sollors, the author of many books, recently edited Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law. According to the latest census figures, there are more than ...
Anti-reparations ad stirs controversy
May 01, 2001; ... In March, conservative activist David Horowitz submitted an advertisement entitled "Ten Reason Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too," to a selection of college newspapers across the country. The paid ad sparked protests on many campuses, including Brown and Duke ...
African origins
May 01, 2001; ... The discovery of a new genus of early humans has once again traced evolution back to Africa. This latest find appears to root man's earliest origins in Kenya rather than in Ethiopia. Until now, scientists generally regarded "Lucy," the fossilized skeletal remains of the Australopithecus ...
According to reports...
May 01, 2001; ... CIVIL RIGHTS Grading the Clinton Administration The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report on the Clinton administration's civil rights record on April 11. The Commission, an independent, bipartisan fact-finding agency, is chaired by Mary Frances Berry and has seven additional ...
Milestones
May 01, 2001; ... David Levering Lewis Awarded Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in biography for W E. B. Du Bois, The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919 - 1963, the second volume in a series. The prizes were announced on April 16. Lewis also won the ...
Black employees sue Christian Coalition
May 01, 2001; ... Ten African American employees of the Christian Coalition have filed a racial discrimination suit against the organization charging that they were barred from using the organization's front door and forced to eat in a segregated dining area. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court ...
Mississippi to retain confederate symbol
May 01, 2001; ... upfront Mississippi voters have chosen overwhelmingly to retain their 107-year old state flag bearing the Confederate battle cross. By a nearly 2 to 1 majority a proposal to replace the flag with one featuring a ring of stars was rejected on April 17. Mississippi is the only state in ...
San Diego bans "minority"
May 01, 2001; ... The San Diego City Council unanimously (8-0) approved a resolution to discontinue the use of the word "minority" to describe ethnic groups in official city documents, such as employment papers and contracts. San Diego Deputy Mayor George Stevens, who is African American, spearheaded the ...
Lives
May 01, 2001; ... John Thomas Biggers, 76, an artist and educator who chronicled the African American experience in paintings, murals and illustrations, died in Houston on Jan. 25. Widely acclaimed for his symbolic murals based on African American and African cultural themes, Biggers founded and worked in the art ...
The color line: Danger ahead?
May 01, 2001; ... When W.E.B. Du Bois predicted that racism would be the paramount problem of the 20th century he expected the United States to remain locked into the Black-white racial paradigm well into the next millennium, In less than a generation, however, the African American population has been surpassed ...
Numbers running
May 01, 2001; ... The 2000 Census showed that the U.S. population has grown by 6 million more people than had been predicted. The Hispanic population has increased by more than 60 percent in the last decade. And together, Blacks and Hispanics represent one in four Americans. BY RODERICK J. HARRISON ...
Lynching past and present: Race and the death penalty
May 01, 2001; ... More than half of the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty. The U.S. ranks third in the world in the number of reported executions carried out and has killed more child offenders than any other nation. If a person convicted of a capital crime is poor or kills a white person, ...
New leader, old foe
May 01, 2001; ... Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas is the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. With a Republican in the White House and Democrats still in the minority on Capitol Hill, will Johnson lead the CBC on a power surge or sputter? Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) was at ...
Predatory lending
May 01, 2001; ... Vulnerable consumers are being coerced into signing up for high-cost, unaffordable loans. For 61-year-old Yasmeen El, of Philadelphia, it started with an envelope arriving in the mail. Inside was an unsolicited "live check" for $4,000 from Household Finance (HFC). El was in luck - or so ...
June teenth: Celebrating African American Independence Day
May 01, 2001; ... In his early days as a Texas state legislator, Rep. Al Edwards introduced a bill to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday. Juneteenth - marking June 19th as the date when Texas slaves learned they were free - had been celebrated among some African Americans for decades, but Edwards ...
The voice of a race: The undiscovered Paul Robeson
May 01, 2001; ... Paul Robeson (1898-1976), renowned for his legendary title portrayals in Othello and The Emperor Jones and his deep-voiced renditions of Negro spirituals, was arguably the most prominent Black American during the years between the two world wars. In The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's ...
The power of the spirit
May 01, 2001; ... President Bush's "faith-based" initiative has divided African American religious abd community leaders -- rallying some, riling others President George W. Bush's "faith-based initiative" created an instant fault line in the African American community in January, dividing minister from ...
The storyteller
May 01, 2001; ... Playwright August Wilson is bringing a century of African American life and history to the stage. His latest play, King Hedley II, recently debuted on Braodway. August Wilson sits in a Times Square cafe sipping coffee. He is 56 now, though he easily could pass for a decade ...
Wit its 5th anniversary in site, The Black World Today stays true to its mission
May 01, 2001; ... Dot-com Chat/TECHNOLOGY DON ROJAS, a long-time print and radio journalist who has served as editor of the Amsterdam News and director of communications at the NAACP, is the founder of The Black World Today (TBWT) an online Black community that went live July 1996 at www.tbwt.com. This ...
Tech stock windfall creates invaluable options for youth
May 01, 2001; ... TECHNOLOGY Focus Not long ago, Trish Millines Dziko might have been caught up in the current furor over the slowing economy, bear market and plummeting tech stocks. But today her concerns are more meaningful than daily stock market fluctuations. After eight years at Microsoft, Dziko ...
The Negro
May 01, 2001; ... The Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois (University of Pennsylvania Press, $14.95 paperback) First published in May 1915, The Negro is one of W.E.B. Du Bois' Lesser-known writings. The significance of his sixth book, however, is formidable in that it is regarded as the first overall examination of ...
A'Lelia bundles on the legacy of Madame C.J. Walker
May 01, 2001; ... Author A'LELIA BUNDLES spent more than two decades researching On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker (Scribner, $30), a biography of her great, great grandmother, who made a name for herself marketing hair growth and conditioning products. VICTORIA VALENTINE spoke to ...
Freedom of the equation
May 01, 2001; ... Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, by Robert P. Moses and CharLes E. Cobb Jr. (Beacon Press, $21) During the 1960s, civil rights veteran Robert Moses organized voter registration drives in the rural communities of the Mississippi Delta for the Student Nonviolent ...
Books in brief
May 01, 2001; ... Chester Himes: A Life, by James Saltis (Walker & Co., $28). James Saltis culled the contents of this first comprehensive biography of hardboiled crime novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) - author of If He Hollers Let Him Go and Cotton Comes to Harlem - from public records and countless ...
Integrating Gotham City
May 01, 2001; ... Generations of youth grew up devouring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman comic books. But until recent years, comic enthusiasts would have been hard-pressed to find a non-white superhero whose many adventures and caped crusades could occupy an entire Saturday afternoon. Racially diverse ...
Living in Sterling's house
May 01, 2001; ... I first saw the house on a late summer's day in 1995. It was a time of transition, one season ending, another beginning. I suppose that is what you could have said about my life then, too. Though when think about things now, they all seem to fit on a continuum, a seamless series of events that ...
Vernon Jordan to receive 2001 Spingarn Medal
May 01, 2001; ... The NAACP Today The NAACP will award the 86th Annual Spingarn Medal to attorney Vernon Jordan in July at the annual convention in New Orleans. The Spingarn Medal is the NAACP's highest honor for achievement. Previous recipients of the medal, first awarded in 1915 by then-NAACP Chairman ...
National HIV testing day
May 01, 2001; ... On June 27, the NAACP will co-sponsor the 7th Annual National HIV Testing Day. The nationwide awareness campaign, sponsored by the National Association of People with AIDS, promotes prevention, education, HIV counseling and referral to encourage persons at risk for HIV infection and others to ...
The Pine Bluff NAACP: Making a way for change
May 01, 2001; ... The Pine Bluff branch of the NAACP has been working since 1919 to empower the Arkansas city's African American residents. Today, as the presence of high-tech and big business is bolstering the city's economy, the NAACP branch is taking measured steps to make a lasting effect on the community ....
The Prince George's County NAACP: Making waves, forging change
May 01, 2001; ... For the past three years, tension has run high in Maryland's Prince George's County, which includes an affluent and predominantly African American suburb, sandwiched between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Under the leadership of its second-term president, Edythe Flemings Hall, the Prince ...
The NAACP National Prison Program's regional warriors
May 01, 2001; ... For the past three years, tension has run high in Maryland's Prince George's County, which includes an affluent and predominantly African American suburb, sandwiched between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Under the leadership of its second-term president, Edythe Flemings Hall, the Prince ...
Reapportionment and redistricting: Getting the count straight, the lines right
May 01, 2001; ... When the nation's Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution in 1787, they set forth a skewed method for apportioning congressional seats, or districts, in the House of Representatives. In determining population figures, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a whole person. Not until ...