The Crisis back issues from March 2005:
Reform Nation
Mar 01, 2005; ... Washington just isn't Washington unless there is a reform effort underway. Prison reform. Health care reform. Welfare reform. Education reform. Medicare reform. Over the years we've tried it all, attempting to remake huge government programs. Next up: Social Security ...
Letters
Mar 01, 2005; ... American History I found the article "Bound by Slavery" in the January /February 2005 issue of The Crisis very moving and encouraging. My father has researched our family history and the information he has collected traces our heritage back more than 200 years. Like sisters Kalimah and ...
Spelman Oral History Project Preserves Black Women's Wisdom
Mar 01, 2005; ... The pages of Black women's history are peppered with the stories of nationally prominent figures, while scant attention is paid to the lives of ordinary Black women. To help fill this void, Spelman's Independent Scholars (SIS), a group of undergraduates at the all-women's college in Atlanta, are ...
Murders of Florida Civil Rights Couple Reopened
Mar 01, 2005; ... Not a Christmas has gone by in 53 years that Evangeline Moore has not been sad. On Christmas night in 1951, a bomb exploded under the home of her parents, Harry and Harriette Moore, in Mims, FIa. The couple had spent the day celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. The explosion ...
Q&A: Straight Talk on Social Security
Mar 01, 2005; ... The Social Security debate is heating up. On one side is the Bush White House, proposing a plan that calls for allowing workers younger than 55 to transfer one-third of their payroll taxes that go to Social security into new individual private accounts. On the other side is the AARP, a ...
IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2005; ... GOLD MEDAL AWARDED Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in 1947, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold medal on March 2. Robinson played first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947-1956. COUNTY ADDS ...
California Lawmaker Works to Improve Her Community
Mar 01, 2005; ... Karen Bass has long fought for social justice in South-Central Los Angeles attacking her community's drug epidemic, confronting gang violence and recruiting young community activists. And now, as the new Democratic majority whip in the California State Assembly, Bass, 51, has the ...
MILESTONES
Mar 01, 2005; ... Romeo Crennel, 57, was named the first Black head coach of the Cleveland Browns on Feb. 8. Crennel, former defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, signed a five-year $11 million contract. Shani Davis, 22, became the first Black speedskater to win the World Allround ...
Young CEO Spots Hottest Trends for Corporate America
Mar 01, 2005; ... In a culture often dismissive of youths, Tina Wells has turned her tender years into an expertise that has garnered her the respect of major corporations and secured her status as a multimillion-dollar CEO. Wells is the founder and chief executive of the New York-based Buzz Marketing ...
Minority Female Attorneys Form Networking Group
Mar 01, 2005; ... There are more African American women attorneys today than ever before. Yet, many challenges remain for Black women as they try to progress from mere staff members to the top lawyers for major corporations. Some believe that the lack of access to mentors and little, if any, contacts for ...
Black Republicans Gain Modest Ground in South
Mar 01, 2005; ... When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he changed the face of the Democratic Party. The party, once primarily Southern and segregationist, became liberal and integrated, sending staunch Dixiecrats such as Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Trent Lott of ...
LIVES
Mar 01, 2005; ... APPRECIATION James Forman: A Man of Strength I first met James Forman in 1962 during a meeting of student campus representatives of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta. I was 21 and a representative from Howard University's Non-Violent Action Group ....
ACCORDING TO REPORTS
Mar 01, 2005; ... BUSINESS More minorities are becoming entrepreneurs, according to "Self-Employed Business Ownership Rates in the United States: 1979-2003." The report, released in December 2004 by the Small Business Administration, found that business ownership rose by 37 percent for African Americans, ...
Health Care Reform: It's Expensive, But Can We Afford Not to Try it?
Mar 01, 2005; ... In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton presented to Congress a sweeping health care reform proposal that promised to fix the problems plaguing a system that carried a burden of 38.5 million uninsured people, with many more on the brink of losing their coverage. The plan was dead on arrival. The ...
Pulling a Fast One? The Facts About Social Security
Mar 01, 2005; ... The status of Social Security is dominating the pubclic policy debate. Will our elders have their benefits reduced? Will payments the hip-hop generation is making to the program be available to draw on when it retires? Is President's Bush plan to privatize Social Security a good idea, and how ...
Social Security Privatization: Opinions Strong Among African Americans
Mar 01, 2005; ... As the nation ponders proposals to overhaul the Social ecurity system, African Americans are asking what privatization would mean for the Black community. There are differences of opinion among Blacks about whether individuals should use a portion of their individual Social security accounts to ...
Bridge Over TROUBLED WATERS
Mar 01, 2005; ... Forty years ago, hundreds of civil rights activists were brutally attacked by law enforcement officers as they marched peacefully across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Their bravery was the impetus for the 1965 Voting Rights Act ON SEPT. 15, 1963, four little Black girls were ...
UPHiLL BATTLE
Mar 01, 2005; ... In November, Gwen Moore became the first African American elected to Congress from Wisconsin. After more than 16 years in politics, she still fights relentlessly for the underdog and the underserved. GWEN MOORE is wearing her comfortable shoes. They are black leather with thick soles and ...
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Mar 01, 2005; ... THE PRIMM FAMILY MAKES BATTLING HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY A FAMILY AFFAIR On a cold Saturday in December, Annelle Prirnm sits at the kitchen table of Angela Jackson's West Baltimore home listening to her recount her life as calmly as if she were reading a grocery ...
THE RAP ON "ROSA PARKS"
Mar 01, 2005; ... THE 1998 OUTKAST SONG THAT BORROWED THE NAME OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON REMAINS THE SUBJECT OF A CONTROVERSIAL LAWSUIT AND CONTINUES TO FUEL TENSION BETWEEN HER FAMILY AND REPRESENTATIVES The last thing Rosa Parks expected to be talking about in church was a rap song. But seven years ago, ...
Documentary Filmmakers Face Rising Copyright Costs
Mar 01, 2005; ... TELEVISION The six-part series Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965, which ailplpn PBS in 1987, and the eight-part slfm, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads, shown three years later, are without a doubt, the definitive documentaries on ...
In Recognition of Women Revolutionaries
Mar 01, 2005; ... In Recognition of Women Revolutionaries Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 By Kimberly Springer (Duke University Press, $21.95) Not every dissertation turns into a remarkable book. But thank goodness Kimberly Springer chose to research and chronicle "an ...
At Arm's Length: the Black Community and Its Gay Men
Mar 01, 2005; ... At Arm's Length: the Black Community and Its Gay Men Beyond the Down Low: Sex and Denial in Black America By Keith Boykin (Carroll & Graf, $24) Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality By Dwight McBride (New York University Press, $26.95) Countee ...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2005; ... BOOKS IN BRIEF God's Gym: Stories by John Edgar Wideman (Houghton Mifflin, $23), Although most of the short stories in this collection - the celebrated author's first in more than a decade - have previously been published elsewhere, these 10 gems, which explore faith, strength and ...
Sen. Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Prince Honored
Mar 01, 2005; ... Three the nation's most noted African Americans will receive special awards at the NAACP's 36th Annual Image Awards. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey and music legend Prince will all be honored for their unique contributions to American ...
After the Storm: Rays of Hope
Mar 01, 2005; ... They say that in death we are all equals, and as I stand in the heart of Thailand's tsunami zone, these words resonate in ways that are painful, yet clear. It is a hot day in January, and my work as a journalist has brought me to this place, but even still, there is a spiritual side of me that ...
NAACP Women Extend Helping Hand to Those in Need
Mar 01, 2005; ... When Hurricane Floyd hit the town of Princeville, N.C., in September 1999, volunteers from Women in tne NAACP (WIN) went to work. They collected food, clothing and medical supplies at the NAACP's national headquarters and sent them to Princeville by the truckload, making about a dozen trips to ...
NAACP Takes Stand Against IRS Audit
Mar 01, 2005; ... On Oct. ,8, 2004, the NAACP received a notice of examination from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The notice questioned association's status as a 501(C)(3) corporation because of remarks made by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond at the association's 95th annual convention in July. Bond is alleged ...
In Memoriam
Mar 01, 2005; ... Over the past few years, the NAACP has lost a number of its longtime workers. George Frye, Julie Baker and Edward Dudley were among the dedicated soldiers in the struggle for equality. George Frye, a photographer, was born in Asbury Park, N. J., and raised in New York. From 1944 to 1946, ...
Summit Seeks Next Generation of Leaders
Mar 01, 2005; ... In 1909, a group of six reformers met in New York City to establish what would become the nation's leading civil rights organization. Ninety-six years later, the NAACP is recruiting its next generation of leadership in that struggle. The organization is inviting young professionals ages ...
Regional Update
Mar 01, 2005; ... The branch and field services department issued its fourth-quarter report describing the many activities and accomplishments of NAACP branches around the nation. Each regions branches worked hard throughout 2004 on behalf of civil and human rights. One of the major activities of all the regions ...
St. Cloud, Minn., Branch Rebuilds Future
Mar 01, 2005; ... Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, approximately 70 miles northwest of Minneapolis, is St. Cloud, Minn., a fast-growing commercial hub. St. Cloud is an ethnically homogeneous city with a population of approximately 60,000 people, 91 percent of whom are White. "When I came to ...
Obituaries
Mar 01, 2005; ... Boce W. Barlow Jr., 89, judge, died Jan. 31 in Silver Spring, Md. Barlow became Connecticut's first Black judge in 1957, and in 1966, was the first Black elected to the state Senate. Lamont Bentley, 31, actor, died Jan. 18 after a car crash in Los Angeles. Bentley was a regular on the ...
NAACP Has New Health Advocacy Director
Mar 01, 2005; ... As the new director of the NAACP Health Division, Lucille C. Norville Perez M. D., hopes to combat the nation's racial and ethnic health disparities with innovative solutions on the local level. "We rallied around apartheid |in South Africa], but here in this country, based on the color ...