"Twenty three Black columnists offer chapters in the American story. The diversity of their voices is exhibited in a selection of essays." Includes index.
Contents:
Familes grieve, and question, as the deaths of military heroes mount / Betty Winston Baye -- The love that truly sustains us is the Valentine's Day version / Betty Winston Baye -- Busy music months reinforces ironclad reporting rule / Wayne Dawkins -- Greatness despite stumbles on the way to Canaan's edge / Wayne Dawkins -- A history ignored : Indians deserve to be recognized / Lewis W. Diuguid -- Young people face harsh realities / Lewis W. Diuguid -- Epithet stung, even for Pryor / Derrick Z. Jackson -- The unvarnished truth about Rehnquist / Derrick Z. Jackson -- Being fashion forward at work can set women back / Tannette Johnson-Elie -- For youths, trades offer a path to prosperity / Tannette Johnson-Elie -- A life of struggles, a life of forgiveness / Eugene Kane -- Hillary's plantation reference provokes / Eugene Kane -- Race-riot survivor, 103 / Jerry Large -- We can't afforde to waste a resource : young Black men / Jerry Large -- From Du Bois to do-rags / Will LaVeist -- She's still a woman of energy / Will Laveist -- Oh, just to talk once again with my father / Dwight Lewis -- Slaughter in Darfur is worse than war / Dwight Lewis -- it's clear Bloomberg just didn't get it / Errol Louis -- Punishing the innocent / Errol Louis -- People of color not considering Knight papers / Richard Prince -- Little attention for Our Black Shining Prince / Richard Prince -- Hard out here for stereotypes / Rochelle Riley -- Barney Fife to the rescue / Rochelle Riley -- Election fraud witch hunt disillusions young voter / Gregory Stanford -- Mainstream Black thought and an asterisk revisited / Gregory Stanford -- Torch passed for a new civil rights movement / Adrienne T. Washington -- Vote today to show you haven't lost your way / Adrienne T. Washington -- Black history needs more than 1 month / Rod Watson -- Race relations sublime and ridiculous / Rod Watson -- Two reactions to murder : acceptance or outrage / Tonyaa Weathersbee -- Putting Blacks in prison is latest legacy of slavery / Tonyaa Weathersbee -- Race and class cast long shadow over Duke / DeWayne Wickham -- U.S. pushes foolish policy of baseball, sí, academic, no / DeWayne Wickham -- A churning in my gut / Lisa Baird -- Neighborhood's summit gathers a cross-section of St. Louis' best / Gregory Freeman -- This is the odyssey of one man's vote for Barack Obama for U.S. Senate / Vernon Jarrett -- A penny for her thoughts / Peggy Peterman -- Final column leaves so many stories untold / Loretta Green.
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