The Minorities and Communication section of the proceedings contains the following 10 papers: "A Content Analysis of Advertising Techniques in Mass Market and African-American Magazine Advertisements" (Jan S. Slater and others); "Political and Racial Adversaries: Southern Black Elected Officials and the Press" (Daniel Riffe and others); "The Portrayal of Blacks in Television Advertising: A Comparison of Brazilian and U.S. Television" (Venilton Reinert and Thimios Zaharopoulos); "Minorities in the Newsroom: The American Society of Newspaper Editors and Integration--From 'Separate but Equal' to 'Justice as Fairness'" (Orayb Najjar); "African Americans on Television: 25 Years after Kerner" (Paula W. Matabane and Bishetta Merritt); "Only in Glimpses: Portrayal of America's Largest Minority Groups by the New York 'Times', 1934-1994" (Carolyn Martindale); "Comparing Portrayal of Women in Black and White Magazines" (Lillie M. Fears); "Fourth Census of Minorities in College Media" (Frances L. Collins and others); "Bringing Multiculturalism to Journalism and Communication Programs: A Study of the Uses and Functions of Multicultural Committees" (Toni Coleman and Lawrence Soley); and "News from the Homeland for Immigrants and Minorities in America: An Examination of International News Coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC--1990-1993" (Nilanjana Roy Bardhan). (RS)