Reviews the history and accomplishments of Tuskegee Institute over the past 100 years. Highlights the role played by Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois; discusses the career of the school's retiring president, Luther Foster. Provides information on the new president, Dr. Benjamin Payton, and discusses future directions for the college. (APM)

Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP since 1977, relates the history, achievements, and activities of this organization. A biography of Hooks accompanies the interview. (DM)

Today, the Schomburg Center is the largest, most comprehensive and most heavily used resource center devoted exclusively to documenting history, literature, art, and culture of people of African descent in the world. (Author/MC)

Black women have emerged as leaders because they are the most stable forces within Black communities, go to the polls in greater numbers, organize and unite for service for their communities, and are politically active. (CMG)

Suggests that while for white Americans rugged individualism has meant the chance to explore, to dare, to seek, to dream and to become famous, to the black American it has meant the need to struggle, to fight, to try to become immune to oppression, and to use whatever skills nature has given him to serve his people. (Author/AM)

Provides a profile on Edward Hector, Oliver Cromwell, Prince Whipple, and James Farten who were black heroes of the Revolutionary War. (AM)

Relates the founding of the NAACP and critical events in its history. Describes the organization's present headquarters, resources, and aims. (DM)

Describes the career of a man who was born a slave, became the first Black chaplain in the United States Army, and founded the first all-Black city in the United States, Allensworth (California). Emphasizes his belief in the importance of education. (FMW)

Resolutions are adopted in eleven areas such as civil rights, higher education, foreign affairs, housing, internal affairs, labor and industry, political action, youth work, armed services and veterans affairs, and hospital, health, and social welfare. (AM)

The work of Black leaders and organizations from 1896 to 1954 is reviewed. Discussed are Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP, the National Urban League, Marcus Garvey, Arthur A. Schomberg, Carter G. Woodson, Charles S. Johnson, and A. Philip Randolph. (MC)

A short history of black pop music includes artists who have changed pop music or culture and highlights from the 1920s into the 1980s, from Fats Waller to Michael Jackson. In black pop music, there is a direct line of influence from the sharecropper to the current Top 40. (SLD)

The resolutions listed in this article concern the following topics: the armed services and veterans affairs; civil rights; communication; education; health, hospitals, and welfare; housing; internal affairs; international affairs; labor; political action; youth work; and miscellaneous problems. Emergency resolutions are also included. (MC)

The roles of the black woman are said to be many and varied, the variance occurring in relation to socio-economic status, educational level, age, and marital status. Their roles in American society are stated to consist in a set of paradoxes.

Resolutions adopted June 28-July 2, 1976 concerned the School Desegregation Standards and Assistance Act of 1976, Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Economic Development, Foreign Affairs, Hospitals, Health, Social Welfare, Housing, Internal Affairs, Labor, Industry, Voting, Communications and Youth Work. (JM)