An examination of the personalities of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Frederick Douglass within the framework of Maslow's theoretical model of the self-actualizing person. (EH)

Explores the perplexing process of the education of black students in America, the rudiments of which derive from the philosophies underlying early forms of formal instruction as well as the various and sundry repressive patterns and processes of pedagogy which have characterized the education of black students. (Author/JM)

Identifies characteristics of the "bad nigger" image, establishes its historical consistency, and explores its significance in Afro-American literature. Though this study is not exhaustive, it is comprehensive enough to point to an image that is persistently shown in the literature. (Author)

This article suggests that black visibility does not constitute black political power. (Author/AM)

Describes several seriously mistaken judgments underlying the development of compensatory higher education programs for disadvantaged black college students, and describes the task of black professionals in the field of education as role models and as enabling agents to help revolutionize the higher education process. (Author/JM)

Notes that although the slave narratives were usually intended to serve in the cause of abolition, not all of them were bitter, unrelieved tirades against the institution of slavery, but rather there were frequently moments of relieving laughter. (Author)

Notes that for Baraka poetry has a two-fold purpose: it is a vehicle for expressing his disgust as well as a vehicle for expressing his hopes. He is always concerned with raising consciousness, with stimulating people, with identity and progress and with cultural awareness. (Author)

Argues that there is a distinctively American way of thought, character, and conduct which ought to include experiences of black people. (Author/JM)

Examination of its historical development indicates that while Congressional Black Caucus legislative priorities have become more focused, on the other hand these priorities are not the result of a careful analysis of what is or is not a black issue but rather of the economic climate which led to concentration on economic issues. (Author/AM)

Concludes that in spite of the small number of black women office holders, they have been able to maneuver themselves to be on target when critical issues are of concern to their legislative districts. (Author/AM)

The major proposition in this essay is that black politics is moving from the tumultuous politics of idealistic protest to a cautious politics of backlash pragmatism. (Author)

Theories which hold blacks to be culturally "disadvantaged" or "deficient" lead to erroneous conceptions and harmful educational practices, for they fail to recognize the essentially unique cultural patterns of the black community that make its members distinctively different. If a label is needed, culturally Afro-American is perhaps the best…

Suggests that the American political system has generated and sustained a culture of total power and participation for whites and a culture of total powerlessness and exclusivity for blacks. (Author/AM)

Argues that the different set of temporal norms governing the behavior of blacks is attributable to at least two ascertainable causes: (1) a carry over of the traditional West African concept of time in which the cosmology and ontological hierarchy of existence dictated temporal behaviors much different from the Westernized concept of time; and…

The result of this research study indicates that black parents have more influence on their children's academic performance in the later grades than they do in the earlier grades, although the magnitude of this influence remains relatively small. (Author)