There is an incongruence of the achievement orientation, on the one hand, and the culture of Black people, on the other. The dichotomy is essentially between the requirements of achievement, which stress individual effort, and features of Black culture, which stress corporate initiative and effort. (Author/EB)

Notes that equal educational opportunity, or equal preparation for life, is not simply the removal of legal barriers to non-segregated schooling. Equal educational opportunity requires a commitment of dollars and time and unstinting personal support. (Author/AM)

Discusses the literature dealing with the black family, the family as a holistic unit, the black womans' role and the myth of matriarchy, children and their place, and the changing nature of the black male and his effect upon the black family. (Author/AM)

Reviews the past accomplishments of academia with a primary focus on the assessment of these advancements on the future. (Author/AM)

Notes that the role of this publication is to act as the conscience of the nation, exposing its fault and its shortcomings, calling attention to its abuses and its ommissions and citing its successes and its progress in its sometimes successful, always halting, efforts to bring true equality to all people. (Author/AM)

Notes that the past twenty-five years have seen the evolution of works written for blacks hampered by the opinion of a white audience. There is an attempt to abandon the conventions of standard English writing, and poetry leaves the sanctuary of the classroom and takes to the streets where it is welcomed. (Author/AM)

Suggests that the arts use the black experience as inspiration for the expression of a universal idea--for all experiences--be they black, white or yellow, have certain universals which are common to all mankind. (Author/AM)

Suggests that for countless blacks imprisoned in ghettoized restrictions, and for a great many who live on the land in rural areas, the black Church has been an especially effective haven of comfort, a weapon of protest, and an instrument of escape from physical jeopardy. (Author/AM)

Among the challenges faced by the past quarter century of black education are Americanization, desegregation, compensation for those who bear scars of discrimination, the effort to make the public schools relevant to everyday life, and the effort to improve the learning process, particularly teacher involvement. (Author/AM)

Describes four distinct periods in the history of black education in this country prefacing his description by the assertion that America's genius is its ability to weld together a nation of different peoples into a workable, if not efficient, social order. (Author/AM)

Discusses development of creative performance routines by Black university marching bands in the 1950s and 1960s and the negative impact of desegregation on these bands. Deplores new emphasis on entertainment rather than musical education and creativity and calls for reexamination of Black university band programs. (CJM)

Theories explaining differences in IQ performances between races in terms of (a) genetics and (b) the role of the environment are both criticized. It is argued that the Cultural Distance Approach, which stresses the role of a subculture's distance from the major culture on which IQ questions are based, has the greatest explanatory power. (RDN)

The following instruments for measuring Black personality use the world view and cultural orientations of Africa have been developed and are described: (1) the Black Personality Questionnaire; (2) the Black Preference Inventory; (3) the Black Opinion Scale; (4) the Themes of Black Awareness Test; (5) the Themes Concerning Blacks Test; and (6) the…

Describes 17 children's books containing positive images of Black people. Most of the books are for the primary and elementary grades, though several are for older children. (MJL)

Reviews issues in black English and concludes that diagnostic tools must incorporate the cultural characteristics of black English while coping with the phenomena of language learning. (DM)