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Articles in May 26, 1997 issue of Jet

• Altovise Davis, wife of late entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., settles $7 million dispute with IRS against husband's estate
• Cornell University students protest, call campus newspaper's ebonics article racist
• Hunter-Gault to leave PBS 'NewsHour.'
• Experts tell how to set age-appropriate limits for teens
• Black buying power projected to surpass $450 billion in 1997: study
• First black Labor Secretary Alexis Herman recalls she learned perseverance from her father
• Beautician Cornelia Preston continues to do hair at 93 in Pascagoula, MS
• Army's top enlisted man denies sexual misconduct charges
• National Conference of Black Mayors holds 23rd annual convention in St. Louis
• More inner-city women use condoms in addition to hormonal birth control
• Eddie Murphy maintains his innocence after picking up 20-year-old transvestite prostitute
• The Jackson 5, Parliament-Funkadelic inducted into Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame
• Why teen sex rate is decreasing
• HIV infection is no. 1 killer for black women ages 25-44; virus often undetected: study
• Roaches cause asthma in inner-city kids: study
• Former prostitute names former pimp in 1963 Manhattan murder
• Government to use affirmative-action measures in some industrial contracts
• Phoenix Suns star Kevin Johnson announces retirement from professional basketball
• L. Claude McKay: May 23, 1948
• Tubby Smith to be first black coach at Kentucky
• Phillip S. Schaengold
• Family of Charger killed in ValuJet crash to receive $28 million settlement
• Mary J. Blige: at peace with hit new album and positive outlook on life
• High-ranking Pittsburgh business woman commits suicide amidst job shake-up