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Articles in Feb-March, 1994 issue of American Visions

• Our children, our hope - 1994 Artists' Salute to Black History Month in Los Angeles, California
  by Anthony C. Murphy
• Elizabeth Catlett: pulling against the grain - African American printmaker and sculptor
  by Curtia James
• I hear America singing: the roots of American music - work of musicologist Alan Lomax to document and record Southern folk music
  by Allan Wood
• Learning from ancestral bones: New York's exhumed African past - burial artifacts from New York, New York are transferred to Howard University
  by Harriet Jackson Scarupa
• Blackside's Henry Hampton: telling and selling the truth - Blackside Inc., minority-owned, documentary film production company
  by K. Anthony Norris
• Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival - University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, February 23-26, 1994
  by Anthony C. Murphy
• A roundup of reference reads - reference books and sets about black history and culture
  by David Nicholson
• The lady, the law and rap - profile of entertainment lawyer Denise Brown-Noel
  by Michael Robinson
• And the World Laughs With You - Crossroads Theatre, New Brunswick, New Jersey previews works by black playwrights during Genesis 1993 Festival
  by Anthony C. Murphy
• On being African-American: proud, enduring hyphenation - excerpt from 1993 book 'W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919' by David Levering Lewis
  by David Levering Lewis
• Retracing the legacy - remembering deceased genealogist James Dent Walker
  by Nancee Lyons
• Arsenio Hall: comedy is his sword, painting his shield - talk show host - Interview - Cover Story
  by Joanne Harris
• The Book and the Cook - restaurants and cookbook authors/chefs join in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's 10th annual event, March 17-27, 1994
  by Rosemarie P. Harris
• Detroit and the Motown legacy - history of the sound recording industry that launched the careers of various black singers and groups; collections of the Motown Historical Museum - includes related article on the changing image and renaissance of Detroit,
  by Allyson Webb