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Articles in April-May 1994 issue of American Visions

• Discovering orchestral composers - Anthony Kelley, whose career was enhanced by winning a Detroit Symphony Orchestra competition
• African-American artists' passionate visions: generations rediscovering - tribute to African American folk art - excerpt from essay 'Artists, Folk and Trained: An African-American Perspective' in exhibit catalog 'Passionate Visions of the American South:
  by Lowery Stokes Sims
• Billy. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• Selected Poems. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• The cost of digging up your roots - African American genealogy
  by Herman Mason, Jr.
• An outpouring of respect - April 1994 tribute to Kenyan expatriate Ngugi wa Thiong'o to be held at Pennsylvania State University
• Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White. - book reviews
  by David Nicholson
• Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• The Price You Pay. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• Marcus Roberts: tradition with vision - newly appointed musical director of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, New York, New York
  by Douglas Turner
• Shopping around: antique villages, outdoor markets and retail stores - Maryland's African American Culture: A Guide to Maryland's African American Attractions and Events - Directory
  by Henry Chase
• An interactive Niagara movement - American Visions and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation sponsor African-American Computer Culture Symposium, January, 1994, to address how the projected information superhighway will contribute to addressing social iss
  by Timothy L. Jenkins
• Y.E.S. to Jobs - Youth Entertainment Summer to Jobs program, based in Los Angeles, California, sponsors summer internships for minority youths
• Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America. - book reviews
  by David Nicholson
• Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying - the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor That Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• Black operators in heritage touring - African Americans who conduct historical tours of black heritage in various communities - includes sample list of tour operators in Alabama, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South
  by R.S. Kolemaine
• Hard-Headed Women - actress Rhodessa Jones' play 'Big-Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women' about women prison inmates
• Final outcome? Fifty years after the Port Chicago mutiny - includes related article on Navy's investigation into the September 1944 court martial case
  by Robert L. Allen
• William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro. - book reviews
  by David Nicholson
• Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• Changing the culinary landscape - career opportunities for African American gourmet chefs
  by Milford Prewitt
• Maryland's black bounty - state's rich African American heritage - Maryland's African American Culture: A Guide to Maryland's African American Attractions and Events
  by Henry Chase
• Three women speak their minds - exhibit of three African American women artists, Carole Byard, Dori Lemeh and Evelyn Patricia Terry at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin - includes schedule information for the artists' other exhibit
• Going downhill fast: The National Brotherhood of Skiers - predominantly African American group that sponsors skiers
  by Anthony C. Murphy
• The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt. - book reviews
  by David Nicholson
• Juba to Jive: The Dictionary of African-American Slang. - book reviews
  by Gary A. Puckrein
• Jennifer Lewis' quest for meaning - TV and film actress performs in her one-woman play 'The Diva Is Dismissed'
  by Marlena Donohue
• Roots and reunions: family reunions Maryland Style - suggestions for African American family celebrations of kinship and lineage - Maryland's African American Culture: A Guide to Maryland's African American Attractions and Events
  by Luwanda Jenkins