May - July 2008 issue

5/02/08 - 5/15/08
Another D.C. Area Black Institution Threatens Closure/Obama Wins? Blacks Takes Over?


4/18/08 - 5/01/08
Obama Draws Integrated Crowd in Chocolate City


4/4/08 - 4/17/08
The Middle Passage - Stories of Survival: 
"My Ex-Husband, The Church, and I"

3/21/08 - 4/3/08
The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl

Florence Ballard

3/7/08 - 3/20/08
Gambians React to Obama's Success / U.S. Jail Population Soars!

2/22/08-3/6/08
Free Jazz Concerts - Washington, D.C. /
Ask Tyrone . . .


2/8/08 - 2/21/08
Your Comments on Karibu’s Historic Closing

 01/25/08 - 2/7/08
Terrence Howard and Phylicia Rashad in
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1/11/08 - 01/24/08
Census Report:  Reasons Black People
Do Not Work


12/28/07 - 01/10/08
The Brothers Size Opens at Studio Theater - DC


12/14/07 - 12/27/07
Otis Redding – from Macon to Memphis Opens


11/2907 - 12/13/07
Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson Pen Commemorative Song

11/16/07 - 11/29/07
Healthy Cooking at Home:
Soulful Cooking for the Holidays


11/02/07 - 11/15/07
Bill in U.S. Senate for Housing Racist Murderers


10/19/07 - 11/01/07
Afro-Latinos at TransAfrica - Washington


10/05/07 - 10/18/07
“I Don’t Suppose to Be Here” -
Michelle Obama in Washington

09/20/07 - 10/04/07
Eddie Levert Comes to the
Mall at Prince George’s - Free

09/07/07 - 09/20/07
Ethiopians / Harlemites Celebrate Year 2000 on Ethiopian Calendar

08/24/07 - 09/06/07
New Video on First Black to Sail Around the World

08/10/07 - 08/23/07
Arena Stage Expands DISCOUNT Ticket Program
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In the current print issue
May - July 2008
Volume 14 Number 2

COVER STORY
20  Love, Nature and Happiness

Loving nature is more than an academic exercise for Lavell Merritt, Jr., a Texas A&M University Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences doctoral student.  He first met his wife, Andrea, on U Street, NW in the nation’s capital after spending 15 days fighting fires in Utah as a National Park Service ranger.  The native Washingtonian would later discover that his future wife also has an appreciation for nature (when they met she worked for the Audubon Naturalist Society as an environmental educator). Today, he has turned his love for the outdoors into his profession.

FOCUS:  Green and Black

22 Planetwalker
23 Back Home

FEATURE:  
24 Ten Tips for Improving Your
      Photography

DEPARTMENTS 

2 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE PUBLISHER’S POINT
4  Intimacy with Nature

THE OTHER SIDE
5 The Power of Prayer

PRAISING THE PAST

6 A Cold Case Without a Trace

In Fashion
 7  Femi Samuel

Money Matters
8 Marriage Alternatives


OUR SPACE
10 National Architects
      Organization Elects First
      Black President

TRAVEL STORY
12 The Mere Line

HEALTH
14 Gladys Knight on Diabetes
16 Do You Know Your
      Pharmacist?


RECIPE
25 Buttermilk Wheat Germ
      Pancakes with Yogurt and
      Blueberry Sauce


BOOK REVIEW
26 On the Road to Freedom:  A
     Guided Tour of the Civil Rights
     Trail


COMING UP       
27 Hampton University Ministers'
      Conference, Artscape, An
      Evening with Charlie Cobb
      and more

ENTERTAINMENT
28 The Gospel of Dorothy
      Norwood


COVER CREDITS
Native Washingtonian, National Park Service Ranger, and Texas A&M University Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences doctoral student Lavell Merritt, Jr.  canoeing on Woodlake at the rear of his Texas home.  Photo by Jerren Willis.




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