4/30/09 - 5/13/09

On the Dock

NOV 2009 - APR 2010
Volume 15 Number 4

COVER STORY
20 Teen Makes

Medical Discovery

Tony Hansberry II is only 15, but he has already made a contribution to medical science. He developed a new way of sewing up women after they have had a hysterectomy, an operation where surgeons remove a woman's uterus.

Hansberry's discovery stands to reduce the risk of complications women can have from the surgery and simplify the tricky procedure for less-seasoned surgeons. It will have a positive affect on the lives of many women since hysterectomies are the second most common surgery, after Cesarean section deliveries, among women in the United States. And one in three women in the United States has had a hysterectomy by age 60.

FOCUS: 

We Can Do That, Too
23  Black Paper Dolls Collector

23  Weaver and Fiber Artist

23  Remote Control Model

Boat Hobbyist

23  Black Paper Dolls Collector

FEATURE:  
24  Learning to Hate School:

Getting Over Rewards

DEPARTMENTS 
2   LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE PUBLISHER’S POINT
4 Will Print Publications Go The

Way of the Walkman

PRAISING THE PAST
5  What’s in a Name?

THE OTHER SIDE

6  I Found Love in Port of Harlem

MONEY MATTERS
8  Are Black Organizations

Still Relevant?

OUR SPACE

10  Waiting to Exhale: Black

Architects Selected to

Design Black History

Museum on the National Mall

TRAVEL STORY

12  Carnival in Shreveport

on Budget

HEALTH
14  Fighting Influenza

16  The Art of Listening: What

Turns Conversations

Into Arguments

IN FASHION
24  New Coutures

RECIPE
25  Hot Cinnamon Buns

BOOK REVIEW
26  Digging to Find Oneself

COMING UP       
27  Dream girls, BZB Black Gift

Shows, Kwanzaa Celebrations

and more!

ENTERTAINMENT
28 Concrete Jungles and Red

Dirt Blues

COVER CREDIT

Original painting by Larry Walker #258749 / 530711A; Northern State Prison; 168 Frontage Rd AE3; Newark, NJ 07114. See additional Walker originals at Attitude Exact Gallery, 739 8th Street, SE; Washington, D.C. 20003 (202.546.7186).