Building Your Own Castle
Aug 2004  - Oct 2004 On the Dock and Cover Story

On the Dock

AUG 2004 - OCT 2004
Volume 10 Number 3





COVER CREDITS
Photograph by Nestor Hernández

COVER STORY
30 Building Your Own Castle

Noted architect Melvin Mitchell explores the affordability of custom designed homes, the significance of Americans owning a home, and the work of architects Genell Anderson, who graces our cover, and James Washington, Jr.

FOCUS:  Home
24  A Piece of the Rock for Modest Income Households

25 Finishing Touches

26 Building Your Own Castle

FEATURE
Segregation Tax

DEPARTMENTS 

4   LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE PUBLISHER’S POINT
5  Home

6  Gambian President visits U.S.

PRAISING THE PAST
8 Natural Hair

THE OTHER SIDE
9 Call Home


THE MIDDLE PASSAGE: 

A STORY OF SURVIVIAL

10 Malcolm X Helped Me Get Through College


BOOK REVIEW
12  A Life Before and After Malcolm X: Betty Shabazz

PARENTING
13 Education Starts at Home

MONEY TALKS
14  A Home of Your Own

15  Getting the Word Out

TRAVEL
16 Welcome to Nigeria

HEALTH
18  Coming Home With a Cure

19  Lyme Disease

20  The Black Doctors Diet Solution for Black Women

RECIPE
29 Barbecue Ribs

Jamaican Style

POETRY PIER

30  Self Portrait With Rain

ADVERTISERS LIST

32 Use this list to find our advertisers quickly

COMING UP       
32 Greater New York Black Memorabilia Show and more

ENTERTAINMENT

32 The Tyler Texas Black

Film Collection

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