We Can DoThat, Too!
Feb  - Apr 2009 On the Dock and Cover Story

On the Dock

FEB - APR 2009
Volume 15 Number 1







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).

 

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!
22  Black Paper Dolls Collector

22  Weaver and Fiber Artist

23  Remote Control Modal          

      Boat Hobbyist

23  Nation Builders






DEPARTMENTS 

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
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

a Budget


HEALTH
14  Fighting Influenza

16  The Art of Listening: What

Turns Conversations

into Arguments?

IN FASHION
24  New Couture

 


RECIPE
25  Hot Cinnamon Buns

BOOK REVIEW
26  Digging to Find Oneself

COMING UP       
27 Dreamgirls, BZB Black Gift

     Shows, Kwanzaa Celebrations

     and more!


ENTERTAINMENT
28  Concrete Jungles and              

      Red Dirt Blues

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