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This classic, one-volume reference work now indexes more than 35 journals, both popular and scholarly, representing the rich culture and current history of African Americans. Among the topics treated in each edition of the annual Index are gender issues, literature, education, business, discrimination, health care and the arts. Interviews, obituaries and book and drama reviews are also included. The Index is international in scope, including African countries and regions, but its emphasis is on the extraordinary diversity of the African American experience. Authors, subjects and numerous cross-references are combined in a single, convenient alphabetical arrangement. The Index formerly appeared under the titles "Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks, Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes" and "Index to Selected Periodicals By and About Negroes." G.K. Hall published a ten-year cumulation of the "Index" covering the years 1950-1959 and began publishing the "Index" on an annual basis in 1961. The volumes from 1961 forward were published in conjunction with The Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio; The New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History also participated during the years 1960-1970. In mid-1984, G.K. Hall assumed editorial responsibility for the "Index. " Periodicals indexed include: "About Time African American Pulpit, The African American Review Afro-Americans in New York Life and History American Legacy American Visions Black Enterprise Black Issues in Higher Education Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir Black Scholar Callaloo CLA Journal V Crisis Ebony Emerge Equity and Excellence in Education Heart & Soul Howard Journal of Communications International Review of African-American Jet Journal of Black Psychology, The Journal of Black Studies Jour