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The headlines read: Is the GOP Serious About Getting Black Votes? An Afrocentric Approach to Language Planning. The Psychology of Sexual Racism and AIDS. She s Got Your Back: Sister Support Groups. Ralph Ellison Remembered by Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Johnson. These are just some of the titles covered by the Index to Black Periodicals, the single-source guide to articles appearing each year in all major black American popular and scholarly journals. Students, scholars, and librarians have relied on this index since 1950 for exclusive coverage in the field of black studies. Among the areas covered in each edition are women-related issues, literature, education, economics, discrimination, health care, and the arts. Interviews, obituaries, and book and drama reviews are also included. Approximately 1,500 entries are arranged by subject and author in convenient dictionary format with extensive cross-referencing. 1997