Each year THE BLACK COLLEGIAN surveys hundreds of employers in industry, government, and business to show you who is hiring, how many are being hired, and in what fields. We have included specific discussions of the Retail Industry, the Military, Teaching, and the Hospitality Industry. We continue to focus on the process of getting a job: the job interview itself and things you can do if you do not have a job by graduation.

This is also our African-American history issue. Tour the two Civil Rights Institutes presented in this issue so that you understand where African Americans were before 1955, how The Movement dramatically changed racial attitudes in America, and where the struggle of African Americans during the Movement is recorded and preserved. We encourage you to read Maulana Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa. Karenga writes about why you must restore your African heritage and how to do so. The Narrative of Rosa Parks, our formulation from the Rosa Parks exhibit at the Memphis Civil Rights Museum, (page 155) should give you a real feel for the injustices that persist in America, in forms more subtle and less conscious today. The sculptures of John T. Scott juxtapose color and form to create an optical sense of the kinetics of dreams that will allow you to create beyond any limitations your environment imposes upon you. One of Scott's references is jazz artists, all of whom have transcended the limitations their society imposed by converting their dreams and the dreams and aspirations of African Americans into art. The title of the center piece of his Dream Window Series, several pieces of which are presented in this issue, includes a reference to Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred. Dreams deferred stink like rotten meat, although sometimes they just sag because they are such heavy loads. But sometimes they explode! Scott's focus is not the dream deferred, the dream that explodes but the dream conferred, the dream that inspires. The power that makes dreams deferred explosive makes dreams achieved uplifting.

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