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Tami Navarro organizes a series of essays that respond to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the travesty of inept response and the relief that failed to arrive in the wake of that powerful storm. Articles were contributed by Mark Anthony Neal, Maurice Wallace, Kevin Michael Foster, Fanon Che Wilkins, and Wahneema Lubiano.

New Directions in Latino Youth Cultures have all presented great opportunities to discuss one of the contemporary popular music genres most closely associated with Latino youth - a genre that is also closely tied to hip-hop, dancehall reggae and other global pop genres.

Russia repositions some troops, but increases attacks in the south, as Ukrainian civilians resort to desperate attempts to escape the war zone. President Biden announces plans to release one million barrels of oil per day from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower gas prices. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren discusses Jared Kushner's appearance before the January 6 Committee. The transgender community marks a day of visibility, as more state laws target LGBTQ youth. An economic historian discusses the global impact of sanctions on Russia. How is the slapping incident at the Oscars sparking difficult, but important conversations? GUESTS: Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Mark Anthony Neal, Raquel Willis, Patrick De Haan, Zoe Lofgren

As the country marks Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., systemic racism is examined. George Floyd's killing sparks protests in Africa, condemnation of the United States, and demands for equality. Health officials say they save lives in the pandemic, but Americans are increasingly divided over whether to wear masks. Mark Shields and David Brooks break down the week's political news, from the reaction to John Bolton's book to the Supreme Court's immigration ruling. GUESTS: Ranit Mishori, Mark Anthony Neal

Re \"Saggin' pants,\" by Mark Anthony Neal (Nov. 7): Mr. Neal says the mainstream public equates saggin' (pants that \"sag\" to show their butt) with criminality. Then he asks if saggin' would be seen as such a public nuisance if young black males weren't already viewed as such?

In mid-September, the Stellar Committee announced it was sending out 4,000 new ballots to its voting academy -- minus Kanye West. \"It was a mistake,\" [Erma Gray Davis] said in an interview. \"Even though that song was wonderful, that was not a gospel album. Kanye, we love you darling, don't be upset with us, it's not personal.\"

Thanks to Jesus Walks, a hit single by hip-hop superproducer- turned-artist Kanye West, the name of Jesus has been blasting over car stereos, moving taut bodies in the clubs and racing up the mainstream hip-hop charts all summer.

  \"Just don't take a hug too far,\" he warns. \"If a hug becomes a mug, then you've got problems. You just have to know what that line is.\" \"What often happens when you meet somebody the first time, the other people you already know, so you hug them, and then you say, `I'm going to have to hug you too,' \" he says. Otherwise, he says, if the new guy has his hand out, ready for a firm clench, \"what I will normally do is say, `Hey, I'm a hugger, not a shaker,' and basically take my hug.\" \"If I was greeting a white guy, I would probably never go for the hug, it would always immediately be the handshake,\" says [Mark Anthony Neal], author of the just-released book \"New Black Man,\" about black masculinity in the 21st century. \"In the case of black males, particularly around my age, 40, it's the hip-hop hug: a handshake, you pull yourselves together, and you bump.\"

Though more white women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, black women are far more likely to die from the disease. Breast cancer, like fibroids and osteoporosis, is yet another example of a disease that is often referred to as simply a woman's disease. I suspect that many men begin to think dismissively about the health issues that disproportionately affect women when they are told as boys that it was mommy's time of the month. Nevertheless, black men must take greater responsibility in increasing their awareness of the diseases that afflict our mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends. For example, some studies have shown that 80 percent of all black women suffer from some form of fibroid disease. Could you imagine a disease that afflicted 80 percent of black men that black women would be largely ignorant of? Of course not. But such ignorance is largely the product of a society that continually devalues issues that are critical to black women.