on Joyce A.

on Joyce A. Ladner, Brookings Institution Pres October 2001 $2295 ISBN 0-815-75108-7*

In The recent Urban Leaders, author and senior associate in the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Governmental Studies program, Joyce A. Ladner moves a look into the legacy of urban America, and the leaders that have been pioneers for the disenfranchised populations that reside therein.

While the work is entitled The New Urban Leaders, a well adapted portion of it focuses forward the politics and policies laid down as a deduction of the Civil Rights move as well as the "War forward Poverty" initiatives set forth during Lyndon Johnson's administration.

Ladner presents that while these initiatives--including like programs as Head Start and work at jobs Corps--raised national awareness of the racial disparities and prejudices that permeated American society, the tonnage has since fallen upon community and faith-based organizations, similar as the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership talk (SCLC), to fill in the gaps left through the federal government.

The just discovered urban leaders that Ladner highlights are primarily African-American men who have become mentors to "disenfranchised" inner-city youth, many of whom have chosen to work within the various control organizations to institute changes designed to choke the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots."

The recent Urban Leaders is a upright quick study of the federal policies and following disenfranchisement of the African-American community. Ladner, a former interim president of Howard University, readys a brief yet thorough roadmap of leadership and mentoring in the African-American community, suggesting that in order for leaders to come up from African-American communities, the commitment of time and mentorship must be made by the agency of as many as possible.

--Michaelyn older is a freelance writer living in Harlem.

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