This symposium publication consists of 26 presentations. Papers are "'How to Eat an Oreo': Using African American Research through Personal Narrative To Analyze Ethnic Dysmorphic Phenomenon" (Ashford); "Authentic Members: Uncovering Adult Children" (Barnes); "What Good Is Government? Assessment of Government Official Impact on Black Businesses" (Benjamin); "Linking the South with the South in the Northern Illinois University Adult Education (AE) Graduate Program" (Cunningham, Shim); "Caring" (Dixon); "Community Empowerment Through Participatory Research: Case Study of Citizen Participation in Town Hall Meeting Planning and Implementation" (Easley); "Missing Piece: Evaluating Educational Software" (Ellens-Sanders); "Is There Room for Self-Directed Learning in AE?" (Fuentes); "In Our Own Images: Using Photography for Empowerment Through Critical Literacy" (Gallo); "Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas Movement" (Germain); "Christianity from the Perspective of African Peoples" (Gittens); "Time for Truth: Women of Color and the National Women's Studies Association: Critical Ethnographic Analysis" (Garth); "Where Do They Come from: African-American Nurses Tell Their Stories" (Stevens); "Afrikana Church's Role in Educating Afrikana Adults: Moving from Emotionalism to Activism, Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Chicago" (Kirkwood); "Impact of Globalization on the South" (Kjellquist-Gutierrez); "Generating Knowledge from the Field: Study of the Clinical Decisions of Social Workers" (Mann); "Analysis of the Moynihan Report: New Look in the New Millennium" (McCoy); "Blacks in the Old West" (Porter); "Relationship Between Poverty and Adult Literacy: Highlights of the Pilot Study of Poor, Urban Single Mothers in Gaborone, Botswana" (Raditloaneng); "Exploring the Woman Superintendent's Career Paths" (Regan); "Who Will Lead: Examination of Black Male Leadership Theory and Development" (Rice-Charleston); "Afritics: Interpreting the Political Style of African American Women as Political Leaders" (Rogers); "Constructing Curriculum in and for Alternative Settings: Designing a Quality Community-Based Art and Entrepreneurship Program Model for Inner City Youth" (Simpson); "Expanding the Small Space: AE as Counter Colonial Force--Rastafari as an Example of the Potential of AE to Support a Large View of Social Reality" (Stanley); "I Think I Can Cognitions" (Stuckey); and "Academic Success of Unmarried African-American Female High School Students Who Are Parenting: Preliminary Analysis" (Stuckey). (YLB)