APF Reporter Vol. 15 #4

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	The Grand Coulee: Savior For Whites, Disaster For Indians Blaine Harden COULEE DAM, WASHINGTON - Halfway across a narrow steel bridge over America's most powerful river, a sign announces the entrance to the Colville Indian Reservation. The sign is small and easily missed in the vast gorge that cradles the roiling Columbia River. The modest sign poses a question whose answer may come to rattle the most profitable pillar of the federal government's public-works empire in the West.
The Costly "Banks" That Welcome The Poor Mike Hudson Pawn shops and check-cashing outlets-their cousins in the down scale financial market-are shedding their images as shady, inner-city operators. Since 1987, the number of check cashers has jumped from slightly more than 2,000 to an estimated 5,000. In the past decade the number of pawn shops has doubled to an estimated 10,000.
	Opportunity's Dance with One North Carolina Family Charlise Lyles It was 1968. Arnetra Johnson, a black woman raising four bright-eyed babies alone in a rural North Carolina trailer park, was holding fast to the dream just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had laid it out: black boys and white boys sitting side by side in the same classroom. She agreed: one day her children would attend the great integrated schools up north, far from the unenlightened, still segregated south. Didn't her youngsters deserve the finest institutions America had to offer?
	Willie Brown: The Early Years James D. Richardson He has been elected by his peers seven times as Speaker of the California State Assembly and has wielded power now for 12 years. He has been speaker through the terms of three governors-speaker longer than anyone in the state's history.
	Photo Essay: Gangs of East Los Angeles Joseph Rodriguez Joseph Rodriguez, a freelance photographer who has worked fore Pacific News Service and National Geographic and is affiliated with Black Star, is photographing the gangs of East Los Angeles during his Alicia Patterson fellowship year. He lives in Los Angeles.
	Adding Up The Latino Fractions Roberto Suro Alice Salazar worries about the changes that newcomers are bringing to the Houston neighborhood her family has called home since the turn of the century when her grandparents immigrated from Mexico.