TIME Cover Stories
Hip-Hop Nation
After 20 years: How it's changed America
February 8, 1999
Toni Morrison
Paradise Found: The Nobel Prize changed Toni Morrison's life, but not her art.
January 19, 1998
Africa
Africa Rising: A new spirit of self-reliance is taking root among many Africans as they seize control of their destiny.
March 30, 1998
Michael Jordan
The One and Only: Peerless among modern superathletes: soaring, dunking, inspiring. And retiring at the top of his game.
June 22, 1998
Oprah Winfrey
Bewitching Beloved: Oprah Winfrey brought a novel of slavery powerfully to the screen
October 5, 1998
Magic Johnson
As If By Magic: After years of exile, Magic Johnson returned to show the world how to live with the AIDS virus
February 12, 1996
O.J. Simpson
O.J. And Race: An unforgettable and wrenching trial
October 9, 1995
Colin Powell
"I've got to make some choices": Retired General Colin Powell met with TIME for his first on-the-record interview about a possible run for the White House.
September 18, 1995
Rwanda
The Killing Fields Of Rwanda: Hundreds of thousands died or fled in a horrific month of tribal strife. Are these the wars of the future?
May 16, 1994
Rwanda
South Africa Reborn: Birth of a nation
May 9, 1994
TIME 100 and TIME 25 profiles
TIME100: The finest Artists & Entertainers of the 20th Century:
Louis Armstrong
Aretha Franklin
Oprah Winfrey
TIME100: The 20th Century's most important Leaders & Revolutionaries:
Martin Luther King
Nelson Mandela
The most influential Americans of 1997:
Babyface Edmonds
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Toni Morrison
Colin Powell
Tiger Woods
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
CNN and World African Network
Black History Month
1999A special report in words and pictures.
