Category: Cultural Studies
The Secretary of Education’s Plan for Better Schools
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A recent study found that only six percent of Black eight graders could pass the math section of the SAT test. On this program, Secretary Rod Paige, the first Black secretary of education and the first to hold that o...
Black Hollywood The Way It Was: The Middle Years – Pt. 3
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The Middle Years examines the history of independently produced Black movies and the establishment of a Black film era. "The Middle Years," picks up during the Depression years as independent filmmakers struggle for ...
Great Men of Color
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GREAT MEN OF COLOR: J. A. Rogers spent the majority of his lifetime pioneering the field of Black studies with his exhaustive research on the major names in Black history whose contributions or even very existence h...
Young Black Men: A Problem That Is Ignored
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The already dire situation of young Black men in the US has worsened. A study found that employment and education statistics have gotten even worse, despite improvements in the economy. A huge pool of poorly educated ...
Black Dialect
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An examination of the Black dialect and the effort to bridge the language gap between Black vernacular and Standard American English. Guests: Dr. Grace Hope, Dr. Roger Shuy, Attorney Kenneth Lewis. (311)
Black Contract with America
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Why are an increasing number of leaders in the Black church moving toward what they call the New Black Church? Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., senior pastor of the Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland and fo...
When Is Race Black or White?
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Brazil boasts the second largest Black population in the world outside of Africa, but black Brazilians constitute a large portion of the poor, similar to the demographic of the United States. However, race in Brazil c...
Visions and Images of the Struggles of Old
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Issues, events and personalities that shaped the African-American community and the nation. 1401
A Star Controversy
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In the 1970s, Star Parker was a delinquent teenager, mixed up with crime and drugs. Life on county aid was far from impoverished - she was able to lounge in her own Jacuzzi, party at Venice Beach, bring in extra inco...
America’s New Immigration Policy
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Before the terrorist acts of September 11th, America’s immigration policy was primarily focused on keeping out illegal immigrants from Mexico. The arguments for and against immigration have given way to the question...
