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How Much Do Blacks Pay for Being Black?

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No matter how hard Blacks work or how well educated they become, they cannot close the well-being gap with Whites unless they significantly improve their accumulated investments. That is the conclusion of Professor Th...

The Black Male in Jeopardy

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He won the Best Columnist honor from Editor and Publisher magazine, the award in commentary for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Columnist of the Year...

Dr. Lerone Bennett: His-Story

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His-Story: Black History’s Little-Known Facts. A discussion of little-known facts about the history made Blacks with Dr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., famed historian, scholar, and author of "Before the Mayflower," “What Ma...

White Riot

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Guests: Robert Brown, Esq., Mayor, Orange, NJ and Abraham Foxman, National Director Anti-Defamation League  (1826)

Does Culture Trump Race?

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According to scientific studies, all humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical.  However, the Atlantic slave trade was based on skin color, which scientists say is determined by only six of 40,000 genes or just on...

The BlackPoor

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As founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Robert Woodson is considered by some to be the godfather of the movement to empower neighborhood-based organizations.   Woodson discusses th...

Taking Blame for the Shame

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Is the poor self-image of many Blacks self-inflicted or is it the result of some insidious outside force?  Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts, Jr., who is a syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald and autho...

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) 

Politics and Policy: War and Race

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How will the politics and policies of American life change following the devastating events of September 11th?  Will this new alignment create political and cultural unity?  What is the response of the Muslim American...