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A Can Do Lady

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Facing a monumental crisis in public education today, leaders in various sectors of society are searching for answers to poor academic achievement.  Surprisingly, one shining example of academic excellence can be foun...

Schools: What’s The Plan?

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Dr. Rudy Crew is the Superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public School System and author of Only Connect: The Way to Save our Schools. Dr. Crew says if we are to survive, we must place our schools at the center of...

A LEAD-ing Chance

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The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program at Wharton engages youth of diverse backgrounds in the world of business. Founded at Wharton in 1980 by Harold Haskins and Bill Whitney. Guest: William Elliott, ...

Tuskegee Airmen — Clipped Wings – Pt. 1

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The pilots of America’s WWII armed forces were highly skilled flyers who became the stars of war stories and the ingredients of legends.   These pilots were and are the first line of defense, the protectors of our fl...

Character vs. Race — Part 2

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Hampton University is one of the nation’s most prestigious historical Black universities.  In 1999, it was cited as one of the top regional universities in the South.  At the beginning of Hampton University’s 131st ac...

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...

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...

Are College Scholarships Quotas?

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Guests: Roger Watkins and Tom Hayden  (1405) 

The Good Guys

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The Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) is one of the nation’s leading information technology organizations. Renee McClure, BDPA’s national president, and John Hoffler, president of the St. Louis chapter of BDPA, ...

75 Good Men & Women

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Knoxville College, a historical Black college in Knoxville, Tennessee, survived an almost fatal blow with the help of two talented and dedicated Black women who decided that they were not going to let it fail.  Knoxvi...