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Is Federal Policy Threatening Black Middle Class?

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Blacks represent barely 13 percent of the population, but nearly 40 percent of the total federal workforce.  It has been estimated that this statistic represents nearly 80 percent of the Black middle class.  What woul...

Race Wars

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Thomas Chittum, a former soldier of fortune, Vietnam veteran and author of “Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America.” According to Chittum, America’s non-WASP populations are responsible for turning America into a...

Walter White

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During the tenure of Walter White as the second Black executive secretary of the NAACP, Blacks were routinely lynched by White mobs in the 1930s.  White used his Nordic appearance to investigate hate crimes against Af...

South Africa: Time Running Out?

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Time did run out for apartheid. (509)

The Black Leaders Summit of 1972 and the 1998 Follow Up: Part I

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An unprecedented gathering of the top Black leaders in 1972 appeared in a live 90-minute special, among the guests: Charles Diggs, Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, Albert Cleage, Jr., Dick Gregory, and Elijah Muhammad (...

Bill Clinton: Unreported Stories

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Allegations and criticisms escalated in the Monica Lewinsky controversy, a book about President Clinton raised new questions. Author Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a journalist at the Telegraph newspaper in London, talks ab...

Benjamin Banneker: Truth To Power

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Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital. In 1753, at the age of 22, Banneker constructed a striking wooden clo...

Perils of the Presidency

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While opinion polls have long served as acceptable barometers for predicting the outcome of political elections, this program takes an unorthodox approach and asks an astrologer to fill in the blanks.  Bob Marks, who ...

The GOP From an Insider Black

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The Trent Lott affair has set off a firestorm of political introspection and soul searching in both major political parties.  Robert A. George, a columnist for The New York Post and a Republican, defended the presence...

Will The Black Vote Help the GOP?

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What is the Republican strategy to win the Black vote in the 2004 presidential election?  The Black vote is the Democratic Party’s most reliable voting bloc, but will young Blacks change that reality?  Lynette Clemets...