Category: Political Studies
Black America, The Republicans are Coming
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President Bush’s victory in 2004 increased his percentage of Black voters by two percent, and pushed the Democrats in Congress even deeper in the minority. How are Black Democrats responding to Bush’s campaign to att...
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...
A Rap with Colin L. Powell
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A discussion of Gen. Colin Powell and whether Americans would elect a black President. (1918)
2003 Supreme Court Decision and Affirmative Action
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What did Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor really mean in her majority opinion on affirmative action in the University of Michigan ruling? Does it signal the end of affirmative action? Michael Higginbotham, a ...
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 (...
10 Years After the Rodney King Riots
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Business leader Bernard Kinsey, the former co-chair of Rebuild LA, discusses the impact of the Rodney King riots, where Los Angeles was then, where it is today, and why he believes that it is poised for a period of em...
Politics: New Black Power? — Part 1
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1984 program examines politics and Black America Guests: Rev. Joseph Lowery and Joseph Madison (624)
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 Y2K Problem
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In year 2000 the Assistant Secretary of Defense stated that “we are going to be in the biggest operational test the world has ever seen.” It has become known as the Y2K problem. 2103
