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A Nation Divided

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This edition examines the causes and effects of the Rodney King verdict, the ensuing riots and America's underlying racial tensions. This round-table discussion also focuses on race relations between Blacks, Whites an...

One-on-One with Andrew Hacker

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Prof. Andrew Hacker, the author of the controversial book Two Nations: Black And White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, is distressed by White America and its "unearned privileges." In this provocative and candid intervi...

African Versus European Culture

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Afrocentric historians have challenged the Eurocentric world-view of African history and culture. In his newest work, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, author of The Afrocentric Idea, boldly confronts critics of Afrocentric th...

From Right to Left: The Politics of Glenn Loury

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Glenn Loury, the first Black professor of economics at Harvard University and a leading Black conservative, discusses his battle with drugs, his ideological evolution from conservative to independent, and his new book...

Moral Rot?

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While the legal ramifications of Bill Clinton’s problems caused by his sexual activities can result in a Congressional censure or slap on the wrist, the probe into his deeper moral and psychological motives are just b...

Malcolm X and Judas

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MALCOLM X AND JUDAS: Karl Evanzz, who spent 15 years uncovering more than 300,000 pages of previously classified and hidden information about Malcolm X's assassination, compiled his findings in an explosive new book...

How To Profile The Bad Guys

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Opinion polls show that most people publicly condemn racial profiling by police officers, but that many privately feel that underlying the practice is a national and effective police tactic. Since America’s heighten...

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 (...