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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...

Blacks Divided

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Dr. Carol Swain, a professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University and author of Debating Immigration, will explore the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the U. S. (3017)

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...

Has America Had Five Black Presidents?

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An investigation of five U. S. presidents who were alleged to have Black ancestry, in J. A. Rogers’ book “The Five Negro Presidents.” (Note: If true, Barack Obama would be the sixth bi-racial American president.) G...

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...

Black College Day

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Black College Day, 1980 -- a march and rally held in Washington, D.C. -- is the focus of this program. Issues addressed include the impact of integration on Black colleges and the need for increased public support for...

His Own Man

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As Pastor of the legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III has been in the vanguard of community activism.  His battles against moral corruption are well-documented in the press and a re...

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...

Blacks Running for President

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Are presidential candidates Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun, a former U. S. Senator, the best choices from among the nation’s Black leadership?  Will Sharpton emerge as the most powerful Black in the Democratic Pa...

Is it Racism or Excuses?

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In a Newsweek poll many Blacks believed that the government is responsible for the crisis in the Black community.    Can  many of the problems facing the Black community be attributed to racism or Black America's inab...