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New Black Images

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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 ...

“Civilization’s First Born”

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The discovery of the 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a Dikika infant is a major development in the study of human evolution.  Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Graves, author of “The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exis...

Black & Rich: The Inside Story – Part I

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Part I & II. On this two-part program, Tony Brown talks to attorney Lawrence Otis Graham, author of Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class. In this riveting discussion about race and class, Graham ...

What Did Farrakhan Say And When Did He Say It?

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The media recently reported that Minister Louis Farrakhan admitted in a nationally televised interview that he might have been “complicit” through his words in the death of Malcolm X.  Was that the first time Min. Far...

Mixing Civil Rights and Business Success

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Apparel entrepreneur Don Polk turned a college business into a $100-million-a-year conglomerate.  He shares one of his secrets to success, mixing business savvy with civic responsibility.   (2625) 

Illegal Immigration and Economic Facts

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Dr. William Spriggs, Chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University discusses his paper entitled “Immigration and Equity: A Dialogue to Help Shape the Issues of this Important Challenge.”   (2920)

The Brown Decision: A Family Legacy

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She is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Brown, who along with 12 other families, filed suit against a local board of education in Kansas.  Their case made its way to the U. S. Supreme Court and on May 17, 1954 became the l...

Justice Delayed

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Harry T. Moore, who was at the vanguard of the civil rights movement in Florida, and his wife Harriet were killed when their home was firebombed in 1951.  Harry Moore became the first NAACP official to be assassinated...

Is America Going Bankrupt?

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America's debt is over $4 trillion and the country continues to borrow billions of dollars each year.  Industrialist Harry Figgie, Jr. and economist Gerald Swanson have concluded in their bestselling book, Bankruptcy ...