Category: Social Sciences
Y2K at the Community Level
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The Year 2000 Problem -- the programming glitch that prevents computers from recognizing the year 2000 -- guarantees to have a major impact on every area of society. The private and public sectors are wrestling with ...
The Black KKK First Lady
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In a mixture of fact and fiction, writer Charlene Porter, author of “Boldfaced Lies,” examines the social concept of race, the KKK and the cultural phenomenon called “passing.” (3005)
Blacks and Latinos
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Latinos are now the largest ethnic group in America. No longer holding the number one position are African Americans. Are these two groups on a collision course? Dr. Nicolas Vaca, the author of “The Presumed Allian...
The I. Q. Question
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A discussion of the legitimacy of I.Q. tests and the charge that Blacks are mentally inferior to Whites. (318)
That Under 40 Bunch
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In this 1980 episode of Tony Brown's Journal, Brown discusses the under-40 Black generation with a range of people from the Black community. 216
The Only Color of Freedom Is Green
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Throughout Black America's history, self-help's focus on economic development has peeked and declined. Presently, it is on life support as a result of a strong focus on electoral politics. But it was not alway...
Black Children In Crisis
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An examination of the disparaging situation that Black children are faced with in today's America. 419
Black Journalists Under the Spotlight
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After the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times, many Black journalists working in mainstream media feel they are under attack and are on the defensive. Wayne Dawkins, author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists ...
Another Version of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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The experiment turned out to be a heinous government experiment in which hundreds of Black men with syphilis infection went untreated for 40 years. While the government lied to the men and pretended to heal them, the...
