Category: Social Sciences
Walk To Freedom
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June 23, 1963, in Detroit’s Cobo Hall, I intensely listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, for what many historians claim was the first time. Dr. King was in Detroit for the “...
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...
Republicans? Democrats? Neither?
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An examination of an alternative political strategy for Black Americans. Guests: Dr. Ronald Walters, Eddie Williams, Art Teele, Jr and Hosea Williams. (422)
The Art of Jon Lockard and African Origins In History
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“After several centuries of living in their new homeland, Canaan, the Israelites took on more and more of the cultural trappings of their Canaanite neighbors. The Egyptian characters accumulated more and more Canaani...
The Last Word
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Racial differences in nonverbal communications.Guests: Dr. James Woodward, associate professor and chairman of the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet College in Washington, DC; Dr. Julius Fast, author, The Body of La...
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...
Gold Is Also Black: The Story of a Black Quarterback
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Sandy Stephens was the first Black man to play quarterback for the storied University of Minnesota football team. In many ways, he was a forerunner of the athletic quarterbacks in the NFL today, scrambling to extend p...
The Black West
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“Little Black cowboys need their heroes too,” sings Black country-western singer Jae R. Mason, as part of a movement to recapture the Black presence in the Old West. This edition highlights the rich history of Black c...
Blacks In White TV
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Segment discusses the historic treatment of African Americans in commercial TV. Guest: Dr. Fred J. McDonald. (523)
