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 ...
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)
NAACP: What Direction?
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Where Do We Go From Here? Guests: Benjamin Hooks and Margaret Bush Wilson (521)
Free At Last
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Angela Thompson was serving a mandatory 15-to-life prison term for selling a little over two ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer until some members of the law enforcement establishment, the media and Ton...
The First Amendment and Black Reporters
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Was Judith Miller the first New York Times reporter to be charged for obstructing justice by not relinquishing news sources during the Miller-CIA case? Maybe not. Thirty years ago, Earl Caldwell, then a young, Black...
African Origin: Civilized or Barbaric?
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Guest Yaa-Lengi Ngemi discuss societal beliefs about Africa and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. 1922
50% Black Men Unemployed
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A study by the Community Service Society shows that nearly half of Black men in New York City are not working. The organization’s president, David Jones, discusses this shocking statistic and the implications for a c...
Should We Fear The Police?
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The killing of Amadou Diallo by New York City police officers has sparked a multitude of demonstrations and triggered renewed charges of police brutality in the African American community. A group of Black state troo...
