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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 Sins of Our Fathers

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A discussion of the fear of reverse discrimination and the threat of the loss of affirmative action as related to cultural and racial relations, is examined. Guests: Art Fleming, Chairman, US Commission on Civil Right...

Don’t Call Me White

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An Examination of American ethnicity. Middle American Whites’ new emphasis on ethnicity is examined. Segments include a discussion of the relationship of Black consciousness to Whites rejecting the “melting pot” theor...

Black Americans and Black Immigrants

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Guests: Dr. David Chand, Dr. Ku-ntima Makidi and Dr. Letha See (1229)

HIP-HOP or Just DUMB?

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Thomas Williams is a journalist and graduate student at NYU discusses how African-American culture as a whole must effectively disentangled itself from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension of the street, and u...

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...

Taking Blame for the Shame

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Is the poor self-image of many Blacks self-inflicted or is it the result of some insidious outside force?  Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts, Jr., who is a syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald and autho...

Can the Liberals Pull it Off?

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Following the Los Angeles riots, national attention focused on the plight of urban areas.  With the defeat of a conservative Republican administration, the question becomes:   "Can the liberal White House, Congress an...

Black & Rich: The Inside Story – Part II

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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 ...

Does The Middle Class Do Enough?

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Guest: George Fraser (1406)