Category: Social Sciences
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...
Benjamin Banneker: Truth To Power
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Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital. In 1753, at the age of 22, Banneker constructed a striking wooden clo...
The Black Elite
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Dr. Lois Benjamin, author of the new book The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the 21st Century, masterfully presents a myriad of changes underlying the value shift of the post-Civil Rights generations, suc...
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 ...
The Evolution of Black Studies
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As the creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga has had a profound impact on the evolution of African-American culture as well as the evolution of Black Studies. He is a celebrated author, Ph. D, founder of several Bla...
A Multi-Ethnic State In Evolution
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U. S. Representative Diane Watson serves the diverse 32nd Congressional District of California, where multiculturalism is a way of life. Does it work? Has California learned how various groups can live together with...
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 “...
