Category: Social Sciences
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...
Exploding Mortgages
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It is estimated that 2.2 million families will lose their homes due to foreclosures over the next couple of years as a result of a wide range of unfair and deceptive practices against borrowers in the sub-prime market...
Dr. Buxton & The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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For 40 years, the Center for Disease Control, the official agency of the federal government, intentionally did not treat selected syphilitic Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama in order to study the effects of untreated sy...
Transcendent America
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On September 11, 2001, America was hit by the worst terrorist acts in modern American history. This program explores the impact of war on America both nationally and internationally. Newspaper columnist Clarence P...
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...
Threats to Black Youth
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Dr. John Palmer, executive director of Harlem Hospital Center, comments on why the death rate is 50 percent higher among Black infants in Harlem than other areas of New York City. John Daniel, Vice President of Girls...
Can the US Commission on Civil Rights do its Job as the Nation’s Conscious?
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The new chairman of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gerald Reynolds, discusses the future of the agency and addresses charges that the commission has outlived its usefulness.(2813)
