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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 ...

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...

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 “...

Race & Y2K

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Tony Brown and his guest, FBI Agent Tryone Powers  discuss that Blacks are way behind Whites and Asians in computer ownership and access to the Internet but are way ahead – by about a 2-1 ratio.  Mr. Powers, a former ...

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...

Job.com

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In 1994, the pool of jobs listed on the internet was limited to about 15,000 openings nationwide.  Today, the top 15 online job banks post upwards of 500,000 job openings.  This program explores the how’s, why’s and w...

Is America Going Bankrupt?

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America's debt is over $4 trillion and the country continues to borrow billions of dollars each year.  Industrialist Harry Figgie, Jr. and economist Gerald Swanson have concluded in their bestselling book, Bankruptcy ...

Goodbye, Sgt. Ross?

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This segment discusses the lack of power of so-called Black TV stars. Guest: Hal Williams   (524)

“Progress or Peril”

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Keith Alexander, a staff writer at The Washington Post and a contributing author of "Being A Black Man At the Corner of Progress and Peril," discusses a revealing portrait of Black men in American that explores their ...

“Civilization’s First Born”

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The discovery of the 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a Dikika infant is a major development in the study of human evolution.  Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Graves, author of “The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exis...