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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...

Republicans? Democrats? Neither?

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An examination of an alternative political strategy for Black Americans.  Guests: Dr. Ronald Walters, Eddie Williams, Art Teele, Jr and Hosea Williams.  (422)

Frederick Douglass: Orator, Statesman, Abolitionist

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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...

Race and Intelligence

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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing discusses the controversial book on racial intelligence, The Bell Curve. (1724)

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 ...

One-On-One with Lester Thurow Pt.1

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In a series of specials on "Making America Work For U. S.," host Tony Brown interviews MIT dean and professor Dr. Lester Thurow, author of Head To Head: The Coming Economic Battle.  In his newest book, Dr. Thurow give...

Black Dialect

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An examination of the Black dialect and the effort to bridge the language gap between Black vernacular and Standard American English. Guests: Dr. Grace Hope, Dr. Roger Shuy, Attorney Kenneth Lewis. (311) 

Dr. Gregory

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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...

Gender In The Military: The Air Force

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Officials respond to charges of gender discrimination in the Air Force.  (1813)