Can One Black College Save Them All?
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The glue that holds the successful, professional class in the Black community together is a black college somewhere in their past. On those campuses, the descendants of slaves, often disadvantaged, have been liberate...
Black Women At Risk
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Black women are approximately six percent of the American population, but constitute 64 percent of new female AIDS cases, and one in 160 Black women is HIV-positive. Why? Guest Gary Bell, executive director of Black...
Who Was Stepin Fetchit?
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Who was the real man behind one of Hollywood’s most negative images, Stepin Fetchit? Author Mel Watkins explains that Lincoln Perry was very different from the lazy, bug-eyed buffoon on screen. (2905)
Events That Changed America
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African Americans have historically been on the fringes of society, but they have wrought major changes in this country. This program examines two phenomena that have shaped the course of American history. One was roo...
Ben and Bert (Ben Vereen)
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Ben Vereen was really hurt by the reaction of some Aframericans to his 1980 Presidential Inaugural blackface performance. He explains, “It’s important that we never forget where we came from because that only makes us...
Stockpiling Black Genes
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Howard University, a historically Black institution in Washington, D.C., plans to create the largest repository of DNA from 25,000 African-Americans in order to reduce or eradicate the many diseases that plague the Bl...
Trouble in Paradise
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Investigation on a report at Harvard University that charged that its Black students were intellectually ill-equipped. (401)
AIDS and Health
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As new reports of patients who were HIV positive but who never developed AIDS continue to show up in medical journals, the validity of the official government's position that the human immunodefiency virus is the prec...
