The Secretary of Education’s Plan for Better Schools
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A recent study found that only six percent of Black eight graders could pass the math section of the SAT test. On this program, Secretary Rod Paige, the first Black secretary of education and the first to hold that o...
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...
Thomas Jefferson’s Black and White DNA
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In January 2000, scientists and historians at Monticello announced the results of an independent study and concluded that Thomas Jefferson probably fathered at least one and, perhaps, more of his slave Sally Hemings’ ...
The Black West
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“Little Black cowboys need their heroes too,” sings Black country-western singer Jae R. Mason, as part of a movement to recapture the Black presence in the Old West. This edition highlights the rich history of Black c...
One Woman’s Solution to HIV/AIDS
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Approximately 8,500 people die daily from AIDS and no medical or technological magic bullet is on the horizon. Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, co-director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of...
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...
Gender Discrimination
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Is gender discrimination still prevalent in the military? Guests: TSgt. Linda Allbee and Capt. Gloria Harrision (1805)
Booker T. Washington Freedom Trail – Part 1
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Booker T. Washington, educator and statesman, is Hampton University's most famous graduate and founder of Tuskegee University. In many ways, he embodies the spirit of all of Black higher education. He represented the ...
