Events that Changed America: Roots and Revolution
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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 r...
Is The Faith-Based Initiative Working?
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Dr. David Bositis, senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, examines the startling results of a survey gauging the participation of Black churches in the Bush administration’s f...
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...
The Clarence Thomas Affair
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A year after Anita Hill's congressional committee testimony in which she accused then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unethical sexual behavior, differences of opinion concerning the televised hearings contin...
Who Was Medgar Evers?
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As of 1984 when this documentary was made, no one had been convicted in the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP Field Director Medgar Evers. This legendary leader’s voter registration and economic boycott drives p...
White Riot
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Guests: Robert Brown, Esq., Mayor, Orange, NJ and Abraham Foxman, National Director Anti-Defamation League (1826)
Politics: New Black Power? — Part 1
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1984 program examines politics and Black America Guests: Rev. Joseph Lowery and Joseph Madison (624)
Should Blacks Receive Reparations?
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The Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended reparations to the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riots. This program examines the national reparations movement among Blacks in America. (2304)
America’s New Immigration Policy
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Before the terrorist acts of September 11th, America’s immigration policy was primarily focused on keeping out illegal immigrants from Mexico. The arguments for and against immigration have given way to the question...
Tulsa Race Riots
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The infamous, early 20th-century race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma that served as a cover to destroy the prosperous “Black Wall Street" that Blacks had built. (2303)
