Forgotten Legends of Jazz
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Donald Byrd shares his jazz career with Tony Brown and a live studio audience. As a sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pion...
Mixing Civil Rights and Business Success
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Apparel entrepreneur Don Polk turned a college business into a $100-million-a-year conglomerate. He shares one of his secrets to success, mixing business savvy with civic responsibility. (2625)
The Longest Struggle: The History of the NAACP
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was born “in a little room” in a New York apartment in 1909. It was conceived, however, in the adversity of racism, in the “deplorable conditions”...
Slavery’s Biggest Secret
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New England journalist and co-author of Complicity Anne Farrow exposes how the North rewrote the history of U. S. slavery to blame the South and hide its insidious role in the perpetuation of slavery. Was the first co...
The Only Color of Freedom Is Green
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Throughout Black America's history, self-help's focus on economic development has peeked and declined. Presently, it is on life support as a result of a strong focus on electoral politics. But it was not alway...
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...
History of Blacks In Radio
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The pages of radio history are turned back to examine the treatment of Blacks during radio's Golden Age. (319)
