HIP-HOP or Just DUMB?
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Thomas Williams is a journalist and graduate student at NYU discusses how African-American culture as a whole must effectively disentangled itself from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension of the street, and u...
The Debt Bomb
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In 1998 "The Debt Bomb and Savings Pool," was authored by Thomas McAuliffe and it explained how “debt is driving all that’s going wrong with this nation.” The former banker and economist says that America is dangerous...
A LEAD-ing Chance
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The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program at Wharton engages youth of diverse backgrounds in the world of business. Founded at Wharton in 1980 by Harold Haskins and Bill Whitney. Guest: William Elliott, ...
Education: What Really Works?
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Parents, especially Black parents, have been increasingly drawn to private schools, secular and religious, for a better education for their children. This movement is fed by a widespread belief that the public school...
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 ...
J Edgar Hoover: The Question That Wouldn’t Die
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By America’s false social standard, one drop of “Black blood” makes you all Black. If so, was J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous director of the FBI, passing for White? California Black educator Millie McGhee, author of Se...
The Ebonics Controversy
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The Oakland, California School Board’s resolution to incorporate Black English into its curriculum has driven an even deeper wedge between educators and the general public. Seeming to offend as many Black as Whites, h...
Songs For The Spirit — Part 1
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Part I & II The popularity of nihilistic and satanic rock music has been blamed for the rise of violence among American youth. The influence of music in American culture is immeasurable. One case in point is th...
Dr. Buxton & The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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For 40 years, the Center for Disease Control, the official agency of the federal government, intentionally did not treat selected syphilitic Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama in order to study the effects of untreated sy...
