How a Power Couple Wields Power
2.99K Views1 Likes
What do you do when you have as much influence and affluence as Jeanette Parker and her husband Clark Parker? They are loaded with degrees, business and academic success and have built new lives on the back of a life...
Frederick Douglass: Orator, Statesman, Abolitionist
4.13K Views2 Likes
Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
Can the Liberals Pull it Off?
2.60K Views0 Likes
Following the Los Angeles riots, national attention focused on the plight of urban areas. With the defeat of a conservative Republican administration, the question becomes: "Can the liberal White House, Congress an...
The Only Color of Freedom Is Green
1.51K Views0 Likes
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...
Bush and AIDS in Africa
2.80K Views0 Likes
In 2003, U. S. Representative Dave Weldon, a medical doctor and a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has visited Uganda investigating possible strategies for combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. He addresses ...
From the Library of Black History: Booker T. Washington Freedom Trail: The Spirit of Black Higher Education
2.77K Views2 Likes
This 30-minute version discusses Booker T. Washington’s impact on higher education. (1306)
Is Cleanliness Next To Good Health?
3.34K Views0 Likes
Scientist Ken Seaton believes that statistics showing an increase in the disparities between the health of the affluent and the poor, such as life expectancy, cancer and diabetes, are due largely to hygiene. He says ...
75 Good Men & Women
3.51K Views1 Likes
Knoxville College, a historical Black college in Knoxville, Tennessee, survived an almost fatal blow with the help of two talented and dedicated Black women who decided that they were not going to let it fail. Knoxvi...
