Ben and Bert (Ben Vereen)
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Ben Vereen was really hurt by the reaction of some Aframericans to his 1980 Presidential Inaugural blackface performance. He explains, “It’s important that we never forget where we came from because that only makes us...
Killing Them Harshly
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Several years after radio talk show host Joe Madison saw an examination of slavery in Mauritania and Sudan on Tony Brown’s Journal, he journeyed to Africa to do his own investigation. What he found was heart wrenchin...
Malcolm & Elijah (Denzel Washington)
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This performance on Tony Brown’s Journal as Malcolm X (the physical resemblance is stunning) marked the young Denzel Washington’s first appearance on national TV and his first performance before a national audience....
Benjamin Banneker: Truth To Power
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Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital. In 1753, at the age of 22, Banneker constructed a striking wooden clo...
“Civilization’s First Born”
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The discovery of the 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a Dikika infant is a major development in the study of human evolution. Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Graves, author of “The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exis...
Another Version of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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Washington Post headline: “Miss Evers’ Misses The Mark On Tuskegee Tragedy.” That statement of admonishment for the 2001 HBO film about the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is an understatement. “The experime...
