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Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (60 min) – Show 7

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Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. “Can You Dig It?” was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. (4015)

Black America, The Republicans are Coming

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President Bush’s victory in 2004 increased his percentage of Black voters by two percent, and pushed the Democrats in Congress even deeper in the minority.  How are Black Democrats responding to Bush’s campaign to att...

The Museum That Saved Chicago’s History

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Who was the pioneer settler of Chicago?  The answer is Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, an African American from Sainte-Domingue, Haiti.  Margaret Burroughs, a founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American History in...

Y2K at the Community Level

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The Year 2000 Problem -- the programming glitch that prevents computers from recognizing the year 2000 -- guarantees to have a major impact on every area of society.  The private and public sectors are wrestling with ...

Art Tatum: A Billy Taylor Salute

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SALUTES TO MUSIC GREATS (4005)

The First State to Apologize for Slavery

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As the first colony to own slaves, Virginia became the first state to apologize to African-Americans for slavery. Virginia State Sen. Henry L. Marsh III and Delegate Donald McEachin talk about this historical preceden...

Can The Sullivan Principles Survive?

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Will Rev. Leon Sullivan’s, framework of racial idealism survive. (821)

Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (60 min) – Show 8

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Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. “Can You Dig It?” was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. (4016)

Stockpiling Black Genes

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Howard University, a historically Black institution in Washington, D.C., plans to create the largest repository of DNA from 25,000 African-Americans in order to reduce or eradicate the many diseases that plague the Bl...