Western Roots
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OK, you history buffs, get out pen and paper and let’s take a history quiz. (1) What state was proposed in 1890 as the state for Blacks and Indians with a Black governor? (2) The intermarriage between Blacks and India...
Jimmy Carter: One Year Later
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Did the Black vote for Jimmy Carter Pay Off? An evaluation of his first year in office.Guests: Ossie Davis, writer, actor, social observer; and Ben Brown, Chairman, Democratic National Committee. (103)
From Right to Left: The Politics of Glenn Loury
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Glenn Loury, the first Black professor of economics at Harvard University and a leading Black conservative, discusses his battle with drugs, his ideological evolution from conservative to independent, and his new book...
The Shrine of the Black Madonna
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Poetess Sonia Sanchez helps Rev. Albert Cleage, Jr. celebrate African heritage at the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit, c. 1970. (4026)
The Lost Africans of the Andes
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Dr. Allen Counter's film looks at the village of Chota, Ecuador whose population is descended from Africans brought over the mountains by Jesuit missionaries to work as slaves on the sugar plantations. Guest: Allen...
Sports Plantation
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A look at why so many Black athletes never graduate from White colleges. Guest: John Thompson (407)
Who Was Medgar Evers?
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As of 1984 when this documentary was made, no one had been convicted in the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP Field Director Medgar Evers. This legendary leader’s voter registration and economic boycott drives p...
Son Like Father
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60% of Black males do not graduate from high school. That statistic is bad enough, but the implications for the future of the Black community and the nation are truly frightening. This places Asa Wynn Grant's already ...
Jerry Falwell Talks About Racism
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The evangelist discusses race and civil rights. (627)
The One Drop Rule
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Scott Malcomson, a member of The New York Times editorial board and author of One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race, explains the meaning behind what he calls “the essence of whiteness – the origins of ...
