Did History Miss Emmett Till?
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Author Clenora Hudson-Weems examines the gruesome 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. She also challenges the widespread belief that Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus preci...
The Black Leadership Struggle
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Is the Black community witnessing a changing of the guard among its top leadership? The New York Times magazine reported Rev. Al Sharpton as saying that Jesse Jackson’s star has fallen in the Black community, and he ...
Black Hollywood The Way It Was: The Middle Years – Pt. 3
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The Middle Years examines the history of independently produced Black movies and the establishment of a Black film era. "The Middle Years," picks up during the Depression years as independent filmmakers struggle for ...
Don’t Call Me White
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An Examination of American ethnicity. Middle American Whites’ new emphasis on ethnicity is examined. Segments include a discussion of the relationship of Black consciousness to Whites rejecting the “melting pot” theor...
Black Contract with America
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Why are an increasing number of leaders in the Black church moving toward what they call the New Black Church? Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., senior pastor of the Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland and fo...
The Y2K Problem
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In year 2000 the Assistant Secretary of Defense stated that “we are going to be in the biggest operational test the world has ever seen.” It has become known as the Y2K problem. 2103
X-ploitation
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Since the beginning of the filming of "Malcolm X," the soon-to-be-released Warner Brothers' movie, controversy concerning the film director's treatment of the slain Black leader, as well as his promotion of the film, ...
Character vs. Race — Part 2
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Hampton University is one of the nation’s most prestigious historical Black universities. In 1999, it was cited as one of the top regional universities in the South. At the beginning of Hampton University’s 131st ac...
Are You Black or White?
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About 100,000 years ago, defining race was not an issue because scientists agree that the first humans originated in Africa. Over the next 50,000 years, waves of humans left Africa and spread throughout the world. Tod...
Statue of Liberty
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Dr. James Haskins, Professor, University of Florida discuss origins of the Statue of Liberty. (927)
