MLK: Has The Truth Been Told?
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An investigation of the unanswered questions surrounding the death of Martin Luther King. (424)
Censuring America’s Top Black Leader
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Controversy erupted on the pages of the New York Village Voice when it published a letter from civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem. In an exclusive int...
African American or Black, Is there a Difference?
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The ethnic description of Americans of African descent has shifted from colored to Negro to Black and, at the recent urging of Jessie Jackson, African-American. There are immigrants who feel that they should be inclu...
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...
Will The Black Vote Help the GOP?
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What is the Republican strategy to win the Black vote in the 2004 presidential election? The Black vote is the Democratic Party’s most reliable voting bloc, but will young Blacks change that reality? Lynette Clemets...
Black Royalty: Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
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The informal king and queen of this artistic wing during much of this inspiring era of self-reliance from a conspicuously talented sociographic and intellectual expatriate colony of diverse descendants of Africa wa...
What Clinical Definitions Would You Give to President Clinton’s Behavior
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As the nation ponders President Bill Clinton’s fate in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, many are asking the same question: Why? Why would a powerful and intelligent man risk engaging in illicit sexual behavior within the...
Pearl: An Underground Railroad
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The 54-ton schooner named the Pearl sailed into the history books on April 15, 1848 when 77 enslaved Americans attempted an escape to freedom. Mary Kay Ricks, author of Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom ...
Has America Had Five Black Presidents?
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An investigation of five U. S. presidents who were alleged to have Black ancestry, in J. A. Rogers’ book “The Five Negro Presidents.” (Note: If true, Barack Obama would be the sixth bi-racial American president.) G...
