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 ...
The Winning Spirit
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Arthur Ashe, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Robinson and Marcus Haines are all legends in the sports world. These renowned athletes are among the personalities profiled on this edition for their “winning spirit.” (2205)
Were Angolans The First African Americans?
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Recently discovered artifacts suggest that the true origin of the first Aframericans is Angola. They settled in Jamestown, VA in 1619. (Curator Tom Davidson and Liz Montgomery) Guest: Tom Davidson, senior curator o...
“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...
Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (30 min) – Show 1
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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. (4009)
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...
A Message to Arthur Ashe and Magic Johnson
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The lives of two of America’s most famous athletes, Arthur Ashe and Magic Johnson, are now being threatened by one of the deadliest diseases ever known. Can they be successfully treated for what is currently being ca...
Who Killed Malcolm X?
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As part of this iconic collection, we are rebroadcasting a program from 1993 that dug deep into our series' archives to retrace 25-years of investigative reporting on Malcolm X. Through interviews, rare footage of the...
Free At Last
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Angela Thompson was serving a mandatory 15-to-life prison term for selling a little over two ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer until some members of the law enforcement establishment, the media and Ton...
