2003 Supreme Court Decision and Affirmative Action
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What did Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor really mean in her majority opinion on affirmative action in the University of Michigan ruling? Does it signal the end of affirmative action? Michael Higginbotham, a ...
Blacks and Latinos
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Latinos are now the largest ethnic group in America. No longer holding the number one position are African Americans. Are these two groups on a collision course? Dr. Nicolas Vaca, the author of “The Presumed Allian...
In The Black: Economic Status of Blacks
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The spending power of Black America is about $80 billion a year. A profile of the economic health of the black community.Guests: D. Parke Gibson, author The $30 Billion Negro; Dr. H. Naylor Fitzhugh, retired professor...
America’s Future Speaks Out — Part 1
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Against the backdrop of an almost day-to-day occurrence of atrocities committed by youths, studies reveal that teenage pregnancy in the U.S. is at its lowest level in two decades. Another report revealed dru...
No More Jackie Robinsons
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Shaun Powell, Newsday sports columnist and author of Souled Out? How Blacks Are Winning and Losing in Sports, dissects issues like the reluctance among many sports stars to engage in Black activism or their indifferen...
The Evolution of Sammy Davis
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It's 1983 and Sammy Davis and I sit down and reflect on his television interview with me in 1971. Sammy Davis says, "I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselv...
Is Black-Only Good Science?
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A recent decision by the Federal Drug Administration to approve a prescription drug for self-identified Blacks has been met with mixed reviews. While some established medical organizations approve of the drug’s use, ...
The Views and Solutions of Minister Louis Farrakhan: Part II
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Parts I & II This opinion leader of the Nation of Islam and a wide swath of non-Muslim Aframericans espouses the world views of his religious group and others it influences. (817)
Busing: For What?
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Over the years racial conflict between the races has heightened over the issue of busing for school desegregation. Across the country there is resentment and questioning among both Blacks and Whites. Guests: Art Flemi...
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...
