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Is The Faith-Based Initiative Working?

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Dr. David Bositis, senior political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, examines the startling results of a survey gauging the participation of Black churches in the Bush administration’s f...

Republicans? Democrats? Neither?

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An examination of an alternative political strategy for Black Americans.  Guests: Dr. Ronald Walters, Eddie Williams, Art Teele, Jr and Hosea Williams.  (422)

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...

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 ...

The Ebonics Controversy

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The Oakland, California School Board’s resolution to incorporate Black English into its curriculum has driven an even deeper wedge between educators and the general public. Seeming to offend as many Black as Whites, h...

The Health Prophet

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Dick Gregory gives his views on health. (801)

J Edgar Hoover: The Question That Wouldn’t Die

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By America’s false social standard, one drop of “Black blood” makes you all Black. If so, was J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous director of the FBI, passing for White? California Black educator Millie McGhee, author of Se...

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...

The Only Color of Freedom Is Green

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       Throughout Black America's history, self-help's focus on economic development has peeked and declined. Presently, it is on life support as a result of a strong focus on electoral politics. But it was not alway...