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...
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...
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 ...
The Evolution of Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It's 1983 and Sammy Davis reflects 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 themselves. I’ve stopped t...
HIP-HOP or Just DUMB?
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Thomas Williams is a journalist and graduate student at NYU discusses how African-American culture as a whole must effectively disentangled itself from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension of the street, and u...
Politics: New Black Power? — Part 1
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1984 program examines politics and Black America Guests: Rev. Joseph Lowery and Joseph Madison (624)
Do Black Feminist Writers Victimize Black Men?
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How many feminists writers have crossed the line? (919)
A Rap Against Rap
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Pernicious words like “nigger” have become standard gutter talk among a “gangsta” subculture of African-Americans who call themselves rap artists. One black writer, columnist and cartoonist for the Tacoma Tribune got ...
What Did Farrakhan Say And When Did He Say It?
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The media recently reported that Minister Louis Farrakhan admitted in a nationally televised interview that he might have been “complicit” through his words in the death of Malcolm X. Was that the first time Min. Far...
