A Slow Fade To White
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In the name of integration, mergers with larger White colleges or out-right abolishment are threatening the very existence of the nation's Black four-year public institutions. An examination of the plight facing publi...
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...
10 Years After the Rodney King Riots
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Business leader Bernard Kinsey, the former co-chair of Rebuild LA, discusses the impact of the Rodney King riots, where Los Angeles was then, where it is today, and why he believes that it is poised for a period of em...
Can the Liberals Pull it Off?
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Following the Los Angeles riots, national attention focused on the plight of urban areas. With the defeat of a conservative Republican administration, the question becomes: "Can the liberal White House, Congress an...
The Black Leaders Summit of 1972 and the 1998 Follow Up: Part II
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An unprecedented gathering of the top Black leaders in 1972 appeared in a live 90-minute special. Among the guests: Charles Diggs, Dorothy Height, Vernon Jordan, Albert Cleage, Jr., Dick Gregory, and Elijah Muhammad (...
Children Who Are Self Employed
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Traditionally, entrepreneurship has not been a major characteristic of the Black community. Its absence translates into generations of young people not getting the needed encouragement and assistance to become fina...
Black Women At Risk
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Black women are approximately six percent of the American population, but constitute 64 percent of new female AIDS cases, and one in 160 Black women is HIV-positive. Why? Guest Gary Bell, executive director of Black...
