The Art of Culture
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If every group has a culture, then every group has a body of art that represents its innermost meaning. While on an individual level, art has a specific meaning. On a national level, it represents the fears and aspir...
The Black KKK First Lady
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In a mixture of fact and fiction, writer Charlene Porter, author of “Boldfaced Lies,” examines the social concept of race, the KKK and the cultural phenomenon called “passing.” (3005)
A Filmmaker’s Look at Ralph Bunche
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Dr. Ralph Bunche, renowned United Nations statesman and Nobel Prize winner, is the subject of this discussion with Emmy award-winning filmmaker William Greaves. (2402)
The Black Collegian
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A profile of the ten-year anniversary celebration of America's premiere magazine for Black college students, The Black Collegian. (416)
Black America, The Republicans are Coming
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President Bush’s victory in 2004 increased his percentage of Black voters by two percent, and pushed the Democrats in Congress even deeper in the minority. How are Black Democrats responding to Bush’s campaign to att...
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...
The Museum That Saved Chicago’s History
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Who was the pioneer settler of Chicago? The answer is Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, an African American from Sainte-Domingue, Haiti. Margaret Burroughs, a founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American History in...
Ben and Bert (Ben Vereen)
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Ben Vereen was really hurt by the reaction of some Aframericans to his 1980 Presidential Inaugural blackface performance. He explains, “It’s important that we never forget where we came from because that only makes us...
Michael Jackson: Behind The Mask
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Numerous books have been written about pop star Michael Jackson. However, the book “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask” is significant because it was written by Jackson insider Bob Jones. Jones was Jackson’s pub...
