Black Hollywood The Way It Was: The Middle Years – Pt. 3
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The Middle Years examines the history of independently produced Black movies and the establishment of a Black film era. "The Middle Years," picks up during the Depression years as independent filmmakers struggle for ...
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...
When The Sisters Came Marching Home
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African-American WAC unit to serve overseas in WWII. This unit was responsible for redirecting the mail to the GI's on the battlefield, a Sisyphean feat, cons...
America’s Black Eagles: The Tuskegee Airmen — 4-Part Series
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Discusses the Black experience in the military, focuses on the training and participation of Black airmen in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, such as the Tuskegee Airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. Also ...
The Last Word
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Racial differences in nonverbal communications.Guests: Dr. James Woodward, associate professor and chairman of the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet College in Washington, DC; Dr. Julius Fast, author, The Body of La...
The Black Leaders Summit of 1972 and the 1998 Follow Up: Part I
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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 (...
