From The Library of Black History: Black Hollywood
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Before Denzel and Halle won the Oscar. Before Jamie Foxx riveted audiences with his spot-on portrayal of Ray Charles, there was a time when Black actors and actresses were limited in what they could portray in motion ...
Black Dialect
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An examination of the Black dialect and the effort to bridge the language gap between Black vernacular and Standard American English. Guests: Dr. Grace Hope, Dr. Roger Shuy, Attorney Kenneth Lewis. (311)
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...
A Talk with a Brilliant Mind
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While soaring professionally, pioneering journalist and author Barbara Reynolds almost drowned in a private hell of the demons from her past -- abandonment by her mother, incest, longing for the children she did not b...
An American Wake-Up Call
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Can the present middle class maintain its own indebtedness and remain competitive in a knowledge-worker labor force and sustain the American economy as the world’s leader? Guest James Carr, a senior vice president at ...
Can Blacks Support Themselves?
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A discussion of the economic failures of Black America and some possible solutions. Guest LeBaron Taylor (426)
Black Americans and Black Immigrants
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Guests: Dr. David Chand, Dr. Ku-ntima Makidi and Dr. Letha See (1229)
Lena Horne
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Lena Horne was an amazing woman. Looking back at the age of 80, Ms. Horne said: “My identity is very clear to me now. I am a Black woman. I’m free. I no longer have to be a ‘credit.’ I don’t have to be a symbol to an...
