The Black Elite
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Dr. Lois Benjamin, author of the new book The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the 21st Century, masterfully presents a myriad of changes underlying the value shift of the post-Civil Rights generations, suc...
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...
Date Rape
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The Mike Tyson-Desiree Washington rape trial focused national attention on the crime of date rape. This edition examines date rape and why a large number of Black women believe that Mike Tyson was the victim. (1510)
White Man’s Burden
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Harry Belafonte talks about the movie he starred in with John Travolta
J Edgar Hoover: The Question That Wouldn’t Die
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By America’s false social standard, one drop of “Black blood” makes you all Black. If so, was J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous director of the FBI, passing for White? California Black educator Millie McGhee, author of Se...
Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (30 min) – Show 3
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Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. “Can You Dig It?” was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. (4011)
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 ...
