The One Drop Rule
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Scott Malcomson, a member of The New York Times editorial board and author of One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race, explains the meaning behind what he calls “the essence of whiteness – the origins of ...
Will the India Model Work for America’s Have-Nots?
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There are organizations and academic institutions that are trying to close the Digital Divide between the have and the have-nots. Dr. Dolores Cross, president of Morris Brown College, and Michele Lezama, executive di...
The Evolution of Sammy Davis
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It's 1983 and Sammy Davis and I sit down and reflect on his television interview with me in 1971. Sammy Davis says, "I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselv...
Has the Black Leadership Betrayed its Own Community?
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Who should take responsibility for the condition of African-Americans? Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, author of Betrayal By Any Other Name, accuses yesterday's and today's Black leadership. Dr. Al-Mansour says there is a hi...
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...
Thank God: An Aframerican Docu-Opera — Part 2
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"The music of the black religious experience," contends Tony Brown, host of the televised "Journal" that bears his name, "is the primary root of all music born in the United States." (805)
Thomas Jefferson’s Black and White DNA
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In January 2000, scientists and historians at Monticello announced the results of an independent study and concluded that Thomas Jefferson probably fathered at least one and, perhaps, more of his slave Sally Hemings’ ...
