Category: Social Sciences
Y2K at the Community Level
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The Year 2000 Problem -- the programming glitch that prevents computers from recognizing the year 2000 -- guarantees to have a major impact on every area of society. The private and public sectors are wrestling with ...
The Brown Decision: A Family Legacy
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She is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Brown, who along with 12 other families, filed suit against a local board of education in Kansas. Their case made its way to the U. S. Supreme Court and on May 17, 1954 became the l...
2003 Supreme Court Decision and Affirmative Action
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What did Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor really mean in her majority opinion on affirmative action in the University of Michigan ruling? Does it signal the end of affirmative action? Michael Higginbotham, a ...
Is America Going Bankrupt?
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America's debt is over $4 trillion and the country continues to borrow billions of dollars each year. Industrialist Harry Figgie, Jr. and economist Gerald Swanson have concluded in their bestselling book, Bankruptcy ...
Blacks In White TV
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Segment discusses the historic treatment of African Americans in commercial TV. Guest: Dr. Fred J. McDonald. (523)
Dr. Buxton & The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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For 40 years, the Center for Disease Control, the official agency of the federal government, intentionally did not treat selected syphilitic Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama in order to study the effects of untreated sy...
Free At Last
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Angela Thompson was serving a mandatory 15-to-life prison term for selling a little over two ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer until some members of the law enforcement establishment, the media and Ton...
The City of Brothers and Sisters
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Gang rehabilitation in Philadelphia How some of Philadelphia's most vicious gang members were turned into respectable citizens by a concerned Black family is examined. (411)
