Category: Social Sciences
Does the Davis-Bacon Act Cause Black Unemployment?
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The Davis-Bacon Act is a federal law that costs taxpayers $1 billion annually in inflated construction costs and more than $100 million in administrative costs. This law, says the Institute For Justice, was created wi...
Mrs. Norman, We Love You
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Education at its best ( 631) Guest: Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Norman
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...
A Slow Fade To White
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In the name of integration, mergers with larger White colleges or out-right abolishment are threatening the very existence of the nation's Black four-year public institutions. An examination of the plight facing publi...
Son Like Father
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60% of Black males do not graduate from high school. That statistic is bad enough, but the implications for the future of the Black community and the nation are truly frightening. This places Asa Wynn Grant's already ...
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 ...
50% Black Men Unemployed
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A study by the Community Service Society shows that nearly half of Black men in New York City are not working. The organization’s president, David Jones, discusses this shocking statistic and the implications for a c...
Black Journalists Under the Spotlight
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After the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times, many Black journalists working in mainstream media feel they are under attack and are on the defensive. Wayne Dawkins, author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists ...
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...
