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Gender In The Military: The Air Force

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Officials respond to charges of gender discrimination in the Air Force.  (1813)

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...

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...

On The Stump with Alex Haley

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What can Alex Haley tell us about the impact of ROOTS has had on Blacks and Whites?

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 ...

The Black Code

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Entertainer and educator Bill Cosby created a firestorm of controversy when he publicly criticized poor Black Americans.  Black leaders came out on both sides of the issue.  On this program, Joe Madison, radio talk sh...

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 ...