Category: Women’s Studies

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The Secret Of A Lifetime

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June Cross is a tenured professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away.  She unfolds the painful but challenging story of having a ...

Black Commentary

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Bev Smith is her name and good deeds and excellence are her game.  She is heard daily throughout the country on American Urban Radio Networks via her daily commentary “The Bev Smith Show.”  On this occasion, she chang...

A Talk with a Brilliant Mind

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While soaring professionally, pioneering journalist and author Barbara Reynolds almost drowned in a private hell of the demons from her past -- abandonment by her mother, incest, longing for the children she did not b...

Historical Black Women in The Military

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African-American women in military service also did not receive proper recognition for their service. Reflecting that apartheid custom, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African-American WA...

Black Women At Risk

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Black women are approximately six percent of the American population, but constitute 64 percent of new female AIDS cases, and one in 160 Black women is HIV-positive.  Why?  Guest Gary Bell, executive director of Black...

The Soul of a Congresswoman

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She is called the “Warrior on the Hill.”  A political pioneer and civil and human rights icon, Eleanor Holmes Norton represents the District of Columbia in Congress. Norton discusses her career and the “fire in her so...

Grace & Charm

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At the age of 16, Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell attended the Vogue School of Modeling in New York and began her modeling career, appearing in Ebony Magazine. Aware of how African-Americans were stereotypically depicted in t...

Mrs. Norman, We Love You

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Education at its best ( 631) Guest: Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Norman

CyberSpace A New Language

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Guest: Dr. Georgia Falu, President, Universal Business & Media School (1902)

Are Girls Different?

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Even in the new millennium, girls are still struggling with gender stereotypes.  Recent statistics indicate that girls are more likely to attempt suicide than boys.  Why?  Can empowering girls help them cope with the ...