A Nation Divided
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This edition examines the causes and effects of the Rodney King verdict, the ensuing riots and America's underlying racial tensions. This round-table discussion also focuses on race relations between Blacks, Whites an...
Events that Changed America: Roots and Revolution
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African Americans have historically been on the fringes of society, but they have wrought major changes in this country. This program examines two phenomena that have shaped the course of American history. One was r...
Selenium & Vitamin E in Prostate Cancer Treatment
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The National Institutes of Health and a network of researchers have launched the largest prostate cancer prevention study ever to determine whether dietary supplements – Selenium and Vitamin E – can protect against pr...
The Explorer of the New World
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Interview with Allen Counter, Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard, that covers his ethnographic interests in the African diaspora in the Americas. Guest: Allen Counter, Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard (1913)
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 ...
The Good Guys
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The Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) is one of the nation’s leading information technology organizations. Renee McClure, BDPA’s national president, and John Hoffler, president of the St. Louis chapter of BDPA, ...
The Black Valentino
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The roaring 20s gave birth to the Charleston, bob-haircuts, speakeasies and the movie career of Lorenzo Tucker – The Black Valentino – of race movies. But unlike Valentino, he was one of the few silent film stars Blac...
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...
