Saving Private Washington
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On the 50th anniversary of the signing of the executive order that officially desegregated the nation’s armed forces, Hollywood was showing its version of that war era. Many Black veterans felt it was another example...
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...
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 ...
Black Farmers: A Dying Crop
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A landmark $3-billion court settlement was reached between Black farmers and the U. S. Department of Agriculture to compensate Black growers for decades of unequal treatment. Dr. John Boyd, president of the National ...
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 ...
The Down Low: No Longer a Secret
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Articulate and out-spoken, Keith Boykin, author of Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America, exposes a secret fraternity called the “down low,” which some say is the cause of the high incidence of H...
Western Roots
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OK, you history buffs, get out pen and paper and let’s take a history quiz. (1) What state was proposed in 1890 as the state for Blacks and Indians with a Black governor? (2) The intermarriage between Blacks and India...
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...
A Rap Against Rap
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Pernicious words like “nigger” have become standard gutter talk among a “gangsta” subculture of African-Americans who call themselves rap artists. One black writer, columnist and cartoonist for the Tacoma Tribune got ...
Stockpiling Black Genes
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Howard University, a historically Black institution in Washington, D.C., plans to create the largest repository of DNA from 25,000 African-Americans in order to reduce or eradicate the many diseases that plague the Bl...
