Legends of Comedy
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This program features a tribute to comedy with a litany of entertainers such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Dick Gregory, George Kirby, Nipsey Russell and Moms Mabley. (2206)
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...
Is Federal Policy Threatening Black Middle Class?
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Blacks represent barely 13 percent of the population, but nearly 40 percent of the total federal workforce. It has been estimated that this statistic represents nearly 80 percent of the Black middle class. What woul...
IOWA: Winners and Losers (1980)
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Segment analyzes the results of the Iowa caucuses and the 1980 presidential campaign. In addition, home viewers of the QUBE two-way TV system of Warner Amex Cable in Columbus, Ohio, subscribers are asked to vote their...
The Longest Struggle: The History of the NAACP
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was born “in a little room” in a New York apartment in 1909. It was conceived, however, in the adversity of racism, in the “deplorable conditions”...
Uptown at the Apollo
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Richard Pryor, Sammy Davis, Jr., Stevie Wonder and Sam Moore are among the artists who have had their names in lights outside of the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem. They appear with Tony Brown when he turns the pa...
His Own Man
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As Pastor of the legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III has been in the vanguard of community activism. His battles against moral corruption are well-documented in the press and a re...
