Black Dialect
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An examination of the Black dialect and the effort to bridge the language gap between Black vernacular and Standard American English. Guests: Dr. Grace Hope, Dr. Roger Shuy, Attorney Kenneth Lewis. (311)
HIP-HOP or Just DUMB?
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Thomas Williams is a journalist and graduate student at NYU discusses how African-American culture as a whole must effectively disentangled itself from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension of the street, and u...
The Sins of Our Fathers
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A discussion of the fear of reverse discrimination and the threat of the loss of affirmative action as related to cultural and racial relations, is examined. Guests: Art Fleming, Chairman, US Commission on Civil Right...
White Riot
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Guests: Robert Brown, Esq., Mayor, Orange, NJ and Abraham Foxman, National Director Anti-Defamation League (1826)
The Big Black Boom On The Great White Way
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A sharp, fast-paced, sophisticated look at some of Broadway's Black plays and producers that have made New York the theatre capital of the world. Guests: Eubie Blake; Melvin van Peebles, playwright, producer and ...
Another Version of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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Washington Post headline: “Miss Evers’ Misses The Mark On Tuskegee Tragedy.” That statement of admonishment for the 2001 HBO film about the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is an understatement. “The experime...
Does Culture Trump Race?
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According to scientific studies, all humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical. However, the Atlantic slave trade was based on skin color, which scientists say is determined by only six of 40,000 genes or just on...