The Threat To The Andes
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Lead poisoning, one of the single greatest hazards to children around the world, can cause brain and nerve damage, learning disabilities, growth retardation and other neurological problems. It is especially prevalent...
Do Boycotts Work?
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This program was taped in West Palm Beach, Florida at the annual convention of the National Bar Association in 1993 because the organization moved the meeting from Miami to Boca Raton because of a Black-led boycott of...
Visions and Images of the Struggles of Old
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Issues, events and personalities that shaped the African-American community and the nation. 1401
Black No More
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Journalist Debra Dickerson has written a controversial book, The End of Blackness, about changing social and political dynamics in the Black community. Dickerson says that “blackness” has forced African Americans int...
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...
Ben and Bert (Ben Vereen)
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Ben Vereen was really hurt by the reaction of some Aframericans to his 1980 Presidential Inaugural blackface performance. He explains, “It’s important that we never forget where we came from because that only makes us...
