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The BlackPoor

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As founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Robert Woodson is considered by some to be the godfather of the movement to empower neighborhood-based organizations.   Woodson discusses th...

Can You Dig It? Black History Quiz (30 min) – Show 2

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Drawing its questions from the wealth of information on the history and cultural heritage of Black Americans. “Can You Dig It?” was the first (and only ?) African-American quiz show on national television. (4010)

The Evolution of Sammy Davis, Jr.

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It's 1983 and Sammy Davis reflects on his television interview with me in 1971.   Sammy Davis says, "I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselves. I’ve stopped t...

Their Feet Hurt

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Norfolk Virginia public school system (628)

The Secretary of Education’s Plan for Better Schools

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A recent study found that only six percent of Black eight graders could pass the math section of the SAT test.  On this program, Secretary Rod Paige, the first Black secretary of education and the first to hold that o...

America’s New Immigration Policy

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Before the terrorist acts of September 11th, America’s immigration policy was primarily focused on keeping out illegal immigrants from Mexico.   The arguments for and against immigration have given way to the question...

Gold Is Also Black: The Story of a Black Quarterback

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Sandy Stephens was the first Black man to play quarterback for the storied University of Minnesota football team. In many ways, he was a forerunner of the athletic quarterbacks in the NFL today, scrambling to extend p...

A Message to Arthur Ashe and Magic Johnson

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The lives of two of America’s most famous athletes, Arthur Ashe and Magic Johnson, are now being threatened by one of the deadliest diseases ever known.  Can they be successfully treated for what is currently being ca...

Trouble in Paradise

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 Investigation on a report at Harvard University that charged that its Black students were intellectually ill-equipped. (401)