African Presence in Asia
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Historian and scholar Dr. Runoko Rashidi has researched the African presence globally and the African foundations of world civilizations. On this program, he exposes little-known facts about African origins in Asia. ...
The Brown Decision: A Family Legacy
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She is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Brown, who along with 12 other families, filed suit against a local board of education in Kansas. Their case made its way to the U. S. Supreme Court and on May 17, 1954 became the l...
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”...
X-ploitation
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Since the beginning of the filming of "Malcolm X," the soon-to-be-released Warner Brothers' movie, controversy concerning the film director's treatment of the slain Black leader, as well as his promotion of the film, ...
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 ...
Ralph Bunche — The Lost Hero
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Who was the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? The answer is Ralph Bunche. As the United Nations Undersecretary General, Bunche successfully negotiated armistice agreements between Israel an...
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...
Can the US Commission on Civil Rights do its Job as the Nation’s Conscious?
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The new chairman of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gerald Reynolds, discusses the future of the agency and addresses charges that the commission has outlived its usefulness.(2813)
