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Blacks Running For President
Are presidential candidates Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun, a former U. S. Senator, the best choices from among the nation’s Black leadership? Will Sharpton emerge as the most powerful Black in ...
Episode 2608, Aired in 2003
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The Secretary of Education's Plan For Better Schools
A recent study found that only six percent of Black eighth graders could pass the math section of the SAT test. On this program, Secretary Rod Paige, the first Black Secretary of Education and the fi...
Episode 2609, Aired in 2003
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The Soul of A Congresswoman
She is called the “Warrior on the Hill.” A political pioneer and civil and human rights icon, Eleanor Holmes Norton represents the District of Columbia in Congress. Norton discusses her career and t...
Episode 2611, Aired in 2003
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Black Women Who Stop At Nothing
The guests on this program represent a group of affluent and influential Americans. Harriett Michel, president of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, and Dr. Marilyn French Hubbard, V...
Episode 2612, Aired in 2003
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Threats to Black Youth
Dr. John Palmer, executive director of Harlem Hospital Center, comments on why the death rate is 50 percent higher among Black infants in Harlem than other areas of New York City. John Daniel, Vice Pr...
Episode 2613, Aired in 2003
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God Is Ahead by 13 Percent
Sales for gospel music have grown by 13 percent while they are down by 24 percent for the Hip Hop genre and other popular music forms. Vicki Mack Lataillade, president of Gospo Centric Records, found...
Episode 2614, Aired in 2003
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Banneker: Truth To Power
The 39-member Congressional Black Caucus calls itself the “Conscience of the Congress.” Representative Elijah Cummings, who represents Maryland’s 7th district, serves as chair of the all-Democratic C...
Episode 2615, Aired in 2003
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The Brown Decision: A Family Legacy
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, 1...
Episode 2616, Aired in 2003
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Black Journalists Under The Spotlight
After the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times, many Black journalists working in mainstream media feel they are under attack and are on the defensive. Wayne Dawkins, author of Rugged Waters: B...
Episode 2617, Aired in 2003
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Stockpiling Black Genes
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 t...
Episode 2618, Aired in 2003
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