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Slavery's Biggest Secret
The answer to that question is one of many surprising facts about the history of slavery in America. Journalist Anne Farrow, co-author of “Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited f...
Episode 2902, Aired in 2006
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Southern Slavery Northern Lies
The second installation of a two-part series on the North’s hidden history as a slave region, addresses king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade, among other historic events. Journalist Jeni...
Episode 2903, Aired in 2006
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Tuskegee Airmen Still Flying High
Still flying high after 60 years, the Tuskegee Airmen’s story stands as one of the most illustrious chapters in American military history. As a testament to this courageous group of patriots, the U. ...
Episode 2904, Aired in 2006
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Who Was Stepin Fetchit
Who was the real man behind one of Hollywood’s most negative images, Stepin Fetchit? Mel Watkins, author of “Who Was Stepin Fetchit?”, says that Lincoln Perry was very different from the lazy, bug-ey...
Episode 2905, Aired in 2006
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A Plan Blacks Could Use
Is there a viable plan to solve the many problems confronting Black America? Dr. John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “Winning the Race,” believes that Blacks can ...
Episode 2906, Aired in 2006
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Justice Delayed
Harry T. Moore, who was at the vanguard of the civil rights movement in Florida, and his wife Harriet were killed when their home was firebombed in 1951. Harry Moore became the first NAACP official t...
Episode 2911, Aired in 2006
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The Secret Of A Lifetime
June Cross is a tenured professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. She unfolds the painful but challenging s...
Episode 2916, Aired in 2006
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The Man Who Is Black And White-Not Half White
If anyone just happens to be Black and White, it’s Dr. Gregory H. Williams. Dr. Williams is president of The City College of New York and author of “Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a Whit...
Episode 2917, Aired in 2006
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A Talk With A Brilliant Mind
While soaring professionally, pioneering journalist and author Barbara Reynolds almost drowned in a private hell of the demons from her past -- abandonment by her mother, incest, longing for the child...
Episode 2918, Aired in 2006
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Idlewild: The Real Thing
Dr. Ronald Stephens, author of Idlewild: Black Eden of Michigan and John O. Meeks, an Idlewild entrepreneur, explore Idlewild’s Michigan history as an intellectual and recreational haven for African-A...
Episode 2919, Aired in 2006
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