AFRICAN AMERICANS (see also BLACKS)
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Pacifica’s coverage of the Los Angeles uprising / executive producer Don Rush.
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Pacifica’s National coverage of the Los Angeles uprising / produced by Ginny Z. Berson ; interviews by Larry Bensky.
Examination of the causes and events of the Los Angeles uprising. Examines the acquital of LAPD officers for excessive force in the Rodney King beating, the urban violence which followed, and President Bush’s reaction.|PACIFICA’S NATIONAL COVERAGE OF THE LOS ANGELES UPRISING / produced by Ginny Z. Berson| interviews by Larry Bensky. – Examination of the…
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Black education : what is its purpose? / Kwame Ture.
Kwame Ture, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, speaks about a basic question in learning: accepting or questioning what is presented. He points to how education in the United States is aimed at keeping people ignorant and arrogant of their ignorance. He argues that the history of oppressed peoples must begin in the era when they…
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Carry on Black quartet singing / Bernice Johnson Reagon ; interviewed by John Patton.
Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the founders of Sweet Honey in the Rock, discusses carrying on some of the musical traditions of quartet singing. She explains the traditional music’s impact on present Rhythm and Blues and gospel music, her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, and the role of her education at Spellman College where…