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- Net Wars: NAACP Battles for Space on Network
TV illustrates the point that the venerable civil rights organization
maintains a vital role by challenging the major television networks on
the ways African Americans are represented on and employed in this powerful
medium.
- In his latest book, "The Debt," Randall Robinson raises serious
questions about what happened to the promised forty acres and a mule, which
was the government's pledge of a firm, fair start. The Touchy Question
of Reparations makes one wonder - can African Americans find justice without
it.
- In A Dialogue Between Generations, Manning Marable reflects
on a conversation held with a young man who believed the prospects for
fundamental change in the near future are almost nonexistent. That despair
moved Marable to a reply that sets the overall tone of this issue: "...Don't
be intimidated by the power of the system. People united in struggle can
make new history."
- That same spirit is celebrated in the film that might earn actor Denzel
Washington an Academy Award. Read about the men behind the fight that led
to the righting of an injustice and the release of boxer Reuben "Hurricane"
Carter in Let Freedom Ring.
- Late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was, for lack of
a better word, the engineer of the American journey toward freedom and
that notion is explored in A Strident Path.. This article looks
closely at books that attempt to analyze the life and work of Marshall
against this nation's official policy of racism, segregation and discrimination.
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