Use the Past to Educate
the Future

• If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then take a behind-the-scenes look at the PBS series "Africans in America," which unmasks the racism in America's roots. This searing and intense work illustrates how slavery and oppression became part of the code of life in a nation whose economy was rooted in "free labor."
• Read a moving tribute to black Union soldiers from a descendant of a Civil War veteran in "Colored Yankee Soldiers: Their Time Has Come."
• A sidebar about those who wore the gray also reveals "Black Confederates Have Their Own Lessons to Teach ." What's the irony? "In the end, to grasp how some blacks acted against their best interest 130 years ago, might help some African Americans today."
• "Denouncing Hypocrisy" reports on the non-violent protest efforts of the NAACP's Kweisi Mfume to expose the U.S. Supreme Court's failure to produce equal opportunity in its hiring practices.

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