African History With A Contemporary Idea...

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"When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of Whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as Whites in proportion to their size in the population." If Dr. King were alive today to witness the ascension of the nation’s first Black president, would his happiness be overshadowed by the glaring realities of a country engaged in three wars; where over 14 percent of its people live in poverty, and where there are now more Black men in the prison industrial complex than were enslaved in 1850? Harry Belafonte, a friend of Dr. King said the civil rights leader iterated, “I fear that I'm trying to integrate my people into a burning house." In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Dr. King told the world that Negroes in America were still crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination a...

Timing is everything... Part of the overall argument for reparations for the descendents of enslaved Africans  occurred at this marathon panel discussion held at UC Santa Barbara in 2002.

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Iraq For Sale: War Profiteers This documentary gives another view of the "real deal"and connects the dots to the motives behind the "art of war."