#2801C1 – “A BROTHERHOOD OF FATHERS"
With research showing that more than 10 million children in America live in homes with no father, the term dead-beat dads became a battle cry for social activists agitating to make negligent fathers more responsible for their children. A forum called 100 Fathers Conference in Washington DC is taking the lead in solving the problem of absentee fathers and preventing child abuse and neglect.

#2802C1 – “WHEN WE SAY RACE DO WE MEAN CULTURE?”
There is no topic in American society that ignites more public—and private—debate than race. Now comes along an author who says that race does not exist and is a social construct with no scientific basis. Dr. Joseph Graves, author of The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists In America, suggests that race is more a psychological, sociological and political device than a scientific reality–and explains why.

#2803C1 – “IS RACE MEDICINE GOOD?”
A new racially-targeted drug that reduces death from heart disease among African-Americans has stirred a controversy that questions the effectiveness of the drug. However, this race-based medicine has arrived in a society that has rather imprecise ideas on what race means. The larger question is, as reported in the press, does race exist? Is this drug a magic bullet with no target? One of the investigators for the drug trials and a cardiologist appear to examine this issue.

#2807C1 – “BLACK AMERICA, THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING"
President Bush’s victory in 2004 increased his percentage of Black voters by two percent, and pushed the Democrats in Congress even deeper in the minority. How are Black Democrats responding to Bush’s campaign to attract more Black voters? Rep. Melvin L. Watt (NC), the new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses its agenda in the face of Bush’s presidential victory.

#2808C1 – “THE DOWN LOW: NO LONGER A SECRET”
Articulate and out-spoken, Keith Boykin, author of Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America, exposes a secret fraternity called the “down low,” which some say is the cause of the high incidence of HIV among Black women.

#2809C1 – “DO INTEGRATION AND DESEGREGATION MEAN THE SAME THING?”
Guest Sheryl Cashin, author of The Failures of Integration, believes that segregation is alive and well within the nation’s borders, and that race and class are destroying the foundation of American democracy.

#2810C1 – “THE MYSTERY OF BLACK SURVIVAL IN SPORTS”
Educators Dana Brooks and Ron Althouse, editors of Racism in College Sports, provide a scholarly approach to the issue of racism in college athletics.

#2811C1 – “SLAVERY: AMERICA’S MAIN HISTORICAL EVENT”
It is estimated that millions of Africans died during the Atlantic slave trade. Historian Anne Bailey has collected oral histories to document the slave trade from both sides of the Atlantic, placing oral records at the center of a historical analysis of slavery.

#2812C1 – “IS IQ A PRESCRIPTION FOR RACISM?”
Will the question of whether or not there are inherent differences in IQ between the races ever be answered? Alexander Allan’s book, Race in Mind, gives a new and comprehensive overview of the correlation of race to intelligence.

#2813C1 – “CAN THE U. S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS DO ITS JOB AS THE NATION’S CONSCIENCE?”
The new chairman of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, Gerald Reynolds, discusses the future of the agency and addresses charges that the commission has outlived its usefulness.

#2814C1 – “BLACK CONTRACT WITH AMERICA”
Why are an increasing number of leaders in the Black church moving toward what they call the New Black Church? Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., senior pastor of the Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland and founder of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, talks about the initiative to get a million signatures as part of what is being called a Black Contract with America on Moral Values.

#2815C1 – “IS FEDERAL POLICY THREATENING THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS?”
Blacks represent barely 13 percent of the population but nearly 40 percent of the total federal workforce. It has been estimated that this statistic represents nearly 80 percent of the Black middle class. What would happen if a disproportionate amount of Black federal workers were either displaced or lost their jobs? Darlene Young, national president of Blacks in Government, and Sharon Pinnock, director of Membership and Organizations for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, discuss the potential impact of the federal pay-for-performance initiative on the Black community.

#2816C1 – “ONE WOMAN’S SOLUTION TO HIV/AIDS"
Approximately 8,500 people die daily from AIDS and no medical or technological magic bullet is on the horizon. Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, co-director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing, has developed what she calls a low-tech approach. As a matter of fact, the Centers for Disease Control has adopted several of her HIV/AIDS prevention curricula for national use.

#2817C1 – “A MAN NAMED WHITE”
During the tenure of Walter White as the second Black executive secretary of the NAACP, Blacks were routinely lynched by White mobs in the 1930s. White used his Nordic appearance to investigate hate crimes against African Americans. White’s daughter and the author of a new book examining her father’s legacy discuss the periods in the civil rights leader’s life when he left the safety of one world to enter the violent society of racial hatred.

#2818C1 – “THE LEGACY OF RACE MOVIES”
Before Hollywood discovered the diverse talents of Black actors and directors, African American audiences were flocking to theaters to see low-budget, Black-produced films called “race” movies. These rare and mostly-forgotten films were a testament to a small group of Black pioneers, and film libraries are working to memorialize this piece of Americana.

#2820K1 – "IS BLACK –ONLY GOOD SCIENCE?”
A recent decision by the Federal Drug Administration to approve a prescription drug for self-identified Blacks has been met with mixed reviews. While some established medical organizations approve of the drug’s use, the implications of practicing medicine based on patients' racial identities is being questioned by other doctors. Dr. Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University and a medical doctor, tells Tony Brown why he feels that the decision to target Black people (at a cost of $400 for a month's supply) might have been predicated on business rather than any reliable science.

#2821K1 – “ARE YOU BLACK OR WHITE?”
About 100,000 years ago, defining race was not an issue because scientists agree that the first humans originated in Africa. Over the next 50,000 years, waves of humans left Africa and spread throughout the world. Today's human rainbow species is the result of that migration. This historic reality of genetic science came face to face with the modern concept of social race when students at Penn State University, who considered themselves as 100% Black or White, took a complex screening test that compared their samples with those of four regional anthropological groups. The results are eye-opening.

#2822K1 – “THE BLACK MALE IN JEOPARDY…WHY?”
He won the Best Columnist honor from Editor and Publisher magazine, the award in commentary for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Columnist of the Year Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and a plethora of other excellence in writing honors including 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Leonard Pitts, Jr., author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood, is a rare and insightful thinker whose commentary on the crisis of young Black males is a soul-stirring approach to one of the most crucial issues facing Black America today.

#2823K1 – “THE FACTS ABOUT YOUNG BLACK MALES"
When a speaker announced at an academic gathering at Howard University that Prince George's County, MD, a majority Black county traditionally targeted for poor-performing schools, was tops in the nation at graduating Black males, the Washington Post reported rumblings of disbelief in the audience. Statistically, the fact is that Prince George's County does graduate Black males at about the same rate as Whites. This meeting kicked off a nationwide study to determine if three decades of public policies are responsible for young Black males' dominance of all the wrong lists of achievement: poor school performance, jail population; juvenile crime, to cite a few. Dr. Gail Christopher, Vice President of the Office of Health, Women and Families of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and creator of the study, appears on the program to sort out this seemingly contradictory situation and examine the broader picture of young Black male failure.

#2824K1 – “SON LIKE FATHER”
Nationwide, 60% of Black males do not graduate from high school. That statistic is bad enough, but the implications for the future of the Black community and the nation are truly frightening. This places Asa Wynn Grant's already spectacular achievement in an even more spectacular context. Asa is a Black male who just graduated from Granby High School in Norfolk, VA with the highest Grade Point Average—a 4.49 or an A+ average—of any student, White or Black, in the entire school system. Asa says it’s not all brains, but something else—that every student possesses—that is responsible for his success. Along with his father, Asa explains the simple truth about what it takes to achieve excellence.

#2825K1 – “DOES THE SCLC HAVE A FUTURE?”
As Black America clamors for a national monument to Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., questions about the direction of the organization that he lead for years—SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—continue to plague its effectiveness. Does the SCLC have a future? Rev. James Baylark, President of the Riverside County Southern Christian Leadership Conference, says yes.

#2826K1 – “THE BLACK ELITE”
Dr. Lois Benjamin, author of the new book The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the 21st Century, masterfully presents a myriad of changes underlying the value shift of the post-Civil Rights generations, such as desegregation of social institutions; changes in the institutional, organizational affiliations and networks of Black communities and the interconnectedness of our global society.