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Tony Brown's Journal • 2007 Programs
#3001KI – CIVILIZATION’S FIRSTBORN
The discovery of the 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a Dikika infant is a major development in the study of human evolution. Evolutionary biologist Dr. Joseph Graves, author of “The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America,” provides intriguing insight into the evolution of the human race.
#3002K1 – WERE ANGOLANS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICANS?
How much do we know about the first Africans to settle in the English colony of Jamestown in 1619? Recently discovered artifacts suggest that the true origin of the first African Americans is Angola. Tom Davidson, senior curator of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and Liz Montgomery of the Virginia African American Forum, discuss this little-known history.
#3003K1– PEARL: AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
The 54-ton schooner named the Pearl sailed into the history books on April 15, 1848 when 77 enslaved Americans attempted an escape to freedom. Mary Kay Ricks, author of “Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad” gives this stirring account of human resilience against the backdrop of oppression.
#3004K1 – A $40 MILLION SLAVE?
William C. Rhoden, New York Times’ sports columnist and author of “Forty Million Dollar Slaves,” discusses the evolution of exploitation in athletics.
#3005K1 – THE BLACK KKK FIRST LADY
In a mixture of fact and fiction, writer Charlene Porter, author of “Boldfaced Lies,” examines the social concept of race, the KKK and the cultural phenomenon called “passing.”
#3006K1 – COLLEGE HERE THEY COME
While young Blacks nationwide are largely shut out of advanced placement courses, half of the Black high school students in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools.are enrolled in honors courses. The county’s school superintendent Dr. Jerry West and deputy superintendent Dr. Frieda Lacey discuss their strategy for success.
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