Monday, September 15, 2008

Crime & Redemption - Tookie

Crips gang founder and convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed December 13th. But he's hoping the governor will grant him clemency for his years as an anti-gang crusader. Monday night's Full Focus looks at crime, punishment, and redemption. Also reporter Rebecca Tolin profiles an organization that offers a "second chance" to parolees.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Read the small print - Dick Gregory

Justifiable Homicide: Louis Farrakhan

Justifiable Homicide: Black Youth In Peril
Mosque Maryam, Chicago, IL. - October 28, 2007
Minister Farrakhan cited statistics from a U.S. Department of Justice report which showed that in the year 2005, Blacks faced 800,000 violent crimes, approximately 8,000 homicides. Black males between 18 and 25 were 52 percent (6,800) of the 13,000 male homicide victims in that year—most at the hands of another Black man.

Saviors Day 2008 - Nation of Islam

The Slave Side of Sunday - Anthony Prior



Anthony Prior, a former professional athlete and an author, provides a critical analysis on the role of Africans in professional sports in his book The Slave Side of Sunday. "Black players have created a billion-dollar market but have no voice in the industry, no power. That sounds an awful lot like slavery to me," [Anthony Prior] says. "On plantations slaves were respected for their physical skills but were given no respect as thinking beings. On the football field, we are treated as what appears like gods, but in fact this is just the 'show and tell' of the management for their spectators. In reality, what is transpiring is that black athletes are being treated with disrespect and degradation. As soon as we take off that uniform, behind the dressing room doors, we are less than human. We are bought and sold. Traded and drafted, like our ancestors, and the public views this as a sport, ironically the same attitude as people had in the slavery era."

Friday, September 5, 2008

Kiri Davis - A Girl Like Me

Kiri Davis, a 17 year old Harlem student, recreates the famous doll experiment of the 1940's by psychologist Dr. Kenneth Clark.

Bill Cosby - A Boy Like Me ?

For those interested in the recent short film, "A Girl Like Me," here's a clip from a long-lost TV special where Bill Cosby reflects on another social experiment. In 1972, Mr. Cosby became a host of the PBS series THE ELECTRIC COMPANY and created FATALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS. He would eventually earn a doctorate in education in 1977 from The University of Massachusetts.

I'm Puerto As Well (Part 2)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Bill Cosby - Making the abnormal, normal.

Dr. Na'im Akbar (The 2008 interview)

An interview with Dr. Nai'm Akbar, founder of The Association of Black Psychologists and professor at Florida State University. Dr. Akbar is a world renown lecturer and book author. He is interviewed by Ms. Le Ondra Clark at the 40th Annual Convention of The Association of Black Psychologists in Oakland, August 2008.
Copyright by The Association of Black Psychologists. www.abpsi.org