DID HISTORY MISS EMMETT TILL?
Author Clenora Hudson-Weems examines the gruesome 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. She also challenges the widespread belief that Rosa Parks refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus precipitated the modern civil rights movement. Instead, she believes, it was Tills murder that was the catalyst of the movement in the 50s and 60s. #2709 THE BLACK EAGLE Who is Joe Madison? To his radio listeners he is The Black Eagle who soars the airwaves on Radio One and XM Satellite One. He is a civil rights activist to those who have followed his career with the NAACP. Television and radio audiences know him as an abolitionist against modern-day slavery in Sudan. Madison talks about his extraordinary commitment to the principles of human rights. #2710 BLACK MAN OUT The downward spiral for Black men begins in Head Start classrooms, reported the findings of an initiative on the college enrollment and graduation for Black men. When compared with other ethnic groups, Black men a