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Brothaspeak on BlackTVOnline.com

UDC — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:21:54 +0000

If you haven’t visited this African American Online television station, now’s the time. Here’s a video of their last webcast. Go to Brothaspeak on BlackTVOnline.com. The Black Men are with a groundbreaking webcast - Kevin Zeese, Green party candidate for Maryland US Senate seat, and Maryland Delegate Jill Carter discuss the viability of third party campaigns.

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African American Men Through History

UDC — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:08:21 +0000

Here is a great video highlighting great African American men down through history.

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UDC Look: America’s Promise Alliance

ddavis — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:14:45 +0000

America’s Promise Alliance works with General Colin Powell, who is the founding father, of a program that gives back to American youth through the vision of the Five Promises. The Five Promises have the power to transform at-risk children’s lives, not in the hundreds, but in the millions.

Read more about America’s Promise Alliance.

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UDC News: Flash Presentation Under Construction

UDC — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:24:20 +0000

LATEST NEWS FROM UDC: We are currently putting together a flash presentation for our front page featuring the young men involved in the United Development Center. It will be ready shortly and uploaded. Further, we are in the process of conducting interviews with one young entrepreneur and one very talented artist that will be streamed through our site. Look for these additions as they become available.

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Who Was Booker T. Washington?

UDC — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:23:57 +0000

As you travel this great nation, it is no accident you will see a lot of schools given the name of Booker T. Washington. That is because this great black educator and leader set the standard and carved out a new path in the years right after the fall of slavery to lead his people to a better way. He showed his people a way of education, accomplishment, achievement and the prosperity that naturally comes with those goals.

In 1901, the biography of Booker T. Washington was published with the fitting title Up From Slavery. Washington’s struggle to rise up from the limitations of a slave’s life to be come one of the most respected black leaders in America is one of the reasons he is revered in black history as one of the greats who really made a difference for his people.
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The History of Affirmative Action

UDC — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:49:39 +0000

The history of the growth of equality for African Americans in America has been one of great accomplishments followed by many small gains and many set backs as well. The outlawing of slavery did not instantly make all blacks equal with whites in America. It took many subsequent legal actions as well as hundreds of social efforts, big and small, to slowly make the progress we have seen today. But even in this day and age, in a new century, there is an ongoing battle against racism. It seems we need leadership to guide society to true equality as much now as ever in our history.

The abolition of slavery only began the long hard struggle for African American culture to become a true part of what it means to be an American. That is because even though the legal definition of slavery had been thrown down, the attitudes and cultural systems in place to keep the races separate and to deny black people rights equal with whites had to be addressed one by one.
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