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Black history month on TV

Published Feb. 6, 2013

If you want to plan your Black History Month schedule around available television programming, you have lots of choices. As the saying goes, check your local TV listings.

Happy birthday Rosa Parks

Published Feb. 4, 2013

Today would have been Rosa Parks' 100th birthday. More than any other civil rights leader - with the exception of Martin Luther King Jr. - Parks is revered by many because of her essential contribution to the cause of equality for all.

Black history still matters to some

Published Feb. 4, 2013

The fact is that some Americans don't really see Black History Month as all that big a deal at all; other than some re-broadcast of "Roots" or a week-long roster of "black movies" from Hollywood, there doesn't seem to be much urgency to keep the month in the forefront.