Power Race Sex

For US Black History Month, today’s program provides excerpts from a very vibrant – almost rollicking discussion among distinctive viewpoints on Black women’s power and that of their communities from the panel “Power: Is It a Sexual Thing?” at the National Association of Black Journalists conference, 1991, held in Kansas City, Missouri (updated to 2024). The Moderator is Beverly “Bevy” Smith from Black Entertainment TV. Panelists: economist and columnist Julianne Malveaux; Gwendolyn Grant from the Kansas City Urban League and KCTP public TV; columnist Dorothy Butler Gilliam, first African American woman reporter at The Washington Post; and, anthropologist Niara Sudarkasa, president of Lincoln University.

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