Dr. Maulana Karenga, inventor of the Kwanzaa celebration, helps to challenge our notions of the role and significance of African Americans in this nation's history. This lesson also features leading scholar Dr. Lisa Delpit on the issue of educating minority children in our public schools.
Studio guest:
* Gary Flowers, National Field Director for Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
As the 21st century opens the United States along with nations around the world struggle to deal with a planet that has been become a global village. The challenges are both inter-cultural and intra-cultural. And for nations like the U.S. continued immigration from around the world constantly brings new ethnic/racial cultural challenges to an already diverse society. Dealing with Diversity introduces viewers to people from many diverse populations in an effort to help students understand the different constraints and motivations of people from backgrounds different from their own.
