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The Relevance of Modern U.S. Black Leadership

In the wake of Jesse Jackson's trip to Mexico City -- where he had strong words for Mexican President Vicente Fox after recent controversial comments about black Americans -- Ed Gordon discusses the relevance of modern leadership in the African-American community. He is joined by Robert Smith, professor of political science at San Francisco State University and the author of We Have No Leaders: African-Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era and political analyst and commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

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