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Connie On...
 2002 Audio Commentaries
- Latino Representation on Television
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | December 23, 2002
Connie Rice talks with Tavis Smiley about a new report that raises questions about the way TV network news programs cover Hispanics.
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- Reducing Gang Violence in Los Angeles
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | December 10, 2002
Connie Rice speaks to Tavis Smiley about what she thinks Los Angeles's new police chief William Bratton should be doing to reduce gang violence and improve police-community relations.
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- Ashcroft Alert
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | November 25, 2002
Connie Rice sounds another Ashcroft alert saying the government is making some suprise moves to increase its power to monitor American citizens.
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- Learning from the Failure of L.A. Secession Initiative
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | November 20, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks with Connie Rice about the wider implications of Los Angeles' failed seccession initiative.
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- Impact of GOP Victory on Judicial Nominees
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | November 11, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks with Connie Rice about the impact of the midterm elections on the federal judiciary. Rice says Democrats now have an uphill battle to prevent far right-wing nominees from becoming judges.
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- Juvenile Justice Disparities
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | October 22, 2002
Connie Rice discusses with Tavis Smiley the three recent murder cases where the defendants were children prosecuted as adults. Rice says that the African American children faced greater difficulty gaining national support.
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- Diploma as a Political Passport
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | October 15, 2002
Connie Rice tells Karen Grigsby Bates that a high school diploma is a political passport that shouldn't be denied merely on the basis of test results.
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- AIDS as a Threat to National Security
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | October 8, 2002
Connie Rice talks to Tavis Smiley about the CIA's concern that the international HIV/AIDS epidemic could pose a national security risk to the U.S.
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- Ashcroft Alert
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | October 1, 2002
Connie Rice says Attorney General John Ashcroft is exerting too much control over the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a previously independent arm of the Justice Department that gathers information on crime and its causes.
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- Urban Peace Awards
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 17, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks with Connie Rice, creator of the Urban Peace Awards, and with legendary entertainer and human rights advocate and co-host of the event, Harry Belafonte.
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- September 11 Round Table, Part 2
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 11, 2002
Tavis Smiley continues the round table discussion on the impact and aftermath of September 11th with commentators including Connie Rice.
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- September 11 Round Table, Part 1
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 11, 2002
Tavis Smiley has regular commentators including Connie Rice on for a special round table discussion on the impact and aftermath of September 11, 2001.
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- Iraq
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | September 6, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks with Connie Rice about the Bush administration's plans for war with Iraq.
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- Reflections on Reparations
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 27, 2002
Connie Rice tells Tavis Smiley that the reparations debate shouldn't just be about who gets what. It should also help Americans recognize their shared history.
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- Ashcroft Commentary
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 20, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks to Connie Rice, who believes that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft needs adult supervision.
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- Heroics and Healthcare
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 14, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks to Connie Rice about the cost of heroic medical efforts to save lives. Rice says lawmakers should push Americans to be healthier and to make the sacrifices needed to insure quality health care for everyone.
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- CalGang Database
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | August 6, 2002
Connie Rice speaks to Tavis Smiley about the CalGang database, a computer system she says is inaccurate and often misused by law enforcement authorities.
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- Inglewood Indictments
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | July 19, 2002
With two police officers pleading innocent in the videotaped beating of Donovan Jackson in Inglewood, Calif., Tavis Smiley speaks with Connie Rice about the challenges and community responsibilities in reforming overly aggressive police departments.
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- The Minds of Women
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | July 2, 2002
Connie Rice talks with Tavis Smiley about new studies showing that the brains of women are more developed than those of men. Rice says the findings may help educators develop better ways to teach.
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- Activism vs. Terrorism
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 21, 2002
Karen Grigsby Bates talks to lawyers Connie Rice and Russell Brooks about a $4.4 million jury verdict for two environmentalists who sued the FBI and the Oakland, Calif., police department for defamation. They discuss where the line is drawn between terrorism and activism and whether law enforcers see the distinction.
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- Jose Padilla's Civil Rights
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 18, 2002
Federal authorities say they stopped American Jose Padilla as he was plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in the United States. But Connie Rice believes Padilla's arrest underscores the risks and challenges of the war on terrorism.
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- Issues in Intelligence
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 10, 2002
Connie Rice talks with Tavis Smiley about lapses in intelligence coordination before Sept. 11, and explores how profiling affects Arab Americans and other minorities.
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- Orange County, Calif., Changes
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | June 5, 2002
Connie Rice tells Tavis Smiley why, according to the 2000 Census, Orange County, California, is changing. Once synomymous with white flight from the city, the county is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse.
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- Bright Ideas On Intelligence
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 29, 2002
Connie Rice talks to Tavis Smiley about the failure of intelligence agencies before the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice says there needs to be a fundamental change in the way the various organizations are structured to insure vital information doesn't get lost in the intelligence bureaucracy.
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- Race Patterns
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 13, 2002
Social scientists are slicing and dicing data from the 2000 Census, looking for clues about segregation, integration and assimilation. Connie Rice believes the numbers say a lot about the way we live.
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- Milken Foundation Conference
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | May 7, 2002
Connie Rice tells Tavis Smiley why she (a black female civil rights lawyer) recently attended a conference dominated by white male investment bankers and venture capitalists. She also talks about some surprising comments made there by former California Governor and now Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown.
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- LA Riots and the LAPD
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 26, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks to Connie Rice about the role of the Los Angeles Police Department during the 1992 riots. Connie talks about her experience in Los Angeles during the riots as well how the LAPD's aggressive police tactics lead to a deep-seated resentment from the community that was manifested in the riots. She also assesses how today's LAPD differs from the force of a decade ago.
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- LA Chief Police
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 16, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about what lessons can be learned by the split between African American leaders in Los Angeles, and the city's white Mayor, James Hahn, over Hahn's decision not to back a second term for L.A.'s black police chief, Bernard Parks.
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- English-Only Laws
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 9, 2002
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma struck down a proposed English-only law last week, saying it would violate the right of free speech and the right to petition government for redress. Tavis Smiley speaks to Connie Rice, who says such laws are motivated by a misguided fear that immigrants will displace English as the common tongue.
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- Prison Work
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | April 2, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks to Connie Rice about the use of prison labor outside the walls of the penitentiary. Connie says that while the labor itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's cause for alarm that some poor rural communities depend on it.
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- Affirmative Action Faculty
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 26, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks to Connie Rice about the lack of diversity among the ranks of college and university faculty, especially at the more prestigious institutions.
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- Priest Misconduct
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 19, 2002
Tavis Smiley speaks to Connie Rice about the molestation scandal in the Catholic church. Rice says the church has had a culture of secrecy, but the only way to eradicate this problem is to deal with it openly.
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- Pickering Vote
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 15, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about the nomination of trial Judge Charles Pickering to the federal appeals court. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee killed the nomination yesterday in a party line vote.
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- Trying Minors as Adults
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 12, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about a California law recently upheld by the state's Supreme Court that allows prosecutors to decide whether to charge minors as adults.
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- Deconstructing Mike Tyson
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | March 5, 2002
Tavis Smiley checks in with Connie Rice on the latest controversy surrounding Mike Tyson. Rice says feminists disagree whether Tyson should be allowed back in the ring to earn his living.
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- Two Views of Media Bias
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 27, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about two recent books that come to very different conclusions about bias in the newsroom.
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- New Florida Law Schools
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 26, 2002
Florida Governor Jeb Bush recently signed legislation to re-open the law school at historically black Florida A&M University. Tavis Smiley talks to the school's dean, Percy Luney, and regular legal commentator, Connie Rice, about maintaining diversity in higher education without affirmative action.
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- Nation of Islam
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 19, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about the Nation of Islam's new message of outreach and healing.
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- When Not to Cry Race
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 12, 2002
Connie Rice tells host Tavis Smiley that she's tired of African Americans using race as a litmus test for leadership. She says it's a bad way to choose leaders, and it makes others think the African American community is crying wolf when race really does matter.
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- Connie Rice Grades President Bush
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | February 5, 2002
Tavis Smiley checks in with Connie Rice about President Bush's State of the Union speech last week. While she agrees with Bush's war on terrorism, Rice opposes his economic agenda, and criticizes him for wrapping it in the mantle of patriotism.
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- Saving Black Men
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 29, 2002
Connie Rice talks to Tavis Smiley about the importance of women working together with men to save troubled communities from gang warfare and drugs.
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- Media Reaction to Crimes By People of Color
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 22, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about how media and society react very differently to the misdeeds of people such as John Walker, the 20-year-old Californian who joined with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, than they do to young men of color accused of crimes.
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- The New Gilded Age
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 15, 2002
Tavis talks with Connie Rice about the aftermath of the longest economic expansion in modern U.S. history.
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- Middle Class Politics
The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR | January 7, 2002
Tavis Smiley talks with Connie Rice about the lack of financial support from the Black middle class for Black politicians.
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