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Interested in black issues? Check this out: commentator/television host Tavis Smiley's annual conference covering the subject. This year's conference was entitled, "Jamestown - America's 400th Anniversary: The African American Imprint On America." In the first special, shot on location at Hampton University in February '07, the panel discusses the link between the nation's first African American settlers 400 years ago and the African American community of today. The panel participants include Rev. Al Sharpton; actor/producer Tim Reid; astronaut Dr. Mae Jamison; Dr. Cornel West of Princeton University; Lerone Bennett Jr., former editor of Ebony magazine; Judge Glenda Hatchett; Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota; former Virginia governor L. Douglass Wilder; and Cathy Hughes, founder and chairperson of Radio One. - forrest green III

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