"CNN Presents: Black in America" a six-hour television event

Some of the topics.

• Black and single: Is marriage only for white people? | Black men respond
• DNA provides clues to family's African ancestry
• AC360.com: The Rand family's black and white cousins meet for the first time
• Keeping it real: Sisters and brothers talk about modern love and marriage
• AC360.com: Why Soledad O'Brien, Barack Obama and others are black
• Soledad O'Brien: Shopping while black in America
• Lola Ogunnaike: Italian Vogue says black is the new black
• Expert: Recessions often 'demonstrably worse" for black Americans
• Volunteers save high-school dropouts one student at a time
• Essence: Women of war share their courageous stories from combat
• Interactive: Vanessa Williams, Whoopi Goldberg talk about what it means to black
• Angela Burt-Murray: Black women consider interracial relationships
• Black hair: Long, short, natural, permed, locked or braided
• Tatsha Robertson: Education is No. 1 issue for black America
• Jury: Black community denied water for decades
• Woman beats poverty, aims for her Ph.D.
• I AM: Author Bliss Broyard's father kept his race a secret
• I AM: Barbara Hillary is the first black woman to reach the North Pole at age 75
• Aggressive, drug-resistant breast cancer affects black women
• Teens from single-parent, female-headed households defy the odds
• Essence Music Festival: A festival of empowerment
• Essence: Extreme Lockup: Why are so many children being treated like criminals?
• Lynya Floyd: Why are so many black women single?
• Obama calls absent black fathers to task
• Essence: Black women whose roles shape the 2008 presidential campaign
• Commentary: Why Americans can't get over race
• CNN HBCU Tour: Students share what it means to be black in America
• Young People Who Rock: Rissi Palmer is changing the face of country music
• Celebrities talk about what it means to be black in America
• HBCUs, business leaders help groom future entrepreneurs
• Essence: Experts discuss greatest challenges for black Americans in 2008
• Wounds still linger for children of civil rights activists
• 'Call My Name' adds color to AIDS quilt
• iReport.com: Morehouse student wins HBCU student contest