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going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

nature than the concept of slavery. He endeavored to illustrate how oppressing one from living a free life inherently granted to ...

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

was not really prepared to deal with this influx of people who needed to be paid for work. They were suddenly in a society that di...

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...