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

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...

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

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

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

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

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 ...

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

will result in them believing it. Similarly, keeping African-Americans in the degrading conditions of slavery has instilled a bel...

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

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

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