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1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...

Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

in the nation. Unlike groups that came over with money, Africans came without even clothes on their backs. They were chained and s...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

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