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fact, that although blacks represent only thirteen percent of our national population they represent some thirty percent of those ...

stations. They practiced karate moves on the new carpets. Some of them even learned how to read, but none of them as quickly as ...

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

about the effect of such statistics on their parenting style, especially in the presence of poverty as a contributing factor. The ...

to black versus white homicide victims: 1) Young black males stand a five-to-ten times greater risk of dying by homicide than thei...

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

1. The instillation of coping skills for the PTSD which will allow the client to pursue a productive life....

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

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...

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...

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...