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as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...
Truth went to bat for every woman when she spoke before a crowd of hostile white people at the 1851 Ohio Womens Rights Convention,...
age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...
National Womens Health Information Center, 1998). Findings from a recent National Cancer Institute study noted how African Americ...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
finally relented and approved him for combat (Franklin, 1977). He received a serious injury during the war and received an honora...
However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...
to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...
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...
beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...
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...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
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 ...
in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...
generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...
and he wrote in 1949 that the "nuclear family is a universal human social group" (Carlson, 2004, p. 13). The function of marriage,...
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...
This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...