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a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

This paper is a fictional account of a young African-American coming of age and his travels throughout South Africa and the US. Th...

In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

In six pages the various factors that influence the donation of organs by African Americans are discussed along with ways in which...

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

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 ...