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these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

part of U.S. history, it makes sense to delve somewhat deeper; to focus on the Black cowboy as well. An understanding of how the A...

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

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

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 ...

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

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...

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

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...

also helps to prevent medication errors through other methods such as bar coding and scanning ("About Us," 2008). This is a firm t...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

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...

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...

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...