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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...
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...
in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...
and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...
beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...
Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...
an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...
source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...
D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...
on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...
a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...
with "relatively well-adjusted" individuals (Hood and Johnson 213). It measures "everyday characteristics," such as "soci-ability,...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...
the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...
gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...
became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....
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 ...
problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...
trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...
in their performance on reading tasks, comprehension and writing efforts. Citation materials are also available on the WEB and ...
of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...