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In five pages this paper examines 'jumping the broom' and other rituals that were part of the 19th century American slave marriage...

In five pages the ways in which the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass reflect slavery in America are exa...

In this paper the writer observes that 'Abraham Lincoln was able to shape the history of the African American. He is the very embl...

would have been that of the native Americans, an earth based religion, centring on seeing the Earth as a whole and human kind only...

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

winters are rarely colder than the mid-40s and summers almost never top the 80s. Some interesting facts about the city are that ...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

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...

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...

source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

a student, as an African American male and as a scholar of the world requires an understanding of the events in history that have ...

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

what African American men cannot do, rather than what they can do. 4. Bill experienced White stereotyping of Blacks, and offered ...

music, or existed in the industry of music, but has actually proven that it is the driving force for a great deal of mainstream cu...

the population. The issue of environmental justice is one of great importance, since peoples health is at stake. "Environmental j...