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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...
state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...
beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...
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...
verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...
generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...
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...
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...
source suggests that while the decision to marry a white person must of necessity be a personal one, there are things that should ...
on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...
D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...
the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...
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...
in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...
Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...
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 ...
Depression"). They were paid $1.00 per day for their work ("FDR and the Depression"). The "Black Cabinet" was part of the New Dea...