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

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

this latter definition of the way that publishing is taking place may be seen as more controversial, while some blogs and publishe...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

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

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...

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

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

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

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

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

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

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

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

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