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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

by everyone.5 The all-important link that connects all rituals and practices, individuals to society/community, and believers to ...

in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independenc...

In eight pages this paper examines whether the political activism espoused by Du Bois or the conciliatory model of Washington were...

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...

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...

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

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 ...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

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

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...