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recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

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...

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

the subsequent verdict has divided New Yorkers. Since the young, Haitian immigrant was riddled with bullets by police, there have ...

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Me" Hurston writes, "I remember the very day I became colored...But I am not tragically colored. Someone is always at my elbow rem...

into his own. Although racism persists today, it is nowhere near the problem it was during the 1960s and 1970s of which Aschenbren...

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

gained in a variety of ways, but most knowledge of that type is obvious and straightforward. One of the enduring purposes of high...

problems include adolescent pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births, poor maternal/infant care, problems with disease control and sexu...

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 ...

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

is retained and that African Americans are able to live in the world in peace. Yet, historically, peace is not always something th...

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...

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

"[A]fter school while his mother worked, Lawrence attended a day- care program at Utopia Childrens House, where he studied arts an...