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- 1From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 3, Issue 3)A crucial development in the history of black performance was when stereotypical images went from drawings to photographs of blacks engaged in the perenially American performance of blackness in part for a white...
- 2From:Civil Rights Journal (Vol. 5, Issue 1)SINCE THE HEYDAY of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the public has viewed the elite news media as proponents of racial equality and advocates for the black poor. Yet the stones about poverty in the national news...
- 3From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 9, Issue 2-3)The following is an except from writer Ishmael Reed's upcoming novel, title Koots . IN THIS CHAPTER, REED SPEAKS OF THE RACE AND GENDER LAYERS INVOLVED IN THE MEDIA TREATMENT OF O.J. SIMPSON'S MURDER TRIAL. I was...
- 4From:Civil War History (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn March 1863 a Union officer wrote to his hometown newspaper inquiring, "Are there any contrabands wanted in Iowa City, or its vicinity for help this spring? If so, please let me hear from you. I could send a large...
- 5From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedFew would argue with the assertion that the American Dream doesn't pack the ideological punch it once did. From the pages of national newspapers to Frontline, from books detailing the "fall from grace" of the American...
- 6From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Florence Mills was one of only a few African American women vaudeville performers to become an international success. Born in Washington D.C. in 1895 and raised in Harlem, New York, Mills was a child performer...
- 7From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness WeekBy a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on Diet and Nutrition Disorders have been published. According to news reporting originating from Washington, District of...
- 8From:American Educational History Journal (Vol. 40, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDuring the early 1920s, the question of who should control the schooling of African American children caused controversy in several Southern states, including Georgia. White educationists and bureaucrats were divided...
- 9From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is in the community life of a great city that the library has its most challenging opportunity. The more homogeneous such a life the greater is the opportunity of becoming part of it, since all currents flow...
- 10From:Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Many philosophers have argued that psychological time is a fundamental, inherent quality of consciousness that provides continuity and sequence to mental events--enabling memory. And, since memory ix...
- 11From:Journal of School Leadership (Vol. 23, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedUsing qualitative analysis from 22 semistructured interviews, this article explores how Black women principals and assistant principals experience educational administration with attention to issues of race at work in...
- 12From:Human Genetics (Vol. 133, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedC-reactive protein (CRP) is a heritable biomarker of systemic inflammation and a predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). large-scale genetic association studies for CRP have largely focused on individuals of European...
- 13From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness WeekBy a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on Weight Loss have been presented. According to news originating from Durham, North Carolina, by NewsRx correspondents, research...
- 14From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2015 OCT 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Susan G. Komen announced the launch of a free educational resource that provides accurate and useful information about...
- 15From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness WeekTo combat the high toll of HIV and AIDS among black women in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched Take Charge. Take the Test., a new campaign to increase HIV testing and...
- 16From:The Sport Journal (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe countless health benefits of adopting healthy eating habits have been well documented. It is troubling then that studies examining dietary behaviors among minority women find that compared with European American...
- 17From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 29, Issue 12)African-Americans in California have more to gain than any other ethnic group in completing college, a new study has found. While other members of other races will spend fewer years in poverty if they receive a partial...
- 18From:Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy (Vol. 17) Peer-ReviewedAfrican American political behavior is an understudied dimension of the American electorate. In some ways, Black voting behavior and voting frequency parallel mainstream trends, but there are notable differences. These...
- 19From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 38, Issue 11)General and smoking-specific weight concerns were more common among white women than among white men and black men and women preparing to quit smoking, but weight concerns were prevalent in all of the groups, according...
- 20From:Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases (Vol. 68, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLupus nephritis is one of the most serious manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). African Americans generally have a more severe presentation and more often progress to end stage renal disease (ESRD) than...