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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an idiopathic cardiomyopathy presenting with acute heart failure during the peripartum period. It is common in patients of African ancestry. Currently, there is paucity of...
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From:Journal of Advertising (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough there are studies of the portrayal of blacks in magazine ads and television commercials, information regarding Hispanic portrayals in this regard is quite limited. This paper uses content analysis to determine...
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From:Visual Media (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed20 min.; col.; 1990; video; Prod.: EBE; Dist.: Marlin Motion Pictures On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 people assembled near the Lincoln Memorial and demanded equal justice for all citizens. This program highlights...
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From:Urban History Review (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. Xvii, 158. Illustrations, US$35.00. The first black commercial insurance companies emerged in the late nineteenth century in part because white firms,...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEmpirical researchers and economic theorists have different notions about the existence of racial discrimination in mortgage lending policies. Researchers contend that the existence of discrimination is shown by the high...
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From:Review of Optometry (Vol. 141, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTopical glaucoma drops may delay or prevent the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in blacks who have ocular hypertension, according to the latest results of the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study, or OHTS....
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHAVING LIVED in the UK and worked in the NHS for 30 years, I have witnessed many changes, in society, politics and the NHS itself. I can remember when, in 1977, questioning a ward sister's authority was unheard of and,...
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From:Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a first look at the nature of the alternative functions of Black Afrikaans. These functions realise when Black Afrikaans is imitated by Afrikaans mother-tongue speakers. The functions of the...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 3, Issue 2)The trend is toward more rather than less segregation. We are nearing 50 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education. That decision not only declared school segregation unconstitutional, but was...
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From:Postgraduate Medical Journal (Vol. 77, Issue 907) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective--To assess the family history of diabetes in type 2 black South African diabetics with emphasis on the parental phenotype. Design--Prospective case-control study in which family histories were...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 312, Issue 7030) Peer-ReviewedPsychotic black patients living in London appear more likely to be incarcerated in a psychiatric intensive care facility or a prison compared with white patients. Researchers collected and correlated data on 402 London...
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From:Biography (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSTAND BY ON SET The aim of this photo essay, through simulated director cues, is to question viewers' intent in the consumption of videos that make a spectacle of the violence perpetrated on Black bodies. In the vein...
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From:The Black Scholar (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe black experience, history, and culture are the controlling categories for a black philosophy--not chromosomes. --William R. Jones It is with honor and humility both to be the guest editor (1) of this special...
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From:Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe term gangsta rap started to gain currency in 1989. Its first American broadsheet appearance was in the Los Angeles Times (Hilburn 1989), when the controversial single "Gangsta, Gangsta" by N.W.A. (Niggaz with...
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From:Ethnic Studies Review (Vol. 37-38, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Hyphy," a genre of rap and lifestyle associated with Bay Area hip hop evolved into a counter-cultural social movement for marginalized youth in early 2000. Hyphy originated from Black youth as a musical protest in...
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From:Kola (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBlack History Month is a time when most North Americans reflect on the contributions that Blacks have made to the development of civilisation. Many among us who immigrated to Canada have long wondered about the...
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From:Visual Media (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed20 min.; col.; 1987; video; Prod.: Handel Film; Dist.: Omega Films From the first American to die leading up to the revolutionary war, the fight for emancipation of the slaves, the underground railroad, the Ku Klux...
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From:Human Biology (Vol. 69, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe used a set of informative mtDNA and Y-chromosome-specific markers to determine the origin of maternal and paternal lineages in a sample of 41 Uruguayan black individuals. We found that 20 maternal lineages were...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 1)CARROLLTON, GA. In 1955 and 1956, every senior at an all-Black high school in Carrollton applied to West Georgia College. All were rejected because of the color of their skin. Forty-five years later, the college...
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From:International Journal of Men's Health (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigated the measurement suitability of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CED-S) when it was administered to older urban black men. This study used two samples of older black men in...