Mayor's Commission on African-American Males: Recommendations Report, February 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 In 2011, Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter relaunched the Mayor's Commission on African-American Males (MCAAM) to study conditions faced by Black men and boys and to make recommendations on how to affect positive outcomes.
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Factors Associated with Colorectal Cancer Screening among Younger African American Men: A Systematic Review [PDF]
, 2014 Of cancers affecting both men and women, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cancer killer among African Americans in the U.S. Compared to White men, African American men have incidence and mortality rates 25% and 50% higher from CRC.
Foster, Margaret +2 more
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The Iowa African-American Journal, Winter 2002/Spring 2003, Vol. 8, no. 2 [PDF]
, 2003 Newsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of African ...
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From Branch Ministries to Selma: Why the Internal Revenue Service Should Strictly Enforce the Section 501(C)(3) Prohibition Against Church Electioneering [PDF]
, 2008 On Sunday, March 4, 2007, congregations in African American churches in Selma, Alabama, commemorated the forty-second anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 Selma voting-rights march.
Hawkins, Sarah
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Unveiling Language Prejudice: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Racial Slurs Across Genres
Journal of Languages and Language TeachingDiscrimination and racism have been obvious for decades. This encompasses derogatory racial epithets such as "nigger, niggers, n-words". The objective of this study was to employ corpus-based analysis in order to examine the frequency of racial ...
Fadhlur Rahman +2 more
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"Creating something else to be" : negotiating African American female subjectivities in Toni Morrison's Sula, Beloved, and Jazz : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]
, 1996 Toni Morrison's novels, Sula, Beloved, and Jazz delineate the struggles of African American women to attain subject positions in a society where blackness and femaleness mark them as 'others,' and where women are objectified in the male pursuit of ...
Smith, Angela Marie
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The cascade of social determinants in producing chronic disease in low-income African-American men
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2018 Purpose: There is a dearth of effective, evidence-based programs to reduce chronic disease in low-income African-American men. We report on the results of formative research in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded MOCHA Moving Forward project ...
David Buchanan +3 more
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Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000 [PDF]
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we find that over time the effect of skin tone on ...
Akee, Randall K. Q., Yuksel, Mutlu
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Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Knowledge in Low-Income, Richmond, VA Community Dwelling Older Adults [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Different populations of individuals demonstrate varying levels of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) knowledge, as well as commonly held misconceptions about the nature of the disease and its risk factors.
Inker, Jennifer +4 more
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Racial Identity Development and Psychological Coping Strategies of Undergraduate and Graduate African American Males [PDF]
Journal of African American Males in Education, 2011 African American men face many socio-cultural, academic, and negative stressors that generate stress experiences and identity conflicts. These stressors, in turn, may lead to psychological pressures that negatively affect relationships that African ...
Eric Bridges
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