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Intrepid and charismatic, confident that her work was righteous and important for the race, Nannie Helen Burroughs was an impressive Christ...
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Although accounts of how race (and class) punctuated the elimination of African American midwives are well documented,6 this article further explores how downplaying the racial privilege of white midwives, medical personnel, and other figures in African American midwives' narratives has problematic implications for a contemporary midwifery movement that prides itself on inclusivity and its benefit to all women. INFLUENCES ON THE CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT FOR MIDWIVES The continued emphasis on the narrative accounts of African American midwives within the history of not only midwifery in the United States but also African American culture and life opens up possibilities for important discussions of race and the effects of a legacy of racism that still affects contemporary midwives in thei...
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In 1938 Roberta Martin, one of the pioneers of Gospel music, published a song that interlaced her Christian experience with the historic hymn "Amazing...
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In a 1931 article in the Daily Worker, NAACP leader Walter White proclaimed that African American women who joined the ranks of the Communist Party (C...
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Acknowledgements
The College Access Project for African Americans and preparation for this report were funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The...
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This study assesses and compares business training attitudes of female African American and Caucasian small business owners. The growth in entrepreneurs hip by African American women requires a better understanding of their professional development needs. Results reported here indicate that African American females place greater importance on business training than their Caucasian counterparts. This is consistent with previous studies which have shown that minority small business owners tend to assign higher importance ratings to business training than Caucasian business owners. Earlier findings on human capital and entrepreneurs indicate that education and work experience increase business success. Since minority female entrepreneurs tend to have less formal education and business expe...
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Conceptions of masculinities among African American male student athletes are considered in this article. Grounded in the social constructivist perspective and guided by the phenomenological qualitative research tradition, individual interviews were conducted with 27 academically driven African American male student-athletes attending four Division I universities. Findings suggest that the participants embrace a wide range of productive gender-related attitudes and behaviors that are uncommon among male college student-athletes. Implications and recommendations are offered for coaches and university administrators charged with working with African American male student-athletes.
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Newsy Names-Shamontiel Vaughn, Defender web editor, returns to her alma mater, Lincoln University (Missouri), Oct. 9-10 in the midst of Homecoming Week (how convenient!) to share her knowledge with students about the publishing industry, books and the Chicago Defender and to host a "meet n' greet" with authors . . . Eton Wilson, 64, long-time Mend and confidante of 111. secretary of Human Services' Dr. Carol L. Adams, died Saturday in the Charlotte, N.C. home of his daughter, Natalie. Friends and colleagues can memorialize his life during Early Vespers on Sunday, 3 p.m., at Grant Memorial AME Church, 4017 S. Drexel... Condolences to Larry Langford, Chicago Fire Dept. spokesman, on the passing of his legendary mom, former Aid. Anna Langford, first Black woman elected to the Chicago City ...
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Irrelation is a term used to describe the concept in which an individual or group functions within a social setting without a high level of relationship or connection with other members of that community. This study examined the social experiences of African American female students at a predominantly white institution finding that in several areas of student life African American female students persisted to graduation without necessarily establishing informal social connections within the university community.
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Imagine, A city without prejudice. A city without poverty. A city without slums. A city tailor-made for industry. A city with a booming economy. A bra...