But despite the presence of few black students on campus, at that time there were no African-American residents at Vanderbilt Hospital, and it would be two more years, 1966, before Vanderbilt School of Medicine would admit its first African-American, Levi Watkins..…
Knowing these four biometric numbers can help prevent disease, diabetes, and stroke, three conditions that affect African-American women more, according to the .. around 7.6 percent of African-American women have disease, compared to 5.8 percent of white women, and 5.6..…
Whereas a white nationalist murdered nine African American worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on the evening of June 17, 2015, in the hopes of igniting a nationwide race war; . ..…
Go and try that on the African American community when a Caucasian police officer wrongfully shoots an innocent Black citizen. ... American non-Orthodox Jews now are living through a trauma. The Democrats into whom they invested everything have turned on them by walking..…
Holder was African American to hold the position of U.S attorney general.. ..…
“Think of American and French troops blown up in Beirut in 1983, or the ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident in Somalia in 1993. ..…
This was the culmination of African-American History Month and the presentation of the church's Memphis Living Legends program. . ... Woodson, historian, author, journalist and founder of Association for Study of African American Life and History.. ..…
Daley reduction idea removes that possibility for hundreds of African-American and Latino and women. The ward maps, based on the 2010 census, show that some African-American wards have fewer residents than many North Side counterparts. ..…
Black Enterprise is multimedia company. Since the 1970s, its Black Enterprise magazine has covered African-American businesses with readership of 3.7 million... ..…
While she did not secure the gubernatorial seat, she secured the role as African American to deliver the formal response to presidential address. ..…
by restricting certain rights to whites and denying them to African American and the indigenous, this cultivated sense of superiority, even among white workers, and feeling of cross-class solidarity between white workers and the elite. ... White Americans are told, implicitly..…
Any African-American who attempts to bring this experience into mainstream discourse is treated with hostility. . I have news for the Democratic Party: you want American young people (Black and white) to vote for your presidential candidate in 2020? ..…
In sense, the reality that Chicago will name African-American woman as its next mayor contradicts another reality the city's disregard for young black lives. ... In sense, the reality that Chicago will name African-American woman as its next mayor contradicts..…
Rad American Women A-Z and its sequel, Rad Women Worldwide, about Frida Kahlo, Malala Yousafzai, and Japanese-American Yuri Kochiyama, among others. She did represent Asian-American movement, and she worked with Puerto Rican communities and Black Panthers and did lot of..…
In November's elections, all three of the incumbent judges who lost were men, including Sean Delahanty. ..…
Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (2018) and co-editor of several books,..…
He implies to the public that I'm not present at press conference that he just did in the 30 minutes knowing that he's never had conversation with me about the legislation at all as I'm sitting bedside with my African American wife and five children... ..…
Women’s Suffrage, African American Enfranchisement and the 15th Amendment . ... After the advent of the African American led Civil Rights and Black Power campaigns between the 1950s through the 1970s, the women’s movement experienced a revival. ..…
Democrat, she was the African American elected to Texas Senate after Reconstruction, Southern African- American woman elected to United States House of Representatives. She was best known for eloquent opening statement at House Judiciary Committee hearings during the..…
On June 23, 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at a historic African-American church in Missouri. ... Well before June 2015, African-American civil rights activists had explained why responding to African-American concerns about..…
The House approved revised bill on anti-Semitism early Thursday evening with expanded focus on white supremacists, neo-Confederates, and violence against black and Muslim Americans, to the disappointment of many Republicans and Democrats alike. ..…