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ETHIOPIA IS NOW: J. A. ROGERS AND THE RHETORIC OF BLACK ANTICOLONIALISM DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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The Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 inspired grass roots political activism in black America. To understand how this foreign policy issue became such a pressing domestic concern for black Americans, this essay analyzes an influential interpretation of the crisis, a pamphlet by J. A. Rogers entitled The Real Facts About Ethiopia. I argue that Rogers's text critiques the nature of race under colonialism by illustrating how state boundaries and racial categories are coordinate, strategic op...
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Nonprofit group encourages black Americans to trace heritage.(Local)
The Virginian Pilot
; The Associated Press ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY While their white counterparts often easily reach into their families' pasts, many black Americans assume their history beyond their slave ancestors is lost. The Slave Descendants Freedom Society wants to change that. The Carrollton nonprofit group is
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Misunderstandings persist between Africans and black Americans.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; DETROIT _ The customer at the downtown Detroit coffee shop wanted two scoops of ice cream, one chocolate and one vanilla, on the same cone. Since the tub of chocolate was closer, Ruth Abraha dipped into that first. The vanilla went on top. The customer, an African American, was livid. ``Where are
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A challenge to change; we as black Americans must not forget the past, but negative attitudes will only cloud our future.(My Turn)(Column)
Newsweek
; ... shot in an ambush on a Mississippi highway. This made national news. Walter Cronkite even reported that I'd been killed (a report ... Man's March to the Library. This, of course, made no national news but can be more significant to the lives of young blacks in the ...
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Black Americans, Africa and History: A Reassessment of the Pan-African and Identity Paradigms.
The Western Journal of Black Studies
; Abstract The paper critically examines two paradigms that are central to the Africa-Black America nexus: Pan-Africanism and Identity. It contends that the present surge of Pan-African consciousness and moves toward regenerating the Pan-African tradition have to be considered in the context of the
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Military Organizations: Best Practices and the Status of Black Americans
National Urban League. The State of Black America
; The purpose of this paper is to discuss the status of Black Americans, of African, European and Asian descent, within the military and identify the "best practices" which have enhanced the capacity of both the military as a whole and the people of color within it to perform to the best of their
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Black Americans have yet to reap benefits of county's CWP
Westside Gazette
; Black American contractors and those among the unemployed have found little more than another "field of dreams" in Miami Dade County's much-heralded Community Workforce Program. The Community Workforce Program was created through a county ordinance in Jan. 2003. The initiative was sponsored by
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It Is Time For Black Americans To Expand Concerns
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; Von Lipsey Philadelphia Tribune, The 10-18-1994 It Is Time For Black Americans To Expand Concerns. By Von Lipsey One consistent feature of our world in the 1990s is the tide of international crisis -- it floods our lives almost daily with haunting and pitiful media images. And while the
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GOOD NEWS FOR BLACK AMERICANS
ABC Good Morning America
; ... so many are reluctant to acknowledge some very real gains. That's the message of the current Newsweek cover story, The Good News About Black America, and Why Many Blacks Aren't Celebrating. Contributing editor Ellis Cose wrote this in-depth report, and he ...
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Black Americans battling AIDS from church pulpit
Oakland Tribune
; FOR BLACK AMERICANS, the battle against AIDS remains in full fury. And they're fighting back from behind the oldest venue for change in black American history -- the church pulpit. "As for our brothers and sisters with HIV/AIDS, Jesus does not discriminate by being exclusive," the Rev. Larry W.
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An uncertain future for black Americans.
The Futurist
; In the near future, rising numbers of black Americans will attain high-status occupations and political positions, but a sizable minority of blacks will remain impoverished. This mixed forecast comes from an authoritative National Research Council report on the changing status of black Americans
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