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African-Americans

A Wisdom Archive on African-Americans

African-Americans

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - 1970s

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The United States, which had become an influential global power, experienced much of the transition. While the sixties saw social activism, society became more self-absorbed in the seventies. Analyst and writer Tom Wolfe epitomized this feeling in 1976, calling the seventies th ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Black Hebrew Israelites

Black Hebrew Israelites, African Hebrew Israelites, or simply Hebrew Israelites are groups of African-Americans situated mostly in the United States who claim to be descendants of the ancient Israelites. They claim that they and many Africans, and blacks in places like Brazil, Madagascar, and the Caribbean are also descended from the Israelites. Because the faith is only open to blacks, the group has been accused of racism and of being "in some ways mirror images of the Christian Identity groups"[1]. As well, because of ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Affirmative action

Affirmative action (U.S. English), or positive discrimination (British English), is a policy or a program promoting the representation in various systems of people of a group who have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society. This typically focuses on education, employment, health care, or social welfare. In employment, affirmative action may also be known as employment equity or preferential hiring. In this context affirmative action requires that institutions increa ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Communist Party USA

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. While the CPUSA played a significant role in organizing industrial unions and defending the rights of African-Americans in the 1930s and 1940s, it was effectively eliminated as a political force by McCarthyism and the Cold War. The Party still exists today, currently under the leadership of Sam Webb. Communist Party USA - The CPUSA Constitution and Program. According to t ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Cultural hegemony

Cultural hegemony is the concept that a diverse culture can be ruled or dominated by one group or class, that everyday practices and shared beliefs provide the foundation for complex systems of domination. The analysis of hegemony (or "rule") was formulated by Antonio Gramsci to explain why predicted communist revolutions had not occurred where they were most expected, in industrialized Europe. Marx and his followers had advanced the theory that the rise of industrial capitalism would create a huge working class and cyclical ec ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Upper Arlington Ohio

Upper Arlington is a suburban city located in Franklin County, Ohio, on the northwest side of the Columbus metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 33,686. Upper Arlington Ohio - Geography. Upper Arlington is located at 40°1'14" North, 83°3'59" West (40.020613, -83.066520)GR1. It is bordered on the west by the Scioto River (immediately across which is Hilliard), on the north and east by Columbus, and on the south by Marble Cliff and Grandview ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - W.E.B. DuBois

Image:WEB DuBois.jpg William Edward Burghardt DuBois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist, sociologist, historian, writer, editor, poet, freemason, and scholar. Although born in the United States, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963, at the age of 95. W.E.B. DuBois - Early life and education. DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Alfred and Mary DuBois. As a youth, his intellectual development was spurred through an interest in th ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Congress of Racial Equality

The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. CORE was founded in 1942, in Chicago, by Bernice Fisher & James R. Robinson, & a group of young activists: James L. Farmer, Jr., Joe Guinn, George Houser, & Homer Jack. Bayard Rustin, while not a father of the organization, was "an uncle to CORE," Farmer and Houser later said. CORE evolved out of the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation. All the founders, sa ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Curfew

A curfew can be one of the following: An order by the government for certain persons to return home before a certain time. It can either be to maintain public order (such as those after the 2003 North America blackout and 2005 civil unrest in France), or to suppress targeted groups (such as the one Adolf Hitler enacted on Jewish people in Nazi Germany). Curfews have long been directed at certain groups in many cities or states, such Japanese-American university students on the West Coast during World War II, African-Ameri ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Northeastern United States

The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States of America defined by the US Census Bureau. The Northeast is bordered to the north by Canada, to the west by the Midwest, to the south by the South, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Its largest city, New York City, is also the largest city and metropolitan area in the United States. As defined by the Census Bureau, the Northeast region of the United States covers nine states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - UPN

UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by CBS Corporation, which also owns the more widespread CBS network. Because of this dual corporate ownership, in several large American cities, the local CBS and UPN stations are operated as "duopolies." UPN - History. Paramount Pictures (the "P" in UPN) has played a pivotal role in the development of network television; it was a partner in the DuMont Television Network, and the P ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - X-Men

The X-Men Art by Salvador Larroca. (See also List of X-Men) (See also Ultimate X-Men) The X-Men are a team of comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they debuted in X-Men #1 from September 1963, the same month as the premiere of The Avengers. The X-Men franchise, with its original stories of youthful alienation in which teens literally are the freaks they often figuratively feel like, has grown to become one of the most popular comic books producing dozens of spin-off series over the years and turning some of ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Democratic Party United States

The Democratic Party, founded in 1792, is one of the two longest-standing political parties in the world (the other is the British Conservative Party, which is older if you consider its origins in the older Tory Party, which was founded in about 1680). The Party is one of two major parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Currently, the Democratic Party is the minority party in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. Democrats control 20 state legislatures, as do the Republicans. In 20 ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - When We Were Kings

When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film by Leon Gast and Vikram Jayanti about the famous Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaire on October 30, 1974 and the lead-up to the fight. It is widely regarded as perhaps the best documentary ever made about Ali, and successfully highlights the legendary boxer's trademark wit, intelligence, and charisma as wel ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - White people

White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though literally implying light-skinned, "white" has been used in different ways at different times and places. It is somewhat of a misnomer. While the extremes of human skin color range from pink to blue-black, the vast majority of people have a skin color which can be best described as some shade of brown. A common element to the various definitions of "White" today, is that the term refers to a person ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Bratz

Bratz is the name of a line of 9.5 inch dolls produced by MGA Entertainment, starting at the end of 2001. They are created in both sexes, "Bratz Boyz" having followed Bratz "girls" shortly after the girl dolls entered the toy market. Bratz - History. Bratz dolls are characterized by an oversized head with large eyes and lips, a small body and shoes that snap on and off. The original 8 characters were Yasmin (based on CEO Isaac Larian's own daughter, Jasmin), Sasha, Cloe and Jade. Over the course of t ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges ([ˈxɔɾ.xe ˈlwis ˈbɔɾ.xɛs]) (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, and man of letters. Jorge Luis Borges - Life. Jorge Luis Borges - Youth. Borges was born in Buenos Aires. His father, Jorge ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Black Power

Black Power has been described as an ideal which describes the aspiration of many people of varying degrees of African descent for recognition of their collective identity based on skin colour and what is perceived as a common black culture. The term describes a desire to take pride in the state of being Black. This concept has been compared to related ideologies, such as 'White Power' and 'White Pride'. Black Power - United States. The chant of "Black Power" was popularized, but not authored, in th ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Black nationalism

Black nationalism - Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey urged Africans "at home and abroad" to be proud of their race and preached "African Redemption". To this end he founded the Negro World newspaper to disseminate the UNIA's program, the Black Star Line in 1919 to provide steamship transportation, and the Negro Factories Corporation to encourage black economic independence. Garvey attracted thousands of supporters and claimed eleven million members for the UNIA. Garvey set the ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - 1960s

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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African-Americans: Encyclopedia - Youth ministry

A youth ministry is a Christian evangelical ministry intended to instruct and disciple youths in what it means to be a Christian, how to mature as a Christian and how to encourage others to claim Jesus as their Savior. This is accomplished through teaching, relationship building and mentoring. Youth ministries may vary widely depending on their denomination, size, liberal or conservative outlook and geographic location. The ministries themselves are almost always built on relationships between the youth minister and the student and th ...

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