(redirected fromAfrican-americans) Thesaurus Medical African American alsoAf·ri·can-A·mer·i·can(ăf′rĭ-kən-ə-mĕr′ĭ-kən) n. A black American of African ancestry. Af′ri·can-A·mer′i·canadj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition....
African Americans - TV, Film, Representation: Nat King Cole was the first African American entertainer with a network television series (1956–57), but, despite the singer’s great talent, his variety show had trouble attracting sponsors. In the decades
The Marine Corps was an all-white military service when it was reestablished in 1798 and stayed that way until June 1, 1942, when Navy Secretary Frank Knox, bowing to the will of President Franklin Roosevelt, ordered that 1,000 African-Americans be enlisted in the Navy, Marine Corps, and...
The logistic regression model suggested that respondents who have ever had a chronic disease were more likely to report depression than those who have not ever had a chronic disease. Caribbean Blacks were more likely to report depression compared to African Americans. Additionally, respondents who ...
African American history is concerned with the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 - 1865. Blacks from the Caribbean are also considered African American due to their co...
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Shortly after theAmerican Revolution, calls to abolish slavery and the slave trade generated increasingly widespread support. Led by Quakers and liberatedAfrican-Americans, the anti-slavery movement swayed some northern state legislatures to grant immediate release to soldier slaves and gradual emancipation...
African Americans Ebonics woke See all related content Ask the Chatbot a Question African American English (AAE), alanguagevariety that has also been identified at different times in dialectology and literary studies as Black English, blackdialect, and Negro (nonstandard) English. Since the late 19...
I was delighted to find that others have already paved the way for African Americans to follow. We can learn much from the African and Caribbean communities in London, Paris, Amsterdam, and beyond. Now is the time to go: With the internationalization of the American economy, it is ...
Well-publicized visits from African heads of state and the appointment of African Americans to diplomatic posts provided the symbolic politics the situation required. The United States would also realize the additional benefit of encouraging ostensibly nonaligned African states to view the West more...