pop- ulation, become infected with and die from HIV/AIDS more than any other racial or eth- nic group: 47 percent of the country's newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases in 2006 were among blacks. African Americans represent only 19 percent of the South's population, but more than half (58 ...
The public schools of the United States are not controlled by the national government nor by church authorities but by the local communities themselves, with state laws setting educational standards and ruling on compulsory attendance. By 1970, seventy-five per- cent were graduating from high school...