Category: United States

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…

  • Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education Mixed Roots Stories 2015-02-02 Briellen Griffin, Doctoral Student of sociology in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies School of Education Loyola University Chicago It is my job to think about school. Everyday, I read, write, and speak about education. I ask, and often try to answer, the big…

  • ‘One Drop’ at Cambridge Rindge & Latin The Boston Globe 2015-02-03 Meredith Goldstein, Entertainment Reporter From left: Junot Díaz, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, and Kate Ellis. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe) Actor-producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brought her one-woman show, “One Drop of Love,” to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School on Friday night. The play,…

  • Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…

  • The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…

  • Evidence-based care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, study finds Stanford Medicine News Center 2015-01-26 Lisa Marie Potter Office of Communication & Public Affairs A new study finds that equitable delivery of evidence-based care eliminates the racial disparity in colon-cancer survival rates. For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented…

  • How Do Integrated Health Care Systems Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Colon Cancer? Journal of Clinical Oncology Published online: 2015-01-26 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.56.8642 Kim F. Rhoads, Colon and rectal surgeon, Colorectal surgeon, Surgical oncologist; Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford University School of Medicine Manali I. Patel,…

  • The Garifuna Exodus Latino USA 2015-01-23 Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer & Anchor Marlon Bishop, Producer For centuries, the Garifuna people — descendents of both Africans and indigenous Arawak people from the Caribbean — have lived peacefully in seaside towns on the North Coast of Honduras. There’s always been a trickle of migration from the community…

  • The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…