• This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean , just out from Monthly Review Press. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A recent study revealed that before 1581 there were no enslaved Africans brought to what was referred to as the "British Caribbean" and "Mainland North America. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But from 1641 to 1700, 15,000 Africans were brought to North America and 308,000 to the "British Caribbean. (monthlyreview.org)
  • AE occurs in the northern hemisphere, in parts of North America and Eurasia. (cdc.gov)
  • Sarah Gregory] Why is North America not included? (cdc.gov)
  • This is a good point at which to learn about the Spanish colonization of Latin America that preceded English colonization of the Eastern Seaboard and the Spanish colonization of the US Southwest. (carolhurst.com)
  • So this is not just common in Asia, but also in Africa and Latin America. (cdc.gov)
  • The African American Odyssey of John Kizell illustrates the life of Kizell, a West African enslaved in South Carolina that escaped and fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War. (ips-dc.org)
  • This in-depth biography-based in part on Kizell's own writings-illuminates the links between South Carolina and West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade's peak decades. (ips-dc.org)
  • My African American parents migrated from South Carolina at the turn of the century. (philaplace.org)
  • Visit the Hunt Cabin to learn about life in South Carolina from the European settlement to the Civil War. (clemson.edu)
  • Learn about the discovery and settlement for South Carolina from a unique perspective: a walk along the SCBG Natural Heritage Trail. (clemson.edu)
  • A few Europeans and African-Americans also joined the small-world settlement. (hmdb.org)
  • New Amsterdam's population grew to roughly 1,000 people by the 1650s, but strife between Europeans and local Native Americans-who resisted being taxed by the settlers-also escalated. (city-data.com)
  • Most of the Europeans countries that have been listed above have a business relationships with the Africans when they are transporting goods or exploiting slaves back then. (ipl.org)
  • The Europeans discovered the wealth in Africa such as plantation and mining. (ipl.org)
  • 8 Europeans generally enslaved some two million Africans during the seventeenth century, half of them from West Central Africa and most of the rest from the states abutting today's Ghana and the Bights of Benin and Biafra. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In this program, students will learn about the experiences of Native-Americans, African-Americans and Europeans and how they have been shaped by the land in which they lived. (clemson.edu)
  • Both whites and African Americans migrated there for a chance to buy land in the backcountry. (wikipedia.org)
  • The unemployment figure for Whites was 3.2%, closely mirroring a historical trend that generally has seen African Americans having an unemployment rate twice as high as Whites. (incharge.org)
  • In its 2018 financial capability report, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) said 27% of African Americans were "underwater'' in their mortgages (owing more on their mortgages than their homes were worth) compared to 7% of Whites. (incharge.org)
  • 68% of African Americans engage in expensive credit-card behaviors (paying the minimum, paying late fees, paying over-the-limit fees) compared to 36% of Whites. (incharge.org)
  • More African Americans (50%) than Whites (23%) are likely to utilize non-bank borrowing, such as payday loans. (incharge.org)
  • Only 43% of African Americans reported having good/very good credit, while the figure was 66% for Whites. (incharge.org)
  • While tens of thousands of northern whites were opposed to slavery, only a small minority of them believed in equal rights for African Americans. (massmoments.org)
  • For example, African Americans are twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with diabetes (7). (cdc.gov)
  • Like other Atlantic Creoles-persons of African descent whose names suggest that they had long experience in the western Atlantic world-Rodrigues was among those navigators, traders, pirates, and fishermen who traversed the Atlantic as free men, before and during the slavery era of the Americas. (oxfordaasc.com)
  • Knowledgeable in the many languages, laws, religions, and trading etiquettes of the larger Atlantic world, their presence suggests the porous character of racial lines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which allowed people of African descent to be employed and even rise to positions of authority in a world suffused with African slavery. (oxfordaasc.com)
  • 5 - The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862: By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln established the total abolition of slavery as a Union war aim and put African Americans on the road to citizenship. (nps.gov)
  • How American society remembers and teaches the horrors of slavery is crucial. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Besides that, it helps to know the differences of slavery in how closed that they work with The Africans and types of good that they sold like sugar cane or olives. (ipl.org)
  • This book also shows how slavery united the colonies and sparked the American Revolution. (ipl.org)
  • This form of slavery coexisted roughly with enslavement of Africans, leading to a catastrophic decline in the population of indigenes. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the early twentieth century, there were two kinds of homesteading initiatives in the Great Plains regions, also known as the American heartland. (homestead.org)
  • Reading for Reform rewrites the literary history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, putting social reform institutions at the center of literary and cultural analysis. (umn.edu)
  • Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million people were kidnapped from Africa and sent to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Roughly two to four million Native Americans also were enslaved and traded by European settlers in the Americas, English and Scots not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • CE occurs in parts of Africa, the Americas (including South America [foci within Peru]), Australia, and Eurasia, including in pastoral and rangeland areas, where transmission often is maintained by dog-sheep-dog cycles. (cdc.gov)
  • with regions that are covered under the vines of tropical and sub-tropical forests include Africa, the Americas (of course), and Asia. (cdc.gov)
  • TALLAHASSEE - A federal appeals court has put on hold a battle about a 2022 Florida law that restricts instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in schools, after attorneys said they were in settlement talks. (wmnf.org)
  • Coke and plaintiffs' attorneys announced Nov. 16, with great fanfare, that after months of negotiation they had agreed to a historic settlement. (bankrupt.com)
  • We are hopeful that the Supreme Court's review will result in a standard forbidding attorneys from misusing class-action settlements to selfishly put themselves and third parties ahead of their clients," Frank said Monday in response to the court's action. (latimes.com)
  • Some also have Native American ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lawmakers also approved a $3.4 billion payout to thousands of Native American landowners who, with their forebears, have been cheated out of oil and gas royalties since the late 19th century. (indianz.com)
  • Native American news, information and entertainment. (indianz.com)
  • Native American Conflict. (carolhurst.com)
  • Native American Population. (carolhurst.com)
  • What were the different religious viewpoints of various segments of the colonial population and the Native American population? (carolhurst.com)
  • Find out the concerns of the Native American peoples living in that area at the time. (carolhurst.com)
  • California s Fiscal Year 2020-21 State Budget directed $300 million in National Mortgage Settlement (NMS) funds to the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) for housing counseling and mortgage assistance. (ca.gov)
  • The U.S. Census Bureau said African American households in 2020 had a $45,870 annual median income, while White households were at $74,912. (incharge.org)
  • Based on 2020 UN data, the population of Africa is the 3rd in the world after South-East Asia and the Western Pacific. (who.int)
  • Indeed, the annual population growth in Africa is the highest in the world, 2.7% (varying between 0.8% in Lesotho and 3.7% in Niger) against 1.1% at global level for the year 2020. (who.int)
  • 7 Similarly, trade from Dutch forts in Africa amounted to about 700 of the enslaved yearly between 1600 and 1644 but would increase sixfold by the late 1660s. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Cape Town, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council Press. (ajtmh.org)
  • Labyrinthian is a good word to describe the tangle of explanations given by Senate members for failing again on Sept. 29 to fund the settlements of Pigford II and Cobell, the class action discrimination lawsuits filed by black and Indian farmers. (indianz.com)
  • The Senate has been treating these settlements like a badminton birdie since March, depriving thousands of black and Indian farmers the relief they are due from Pigford II ($1.15 billion) and Cobell ($2 billion). (indianz.com)
  • Seven black city firefighters passed over for promotion because they did not score high enough on a written exam will rise to captains' ranks and get cash payments if the Houston City Council approves a lawsuit settlement Wednesday. (arizona.edu)
  • In anticipation of the Commission's report, the document also briefly outlines issues, challenges and actions that countries should confront and address in order to improve the health status of populations in the WHO African Region. (who.int)
  • Nigeria and DR Congo only represent more than 45% of the populations of the West and Central Africa regional economic communities, while Ethiopia accounts for 20% of the population of the Southern and Eastern Africa. (who.int)
  • Through our strategic goals of academic excellence, student centeredness, and community engagement, we continue the long, strong, focused determination of the discipline of Black Studies to counter the narrative of white supremacy and African inferiority. (unomaha.edu)
  • The Equal Employment Opportunity has announced that it reached a $3.1 million settlement with PepsiCo over such a policy. (findlaw.com)
  • During the slave trade it was inhumane and violence, million of African people and children were taken away from their home to work in the new world. (ipl.org)
  • Atlanta Washington attorney Cyrus Mehri describes a $ 192 million race discrimination settlement with the Coca-Cola Co. as "breathtaking. (bankrupt.com)
  • It's even better than Texaco's 1997 $ 176 million settlement of a similar race discrimination suit, he said. (bankrupt.com)
  • Cargill Meat Solutions has reached a $2.24 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve charges that the company discriminated in its hiring practices based on race and sex, the government agency announced Wednesday. (naturalproductsinsider.com)
  • After carefully weighing all options, Cargill chose to avoid the cost, business interruptions and uncertainty created by lengthy litigation, and will pay $2.2 million into a settlement fund,' the company said in a press release. (naturalproductsinsider.com)
  • From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries nearly 13 million Africans were brutally snatched from their homelands, enslaved, and forced to toil for the greater good of European and Euro-American powers, London not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • From the advent of Columbus to the end of the nineteenth century, it is possible that five million indigenous Americans were enslaved. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The justices will review an $8-million settlement in a privacy suit against Google that was upheld last year by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as "fair, reasonable and adequate. (latimes.com)
  • The plaintiffs' lawyers said the $5.3-million portion of the settlement would have yielded each of the plaintiffs about 4 cents. (latimes.com)
  • For example, 8.6 million Americans report living with disabilities related to arthritis (4). (cdc.gov)
  • Though disease spread by these interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide-in virtually every meaning of the term, including volitional acts by invading settlers-is the proximate cause of this towering mountain of cadavers. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Originally an indentured servant of African descent, Casor lost a 1654 or 1655 court case convened to determine whether his contract had lapsed. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Kentucky African American and Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker suggests in his poem "Kentucke" that Kentuckys history overlooks those persons of African descent who made significant contributions. (uky.edu)
  • While reading about American history the thing that I found most appealing was the limited rights that women had during this era. (ipl.org)
  • Women were discriminated against and didn't play an important role in early American history. (ipl.org)
  • History that involves women has been developed throughout the centuries, constantly changing its goals and forms, increasing the popularity movement of the American women in the late 1800's. (ipl.org)
  • American history and the history of the "Old West" have often been portrayed as a story of white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men. (ipl.org)
  • At once richly archival and theoretically nuanced, Reading for Reform investigates a neglected period of U.S. literary history by exploring how settlement houses, working girls' clubs, and African American colleges influenced the era's fiction. (umn.edu)
  • Class-bridging reform institutions-the urban settlement house, working girls' club, and African American college-are rarely addressed in literary history. (umn.edu)
  • The Tulsa Race Massacre stands out as one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history-and, for decades, it remained one of the least known. (history.com)
  • The history of NYC is incomplete without teaching about Sandy Ground and the rich history of African Americans on Staten Island. (change.org)
  • We are demanding that Sandy Ground and the robust African American history of Staten Island be a required part of NYC DOE Curriculum for all students. (change.org)
  • His name graces a high school, a park, a harbor and the DuSable Museum of African American History. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Amid escalating clashes between protesters and police, discussing race-from the inequity embedded in American institutions to the United States' long, painful history of anti-black violence-is an essential step in sparking meaningful societal change. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • To support those struggling to begin these difficult conversations, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture recently launched a " Talking About Race " portal featuring "tools and guidance" for educators, parents, caregivers and other people committed to equity. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • From Smithsonian magazine articles on slavery's Trail of Tears and the disturbing resilience of scientific racism to the National Museum of American History's collection of Black History Month resources for educators and a Sidedoor podcast on the Tulsa Race Massacre, these 158 resources are designed to foster an equal society, encourage commitment to unbiased choices and promote antiracism in all aspects of life. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Slave trade has a great impact on American history. (ipl.org)
  • African Americans and Native Americans, the most persecuted and exploited groups in this nation's history, are on the verge of securing a small slice of justice. (indianz.com)
  • Kentucky African American history is as diverse, vibrant, and resilient as the state's general history. (uky.edu)
  • These biographies plus monographs on other special topics on Kentucky life have created a growing interest in Kentucky African American history. (uky.edu)
  • The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia supports this concept by providing its readers with a reference tool to grasp the diversity of Kentucky's culture and history. (uky.edu)
  • How African Heroic Epics Teach Us About History and Culture: A Case Study of Sundiata and Sarraounia - a talk by Mariam Konaté. (unomaha.edu)
  • Explore centuries of American history following in the footsteps of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois and more at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. (blueridgecountry.com)
  • Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But until recently, one of Florida's largest contributions to African-American history has gone largely unrecognized: its role in the original Underground Railroad. (visitflorida.com)
  • Despite increased access to education and other signs of upward mobility, the wealth and wage gaps Black and African Americans experience have not closed. (incharge.org)
  • A 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute - an independent think tank based in Washington - showed that the average wealth (savings, retirement, equity) for an African American family ($95,261) is one-seventh that of a White family ($678,737). (incharge.org)
  • The Federal Reserve of Boston, in cooperation with Duke University and The New School, published a comprehensive analysis of the African American Wealth Gap. (incharge.org)
  • African Americans in Tulsa pooled their resources and built wealth to foster successful businesses in the self-contained Greenwood neighborhood amid Jim Crow discrimination. (history.com)
  • The numbers are pretty clear and the problems are pretty pervasive, so there's work to be done,'' said Don Baylor Jr., a senior associate with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization that addressed debt reduction for African Americans through grants in seven Southern communities. (incharge.org)
  • Baylor said he considers the African American student loan problem to be a unique and special worry. (incharge.org)
  • The disparity between Black and White creates a cycle making it harder for African Americans and other minorities to gain even ground with White Americans. (incharge.org)
  • Investigators concluded that the practice disproportionately affected African-Americans and other minorities. (findlaw.com)
  • In 1718, French officials established rules to allow the importation of African slaves into the Biloxi area. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 1719, the first African slaves arrived. (wikipedia.org)
  • An early settlement of former slaves was established in Cherry County, Nebraska. (homestead.org)
  • Also, this can even proves that African have started becoming slaves due to the influence of the business relationships that they had with another countries. (ipl.org)
  • At the end of the war, Kizell was evacuated to Nova Scotia and later joined a pilgrimage of nearly twelve hundred former slaves to the new British settlement for free blacks in Sierra Leone. (ips-dc.org)
  • that made necessary the $1.25 billion settlement this year between the farmers and the Obama administration. (indianz.com)
  • After having accounted for a majority of the state's population since well before the Civil War and through the 1930s, today African Americans constitute approximately 37 percent of the state's population. (wikipedia.org)
  • His enlargement of the federal role in the settlement of the western states and territories can be loosely classified as an early version of the "New Deal" programs initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression in the 1930s. (nps.gov)
  • This Act was open to anyone who met very basic and progressive requirements, including women, immigrants, and, beginning in 1868, African Americans. (nps.gov)
  • As African Americans arrived in cities alongside immigrants arriving from Europe, they were treated very differently. (lu.se)
  • Levels of African American segregation rose to heights that European immigrants never experienced. (lu.se)
  • Reid's people cry foul, saying that Sen. Barrasso's issues had been resolved and he no longer objected to the settlements. (indianz.com)
  • A community-based study to examine the effect of a youth prevention intervention on young people aged 15- 24 in South Africa: results of the baseline survey. (ajtmh.org)
  • When army conscription was established in 1863 to fill dwindling Union ranks, riots broke out that eventually killed about 1,000 people, including many African Americans who were lynched. (city-data.com)
  • He spent decades battling European and African slave traders along the coast and urging his people to stop selling their own into foreign bondage. (ips-dc.org)
  • To the south were Jewish people and a few African Americans. (philaplace.org)
  • Spanish authorities had exploited African labor in the New World long before the British famously brought enslaved people to Virginia in 1619 . (visitflorida.com)
  • Then in 1738, Spanish Governor Manuel Montiano decreed the founding of Fort Mose (pronounced mo-ZAY) the first legally sanctioned settlement for formerly enslaved people in what is now the United States. (visitflorida.com)
  • In the Google case, he said the lawyers could have established a settlement fund and waited to see how many people would file a claim. (latimes.com)
  • Rather than compensate large numbers of people for injuries or losses, these settlements "transform the class action … into a fundraising opportunity for the class counsel's favorite charities. (latimes.com)
  • Prior to the 20th century, African Americans were not that segregated from other people in the cities. (lu.se)
  • Estimated at 1 120 161 000 people and growing continuously over the past ten years (26.9%), the population of the African Region represents 14.4% of the world population, estimated at 7 758 157 000 people. (who.int)
  • The late 1800s and early 1900s in the Mississippi Delta showed both frontier influence and actions directed at repressing African Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although enslaved, blacks traveled with the first settlers and assisted them in founding Boonesborough and other frontier settlements. (uky.edu)
  • A series of pivotal events marked the progress African American activists made toward achieving racial justice. (massmoments.org)
  • Last week, the Senate approved a settlement that would provide $1.15 billion to compensate black farmers who were denied U.S. government loans and assistance because of their race. (indianz.com)
  • Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president, talks with Rachel Maddow about the issues he believes will win him the support of African-American and Latino voters, from middle class economic reforms to a criminal justice overhaul. (msnbc.com)
  • State, Society, and Strategy of Economic Development: An Analysis and Critique of Development Theories in Africa - a lecture presented by Dr. Joseph Akpan, an instructor in the Department of Black Studies at UNO. (unomaha.edu)
  • Beset by two wars, an economic downturn, and contentious partisan bickering, the nation chose to select its first African-American president - a man with promises of change and a vision to make it happen. (cdc.gov)
  • However, demographic and economic projections give Africa a key role in globalization. (who.int)
  • The concept of demographic dividend supports the theory according to which African countries could experience an acceleration of economic growth, with the decline in fertility, which would lead to a change in the structure of the population, therefore the age pyramid. (who.int)
  • A federal judge must approve the settlements and determine that they are fair before any of the plaintiffs receives a penny. (indianz.com)
  • Instead, freedom seekers-many of whom had spent their whole lives on a plantation-navigated the unfamiliar terrain with help from Native Americans, in particular the Yamasee. (visitflorida.com)
  • African Americans in Mississippi or Black Mississippians are residents of the state of Mississippi who are of African American ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Historically in Mississippi, after Indian removal in the 1830s, the major groups were designated as black (African American), who were then mostly enslaved, and white (primarily European American). (wikipedia.org)
  • and Plymouth Settlement House and the Development of Black Louisville,1900-1930 [dissertation], by B. D. Berry. (uky.edu)
  • Between 1865 and 1920, African Americans founded dozens of Black townships and settlements in the region. (history.com)
  • Sandy Ground is the oldest continuously inhabited free Black settlement in the United States. (change.org)
  • The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992), The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2002), and the forthcoming Northern Kentucky Encyclopedia have entries on African Americans, but these volumes were not compiled to focus solely on the many topics and issues relative to black life in the bluegrass state. (uky.edu)
  • The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia will provide a comprehensive volume of research on the black experience in the Commonwealth. (uky.edu)
  • Since 1971, Black Studies' faculty and staff have focused our teaching, research, and service on the analysis, critique, and discussion of African continental and diasporic experiences, and the systems of oppression and resistance that characterize those experiences. (unomaha.edu)
  • African Personhood and the Provision of Services to the Black Community - a lecture presented by Dr. Colita Fairfax. (unomaha.edu)
  • African Americans are still trapped in declining inner-city neighbourhoods, giving the characteristic pattern of black cities and white suburbs. (lu.se)
  • Should the parties' settlement discussions no longer appear to be productive, any party may withdraw its consent to the stay by filing a notice with the court," the joint motion said. (wmnf.org)
  • The slave trade took away many productive workers from Africa which they are skilled in farming and other establishment. (ipl.org)
  • These groups have made valuable contributions to the development and settlement of the West. (ipl.org)
  • Critics of these settlements described them as a form of suspect collusion between plaintiffs' lawyers and corporate defendants, since both benefit by arranging a settlement. (latimes.com)
  • Lawyers cited the 19th-century case of a trust fund devoted to supporting the abolitionist movement that was used after the Civil War to provide aid to African Americans. (latimes.com)
  • During the first half of the 20th century, a total of nearly 400,000 African Americans left the state during the Great Migration, for opportunities in the North, Midwest and West. (wikipedia.org)
  • Less known but equally important is the active role he played as the architect of the modern American West. (nps.gov)
  • In a flurry of legislative activity in mid-1862, Congress passed and Lincoln signed four bills and issued one proclamation that forever changed the character of and opportunities in the American West. (nps.gov)
  • Lincoln's approval of these laws had important short and long term impacts on both the course of the Civil War and the future of the American West. (nps.gov)
  • Kidnapped from West Africa and brought to the U.S. on the Clotilda , she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860-more than 50 years after Congress had outlawed the import of enslaved labor. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Castle was built along the coast of West Africa by seven European nations. (ipl.org)
  • Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out in 162 settlement residents located in the Center-West region of Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • And in these regions, especially in West and Central Africa, during the dry season the rivers and lakes dry up. (cdc.gov)
  • African Americans were brought to Mississippi for cotton production during the slave trade. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this biography, Lowther discusses African complicity in the slave trade and examines how it may have contributed to Sierra Leone's latter-day struggles as an independent state. (ips-dc.org)
  • Research the various relationships between groups of settlers and the local Native Americans. (carolhurst.com)
  • Kizell also played a controversial role in the settlement of American blacks in what later became Liberia. (ips-dc.org)
  • The Senate also tinkered with the terms of this settlement, which now includes $1.5 billion for payments to individuals and roughly $1.9 billion for the government to buy heavily subdivided plots owned by individuals that will be turned over to the pertinent Indian tribes. (indianz.com)
  • Leading the challenge to these deals is Ted Frank, a Washington lawyer who regularly objects to class-action settlements. (latimes.com)
  • The same idea has been used in class-action settlements when it is not possible or practical to distribute the money as originally intended. (latimes.com)
  • They are "typical in the current wave of data-breach class-action settlements," he said. (latimes.com)
  • African Americans had relocated to the region after the Civil War as Oklahoma became known as a safe haven for African Americans. (history.com)
  • Addressing the social determinants of health is essential if the health targets set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are to be met in the African Region. (who.int)
  • Africa and to the Amazonian region of South America. (cdc.gov)
  • Five countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, DR Congo, South Africa and Tanzania) out of the 47 represent more than 45% of the population of the Region. (who.int)
  • According to an executive summary of the settlement agreement Story approved that was made public last month, the judge had expected both sides to submit the settlement for preliminary court approval by Nov. 26. (bankrupt.com)
  • For his new book, Denver author Adrian Miller identified at least 150 African-Americans who served the president -- as cooks, stewards and other culinary workers. (cpr.org)
  • Rep. Pelosi said improving infrastructure and the environment are matters of national security, economics, health and morality and that Americans need to be "good stewards of God's creation" for future generations.The House minority leader also said the country needs a green infrastructure bill, otherwise the nation "might as well go back to the '50s. (forwardtimes.com)
  • The 2004 "Kool Mixx" campaign both returned to Brown & Williamson's historic practice targeting young African-American males, and also exploited a musical genre with much more potential to bring Kool more universal appeal, as hip-hop music is increasingly popular among diverse audiences. (bmj.com)
  • In the 16th century, European continue to arrive in Africa. (ipl.org)
  • However, the editors will use their professional judgment in making the work one that encompasses the breadth and depth of the Kentucky African American cultural and historical experience. (uky.edu)
  • Lowther managed Africare's work in Southern Africa for approximately 30 years. (ips-dc.org)
  • Given what you now know and today's sensitivities what agreements would you try to work out with the Native Americans in that area. (carolhurst.com)
  • This document responds to the request made by ministers of health during the fifty-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa for an update regarding the Commission's work. (who.int)
  • The huge disparity in income and employment levels is the primary reason African American families struggle with debt. (incharge.org)
  • During the American Revolution, women were dependent on their husband. (ipl.org)
  • Disadvantaged communities, including African-American enclaves, must be a central focus for any future legislation to upgrade the nation's aged and deteriorating infrastructure, according to Gilbert G. Campbell III, co-founder and managing partner of Volt Energy, a minority-owned solar energy development firm based in Washington. (forwardtimes.com)
  • As Africa is the home of humanity, civilization, and society, we believe the knowledge of these is central to the understanding of the whole human experience. (unomaha.edu)
  • NE occurs in rural settlements near tropical forests in Central and South America. (cdc.gov)
  • Visiting the College Settlement building was a completely new experience for me. (philaplace.org)