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After my personal journey in life I would gladly see myself writing a piece a book narrating everything the full details of my life. How colorful it was revealing all…

Having negative emotions or feelings while entering a new cultural situation is a normal behavior most offenly feels by a person who cannot easily adjust on his or her new environment….

New Orleans became known for the impact it suffered when Hurricane Katrina reached landfall. In the same way, the world was never the same again after the 9/11 attack. Commentators…

A person who had a stroke will most likely experience speech disturbance, known as aphasia. The kind of aphasia that Mr. Jones may be suffering depends on the pattern of…

Jamaica has a proud history of struggle against discrimination and dictatorship and that spirit has defied the tests of time to stand proud till today. Jamaica is a democratic nation…

Like any skill, musical talent is a combination of natural ability, self-discipline, and time.  However, no amount of self-discipline and time can help if one is entirely tone deaf!  For…

Music is known to be one of the most important aspects of any culture around the world. Through the different beats and lyrical contents of each song, thoughts and emotions…

The oceans surrounding the African Continent remain as turbulent as ever. The new millennium has brought to this continent of many Nations, anything but peace. Illiteracy and poverty are dancing…

In a November 2006 National Geographic News one can find groundbreaking information on the dietary habit of ancient human ancestors. Lasers were used to vaporize tiny particles of tooth enamel…

In the 1930’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the New Deal which had three goals; relief, recovery and reform. The New Deal offered many programs to help Americans cope with the…

African-American music has continued to evolve in the face of diehard musical currents since the 1950s. Floyd (1995) is curious about the effect of political, social and artistic currents on…

Born sometime in the late 19th century to African American and Native American parents, Edmonia Lewis rose to success in Boston, Massachusetts as a sculptor specializing in abolitionist and Civil…

The role of African American actresses during the early years of the motion picture is perhaps one of the most interesting studies for many historians. This is because of the…

In Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934), Zora Neale Hurston portrays her protagonist, Reverend John Buddy Pearson, as a flawed Christian leader whose congregation in Sanford, Florida considers him to be both…

The Migration was the movement of approximately seven million Africans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930. Precise estimates of the…

Juvenile delinquency is the act when a person ranging from ages of 10 through 17 years commits crime in the society. Juvenile delinquency of the youth is the main product…

Through the years, hip hop has evolved not just as a popular music genre but as an emergent subculture in American society.  Although it may be considered by many as…

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) once said that “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”, in his famous Gettysburg Address during the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ in…

Almost two hundred years ago, the United States of America was very much different from the U.S.A. of the 21st century. The difference was not only in the infrastructure, the…

Strategies for African-American uplift throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries varied according to leaders’ personal styles and the social and political contexts in which they operated.  While some…