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In light of their historical role in African American communities, faith-based organizations are uniquely positioned to offer substance use prevention programs to urban African American youth. This article describes the efforts of a university-based program to provide training and technical assistance to faith-based organizations in the development and implementation of substance use prevention activities. Occurring over a three-year period, the activities were assessed using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Results indicate that one-third of the faith-based participants had successfully implemented a substance use prevention program," another third were in the process of developing a program," and the final third had not begun to do so. Key characteristics associated with successful program development and implementation are discussed along with recommendations for future community efforts.
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As the number of free blacks grew, so did the size of the state’s African American community, which was centered in Philadelphia. It was in Philadelphia in 1787 that Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, the community’s most prominent religious leaders, organized the Free African Society, one of the first black mutual aid societies anywhere. It provided for the burial of the dead, care of the sick, and support of widows and orphans in the black community. Philadelphia’s Free African Society was part of an effort to organize free blacks that extended across the Mid-Atlantic States into New England. Fraternal organizations began to play a prominent role in the social life of the African American community. For instance, Absalom Jones was the first Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania.
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Race and Place: An African American Community the Jim Crow South recreates the contours of the African American community in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the start of this century. Narratives provide historical analysis as well as archival...(University of Virginia,supported byNational Endowment for the Humanities)
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African American communities have been bombarded with cigarette advertising. Since the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), the average youth in the United States is annually exposed to 559 tobacco ads, every adult female 617 advertisements, and every African American adult 892 ads. Expenditures for magazine advertising of mentholated cigarettes, popular with African Americans, increased from 13 percent of total ad expenditures in 1998 to 49 percent in 2005.12
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Now in its 6th edition, The U.S. African American Market provides a comprehensive profile of consumer expenditure patterns, shopping behavior, and attitudes towards food, health, entertainment, leisure, and technology. Strategies and opportunities for marketing to the African American community are ... covered. Priced at $3,500, this report can be purchased from Packaged Facts by clicking:
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The 2006 African American Leadership Summit, sponsored by the Democratic National Committee and the DNC's Black Caucus, will be held on September 22-24 in Detroit, Michigan. Leaders in the African American community will come together to discuss the Democratic message, getting out the vote, faith voter outreach, and other important topics heading into the November elections.
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