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In 2004, an estimated 3.5 million African Americans currently had asthma. African Americans have the highest asthma prevalence of any racial/ethic group. The current asthma prevalence rate among Blacks was 36 percent higher than that for Whites.3
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PROVO, Utah, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- For African Americans, tracking down ancestors can present a unique set of challenges -- few other groups face as many obstacles when it comes to family history research. Often, a lack of credible documentation can make the journey both difficult and time-consuming. Fortunately, there is a vast collection of data available online. In celebration of Black History Month, Ancestry.com, which hosts the largest online collection of family history records, has launched an all new African American Research Center at http://www.ancestry.com/aahistory. Throughout the month of February, Ancestry.com will be offering free access to this vast collection of historical records detailing the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans.
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On February 19, 1934, a group of Communists involved in the League of Struggle for Negro Rights decided that discrimination toward African Americans and Filipinos in Seattle must come to an end. Led by a young, African American,Revels Cayton, the group entered a Seattle City Council meeting demanding laws that would make discrimination based on race illegal. This essay examines the
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Tobacco use, which is related to heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the three leading causes of premature death among African Americans, claims the lives of roughly 47,000 African Americans each year. It is linked to 63% of cancer related deaths among African American men in the United States, the highest cancer mortality rate of any gender-ethnic group.
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To be African American, some argue that an individual would have to be born in Africa. The term ... has been interpreted to include non-black immigrants from Africa to the United States, such as white South Africans or Arabs from Africa, although these groups generally do not refer to themselves as African American, nor are they generally regarded as such in the United States. (Teresa Heinz Kerry, who was born in present-day Mozambique to Portuguese parents, is not referred to as African American. Senator Barack Obama, who has one white American parent and one black African parent, generally is, although some people question this classification. Forensic anthropologist Clea Koff, who also has one African parent, is in the same category as Obama, but is also called racially mixed.)
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When it came to religion, African immigrants to Latin America and the Caribbean not only retained some of their original beliefs but ... borrowed and modified religious rituals from the various European Christian churches they encountered there. Religious affiliation, however, is no longer restricted by race or color. A number of Christian groups such as the Seventh-day Adventists, Pentecostals, and Churches of God are predominantly black. On the other hand, religious sects of African origin—such as vodun in Haiti (see Voodoo); Shango in Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Brazil; Santería in Cuba and Puerto Rico; Kumina, Myal, Revivalist, and Ras Tafari in Jamaica; and Umbanda, Macounda, and others in Brazil—are no longer only black.
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