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From December 26th to January 1st, African Americans observe Kwanzaa (which means "first fruits" in Swahili), a nonreligious holiday that celebrates family, culture, and ancestral ties. This week-long commemoration was instituted in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga to promote unity and pride among people of African descent.
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Every day, 37 million Americans wake up in poverty, including one out of every four African Americans. Edwards has set a goal of eliminating poverty within a generation by strengthening families, helping workers save and get ahead, reaching overlooked rural areas, and expecting people to help themselves by working whenever they are able. To reward work, he will create 1 million stepping stone jobs, raise the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2012, expand the earned income tax credit and strengthen labor laws to make it easier for workers to join a union. He will ... help working families build wealth by matching their savings through Work Bonds and Get Ahead tax credits and taking on abusive lenders. [Census Bureau, 2006]
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The Investing for Success partnership offers a series of free, three-hour workshops aimed at middle-income African Americans to advise them about the benefits of long-term investing. The next workshop will be held on Thursday, June 9, at 6 pm in Hartford, CT at Autorino Great Hall in The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Michelle Shell, Director - Asset Management Services at Fidelity Investments, will present the workshop. To reserve a space, people can preregister by calling the reservation line at 860/527-0147, Ext. 167. For those unable to attend a workshop, ICIEF offers an award-winning web course at http://www.icief.org/ that integrates all the workshop materials in an interactive, multimedia format.
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"African-Americans are at particularly high risk for stroke because of their increased risk for hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. Through the Power To End Stroke campaign people learn how to reduce these and other stroke risks," said Ralph Sacco, M.D., chair of the American Stroke Association's Advisory Committee.
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In Seattle-King County, as in the U.S. as a whole, epidemiological data indicate that HIV and AIDS are disproportionately affecting African Americans and foreign-born Black immigrants (hereafter referred to as Blacks). Overall, the percent of HIV/AIDS cases among people of color has risen steadily since the early years of the epidemic in King County, going from 13% of cases in 1984-86 to 26% in 1993-95 and 35% in 1999-2001. Learn more about the Seattle RARE Project.
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The widespread use of the African mask has been for centuries the focal point of initiation rites, funerals, dances, authority symbols, protection symbols, and spiritual embodiments among the African people. Each mask represents an expression or idea which is manifested into the final design. Sometimes a mask is deliberately carved out to look rough or fierce and at times "ugly." When an African mask is completed, it represents a unified idea which could be connected with the earth or with an unknown.
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