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Historically, African Americans have resided in nursing homes at about half the rate of White elders (Yeo, 1993). More recent evidence shows an increase in the use of nursing homes so that except for women over age 85, a higher percent of Black men and women over 65 are in nursing homes than Whites (Kramerow, Lentzer, Rooks, Weeks, & Saydah, 1999). (See Figure 1 in section VI.)
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AIDS has become a leading cause of death for African Americans. In 2002 (the most recent year for which data are available), HIV/AIDS was the second leading cause of death for all African Americans aged 35–44. In the same year, HIV/AIDS was the number 1 cause of death for African American women aged 25–34.
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Diabetes was an uncommon cause of death among African Americans at the turn of the century. By 1993... according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, death certificates listed diabetes as the fifth leading cause of death for African Americans aged 45 to 64, and the third leading cause of death for those aged 65 and older in 1990. Diabetes is more dangerous for African-American women, for whom it was the third leading cause of death for all ages in 1990.
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Bobbi Banks is currently one of the few African-American ADR Supervisors in feature films and one of the very few women Supervising Sound Editors in film and television. She is the first and only African-American to be voted in and currently serving on the board of directors for the Motion Picture Sound Editors Society. She has held this seat for the past 9 years. They are an organization much like the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences, only specializing in sound and music for film and television.
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Data from the 1998 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) show that more than one-third of African American adults (33.8%) reported no leisure-time physical activity with African American women more likely than men to be physically inactive (39.9% versus 25.9% respectively). (8)
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At the same time, more than 30 percent of African American families were headed by one or two full-time wage earners. This middle- and upper-middle-class segment of the nation's black population includes men and women who are second, third, or fourth generation college graduates—and who have managed to prosper within a system that, according to some observers, continues to breed legalized racism in both subtle and substantive ways. As models of community action and responsibility, these African American families have taken stock in an old African proverb: "It takes a whole tribe to raise one child."
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