Word: african-american
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...well received by middle class whites, especially those in the largely undamaged Uptown neighborhood who are back working in the city. While they will turn out to vote on election day, no one is quite sure what will happen with the out-of-town vote, much of it African-American. This week, in fact, the courts in Louisiana are expected to rule on a request by several African-American state legislators-all Democrats-to force the release of a highly coveted FEMA list the Louisiana attorney general has with the locations of evacuees, their emails and phone numbers. "Nagin created...
...self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...nondiscriminatory with regard to gender, race, or socioeconomic status. And while this serves the benefit of breaking down the stereotype surrounding homosexual males, it also opens the door to public ignorance of who is the most at risk today. For instance, the Chicago Department of Public Health reported that African-American women accounted for almost 80 percent of newly diagnosed cases of HIV between 2002 and 2003, even though they made up only 37 percent of the female population. When asked how they would respond to the rise in African-American women contracting HIV during a 2004 Presidential debate, both...
Nidhi Khurana, 25, has dated Indian Americans, but for the past three years, she has been seeing an African-American man. "It definitely caused a rift with my parents," she says. "They were very confused." Her father Sunil, a gastroenterologist who came to the U.S. in 1977, admits that accepting the interracial romance "was hard. We are very active in the Indian community, [and] everybody watches you. Also, you grow up in a certain culture, and you expect that to continue...
...rarity of his news conferences, bridled at a reporter's suggestion that he was assuming "unchecked power" during wartime, and reminded everyone who was in charge when April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks asked a double-barreled question. Bush seems to like Ryan, who reaches a largely African-American audience and occasionally asks about the President's faith-based initiatives. "Thank you for violating the multiple-part question rule," Bush said playfully. "I didn't know there was a law on that," Ryan shot back. "There's not a law," Bush said, to rising laughter from his staff...