African-Americans
Baroch, Andrew J. "10 Years after Million Man March, African-Americans return to Washington." VOA News. Retrieved November 13, 2005, from http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2005-10-14-voa7.cfm.
This article was making a connection between the century-old Million Man March and The "Millions More" March that was scheduled for October 15, 2005. Though the Million Man March was specifically organized for efforts to register African-Americans to vote in U.S. Elections and also to increase black involvement in volunteerism and community activism, the Millions More march this year was set in order to address the still existent inequalities that exist with regard to racial discrimination. In addition to racial discrimination, Ms. Wharton-Boyd, one of the many organizers of this march said, "Our issues fall into the area of health, social services, health, reparation, political stability, cultural development." Ms. Wharton-Boyd was also careful to remind readers that this event isn't a protest, but "a way to come together and bring skills together to help others."
2. Black PR Wire. (BPRW). "African-Americans are moving into the digital age with ease." Press Releases. Retrieved November 13, 2005, from http://www.blackprwire.com/display-news.asp?ID=2016.
This article discussed the growth of the internet in recent years. It was speculated in the early years of computers and the Internet that Blacks didn't or couldn't have equal access to these portions of technology. There were concerns that this would do even more to affect the ever-widening gap between the educational opportunities of Blacks vs. Whites. However, current studies and "according to Nielsen, NetRatings, as of 2003, more than 10 million African-Americans were going online to access information." Because though "whites continue to surpass the number of Blacks online," it seems that now they are surely at least "connecting" which was feared in the past.
3. Fishman, Henry J. "African-Americans Smoke more than Whites, study finds." ConsumerAffairs.com. Retrieved November 13, 2005, from http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/fishman/2005/smoking_trends.html
The health findings from this article were less than pleasing with regard to overall health and well-being of African-Americans. Though "white males are smoking less than they were ten years ago," it seems that "African-Americans have a long way to go." We...
Though African-Americans have stopped smoking at the same rate as Caucasian-Americans, too many African-Americans still smoke. It is an upsetting fact, especially because it seems that African-Americans and minorities in general are at a much higher risk for heart complications like stroke and diabetes.
4. Lanza, David. "CNN's Carol Lin and the French 'African-Americans.'" NewsBusters.org. Retrieved November 13, 2005, from http://newsbusters.org/node/2783.
This is another article that has to do with discrimination and racism at the root level is the very upsetting current happenings in France. The article comes as a criticism of CNN's correspondent Carol Lin, who called the Black Muslims involved in the riots in France "African-Americans" for the "lack of a better euphemism. Strangely enough, those who are rioting and being killed aren't African-American at all, but many of them French citizens of Tunisian descent. This article points out those inefficiencies of the "new media" which claims to be different than the "old media" which is stereotypical at best and contributing and fuelling the fire of the inequalities and frustrations of many of these youths and terrorists around the world at worst. Something must be done about this.
5. Maniace, Len. "Author explores slavery's lingering effects." The Journal News. Retrieved November 13, 2005, from http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS02/511130305/1018.
This article is about the lingering effects of slavery on the mentality and actions of African-Americans based on a book by Joy DeGruy Leary, an assistant professor at Portland State University's Graduate School of Social Work, entitled, "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome." Leary suggests in her book that because African-Americans have had to adapt to survive centuries of racial oppression that these adaptations linger in the behaviors. The criticisms of this book suggest that anyone who subscribes to the thesis posited in Leary's book is in fact working to enslave themselves. Another criticism suggests that Leary is irresponsible for positing that there is an excuse for unruliness and illegal behavior. Though Leary defends her position stating, "This is a book about healing, assessing the nature of the injury," Leary told the audience of roughly 250 people, "and that…
