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Articles
1-95 out of 95 article(s)
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| Exercising just one extra hour a week is extremely beneficial in lowering women's LDL cholesterol (the unhealthy kind), especially Black women. |
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Nov 1, 2009 |
164 |
| Eroticism, spirituality, and resistance in Black women's writings. |
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Brief article |
Nov 1, 2009 |
205 |
| Black women in new South literature and culture. |
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Brief article |
Nov 1, 2009 |
146 |
| The black woman and the beauty myth. |
Djanie, Akua |
Viewpoint essay |
Oct 1, 2009 |
1666 |
| Entrepreneurial spotlight: black women in business brainstorm. |
Michener, Tara |
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Sep 1, 2009 |
317 |
| Fewer highly educated black women getting married, having kids. |
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Aug 9, 2009 |
370 |
| Boycotts, buses, and passes; Black women's resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa. |
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Book review |
Aug 1, 2009 |
151 |
| Black Women Elected Officials and Leaders to Convene in Chicago. |
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Jun 8, 2009 |
382 |
| Black women more affected by domestic violence. |
Brown, Carolyn M. |
Brief article |
May 1, 2009 |
151 |
| Building a community of leaders. |
Lott, Annya M. |
Brief article |
May 1, 2009 |
191 |
| Despite years of struggle by women's health activists against unnecessary hysterectomy, Black women still have higher hysterectomy rates than White women. |
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May 1, 2009 |
148 |
| New African Woman is born: due to popular demand, New African Woman, which has been running as a regular supplement in New African since July 2008, has this month been launched as a stand-alone 100-page quarterly magazine in both English and French, the first time ever that a magazine has been launched simultaneously in the two languages, and to cover the whole continent. |
Okafor, Ogo |
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May 1, 2009 |
417 |
| Black women three times more likely to develop aggressive breast cancer. |
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Mar 25, 2009 |
220 |
| Aetna's Bongi Magubane Named to Top Black Women Executives in Business List. |
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Mar 11, 2009 |
326 |
| Ageless the best secret is your attitude. |
Jere-Malanda, Regina |
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Mar 1, 2009 |
1727 |
| Black Women Say Advertisers Don't Know How to Talk to Them, According to Lattimer Communications Study. |
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Feb 10, 2009 |
560 |
| The look of love. |
Ndibo, Judy Amunga |
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Feb 1, 2009 |
771 |
| U.S. black women shrinking, data show. |
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Dec 26, 2008 |
713 |
| Abortion and women of color: the bigger picture. |
Cohen, Susan A. |
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Dec 22, 2008 |
2453 |
| Black women 'now earn more than white'. |
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Nov 17, 2008 |
222 |
| Say no to sexual objectification full stop! It is not positive stories of black women from the past and present that need to be told. Robert Cooper asks New African Women to champion the issue of self-worth and to help stop the oversexualisation of black women. "The world should say full stop to sexually objectifying our sisters," he writes. |
Cooper, Robert |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
1200 |
| Towards an Aesthetic of Transgression: Ann Allen Shockley's "Loving Her" and the Politics of Same-Gender Loving. |
Melancon, Trimiko C. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2008 |
9910 |
| The New Negro Flaneuse in Nella Larsen's "Quicksand". |
Scheper, Jeanne |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2008 |
12854 |
| Women's Spiritual Geographies of the African Diaspora: Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow". |
Smith, Carissa Turner |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2008 |
11024 |
| Femme Noire [Black Woman]. |
Senghor, Leopold Sedar |
Poem |
Sep 22, 2008 |
265 |
| Clean. |
Miller, Denise |
Poem |
Sep 22, 2008 |
133 |
| Who is an "ideal" African Woman? What is "ideal" African Beauty? |
Jere-Malanda, Regina |
Editorial |
Aug 1, 2008 |
836 |
| In Vogue token blackness?; As the special "Black issue Vogue" hit the newsstands amid massive excitement, Khadija Sharife argues that what Italian Vogue has done "is the worst form of tokenism-an instrument used to use minorities, to catalyze controversy but not necessarily change anything". |
Sharife, Khadija |
Critical essay |
Aug 1, 2008 |
1844 |
| Ethnic drive for success; CAMPAIGN: Push for more black women entrepeneurs. |
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Jul 29, 2008 |
274 |
| Black is beautiful, even Vogue admits. |
Mansa, Abena |
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Jul 1, 2008 |
1633 |
| Gender and tabloids in Southern Africa - A study by gender links. |
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Jun 1, 2008 |
1159 |
| Celebrate 25 years of promoting Black Women's Health. |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
166 |
| Heide Gardner Honored by the Network Journal as One of Its '25 Influential Black Women in Business'. |
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Feb 15, 2008 |
303 |
| Your LIFE: Disease 'hits black women younger' HEALTH. |
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Jan 17, 2008 |
330 |
| Cancer hits black women earlier. |
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Jan 17, 2008 |
154 |
| Pregnancy intentions and happiness among pregnant black women at high risk for adverse infant health outcomes. |
Blake, Susan M.; Kiely, Michele; Gard, Charlotte C.; El-Mohandes, Ayman A.E.; El-Khorazaty, M. Nabil |
Author abstract |
Dec 1, 2007 |
10697 |
| Queen Latifah, unruly women, and the bodies of romantic comedy. |
Mizejewski, Linda |
Critical essay |
Dec 1, 2007 |
10631 |
| Zambian beauties lead the way: African women are advancing rapidly in high-profile activities such as television presentation and beauty pageants ... and Zambians are in the vanguard of that advance, reports Clayton Goodwin. |
Goodwin, Clayton |
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Nov 1, 2007 |
1175 |
| Tribute to African women in finance. |
Versi, Anver |
Editorial |
Oct 1, 2007 |
751 |
| Women power in African finance. |
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Oct 1, 2007 |
5694 |
| The Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers. |
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Aug 15, 2007 |
145 |
| Healthier future prescribed for black women at summit; Escalating rates of diabetes, heart attacks examined at Clark. |
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May 16, 2007 |
506 |
| Neighborhood impacts black women's health. |
Aria, Donya C. |
Brief article |
May 1, 2007 |
114 |
| ESSENCE Magazine Names Prudential Financial to List of 25 Great Places to Work for Black Women. |
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Apr 10, 2007 |
288 |
| ESSENCE Magazine Names Aetna to List of 25 Great Places to Work for Black Women. |
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Mar 21, 2007 |
466 |
| Black women at risk of pregnancy problems. |
Arias, Donya C. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2007 |
107 |
| When the Duke lacrosse story broke, it immediately became a rallying cry for "social justice.". |
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Brief article |
Feb 12, 2007 |
229 |
| Support for business women. |
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Brief article |
Feb 1, 2007 |
133 |
| The hair dilemma: conform to mainstream expectations or emphasize racial identity. |
Dumas, Tracy L. |
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Jan 1, 2007 |
7549 |
| Boston tackles breast cancer among city's black women. |
Murdock, Russell |
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Dec 1, 2006 |
594 |
| Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association. |
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Oct 1, 2006 |
19 |
| The Gwen S. Cherry Black Women. |
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Brief article |
Sep 15, 2006 |
282 |
| Another World is Possible! |
Tibinyane, Natasha |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
684 |
| Breast cancer deaths higher for Black women. |
Hernandez, Daisy |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
104 |
| Street strollers: grounding the theory of black women intellectuals. |
Taylor, Ula |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
6987 |
| Living in a poor neighborhood is a risk factor for overdue pap screening in black women. |
Doskoch, P. |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
952 |
| Black women more likely to smoke to reduce tension rather than weight. |
Kirn, Timothy F. |
Brief article |
Apr 1, 2006 |
267 |
| Colonial policies and women's participation in public life: the case of British Southern Cameroons. |
Adams, Melinda |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
10706 |
| Working hard for the money: experts cite black women putting in more hours than their counterparts. |
Porter, Brenda |
Brief Article |
Feb 1, 2006 |
311 |
| Hardcore desire: Black women laboring in porn--is it just another job? |
Miller-Young, Mireille |
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Dec 22, 2005 |
3344 |
| BIBA awards. |
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Brief Article |
Dec 1, 2005 |
203 |
| Notes to "Poem for a Black girl". |
Bayne, Clarence |
Brief Article |
Sep 22, 2005 |
349 |
| Keep your hand on the plow--hold on: black Baptist women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: as I look about me today in this veiled world of mine, despite the noisier and more spectacular advance of my brothers, I instinctively feel and know that it is the five million women of my race who really count. |
Smoot, Pamela A. |
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Jun 22, 2005 |
4536 |
| Black Baptist women and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1963: historians and journalists during and immediately after the Civil Rights Movement emphasized the role of religion in the movement. They showed how the black church and its leaders provided the charisma, finance, inspiration, spiritual nurture, and the foot soldiers that made the movement successful. |
Fallin, Wilson, Jr. |
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Jun 22, 2005 |
3135 |
| Black girls most likely to be obese. |
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Brief Article |
Feb 1, 2005 |
184 |
| A guardian of history: this archivist's job is steeped in black genealogy. |
Drakes, Sean |
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Nov 1, 2004 |
605 |
| A woman's rite: they call it 'something of which you should never speak', though many African countries have now explicitly outlawed the practice. Not so in the Gambia, Nikki van der Gaag discovers. |
van der Gaag, Nikki |
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Nov 1, 2004 |
1144 |
| What's love got to do? (& other stories of black women's sexualities)*. |
Mitchem, Stephanie Y. |
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Sep 22, 2004 |
4912 |
| Looking back: Black nurses struggle for admission to professional schools. |
Burnette, Georgia |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
5174 |
| What is normal gestation? |
Hollander, Dore |
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May 1, 2004 |
228 |
| Does race figure in maternal and infant death? |
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Mar 22, 2004 |
440 |
| Racial justice and WILPF. |
Spears, Evelyn |
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Mar 22, 2004 |
1574 |
| Alopecia nearly epidemic among black women. |
Lohr, Elizabeth |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
664 |
| Black women in Uruguay: ethnic differences. |
Malvasio, Gabriela |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
1859 |
| In a different chord: interpreting the relations among black female sexuality, agency, and the blues. |
Lewis, Nghana tamu |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
6170 |
| A man is not a plan: our special report shows why it pays for black women to master their finances. |
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Brief Article |
Oct 1, 2003 |
321 |
| Suspense sells: a Black-owned bookstore in Pennsylvania targets readers of mysteries, detective stories and crime fiction. (market buzz). |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
Company Profile |
May 1, 2003 |
736 |
| SA's first all-black, all-women oil company. (Business Briefs). |
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May 1, 2003 |
391 |
| Racial disparities in osteoporosis prevention in a managed care population. (Original Article). |
Saag, Kenneth G. |
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May 1, 2003 |
5439 |
| Black women and menopause. (FYI). |
Hollander, Dore |
Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2003 |
215 |
| Fashion models before Naomi. (The Arts). |
Goodwin, Clayton |
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Feb 1, 2003 |
1247 |
| Saartjie Baartman comes home at last: "This young woman was treated as if she was something monstrous. But where in this affair is the true monstrosity?". (Feature: South Africa). |
Lokongo, Antoine |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2002 |
750 |
| Who is, or has, the problem? If you have to teach someone that their existence is a bad, terrible thing, then who is, or has, the problem? (Not in Black or White). |
Orakwue, Stella |
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Apr 1, 2002 |
1385 |
| Discriminacion y fortaleza: La Mujer negra en Chambacu, corral de negros de Manuel Zapata Olivella. (Spanish Language, Literature, & Culture). |
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Brief Article |
Mar 22, 2002 |
160 |
| In Praise of Black Women: A magnificent tribute to black women from the ancient past to the present. (The Gallery). |
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Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2002 |
459 |
| Web wonders. (book bytes: SistaPower). |
Estrada, Sheryl |
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Mar 1, 2002 |
1211 |
| Africa's Miss World: Proud of the girl! (The Gallery). |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2002 |
471 |
| Another African gunned down by police. (Senegal/Germany). |
Lamour, Patricia |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
813 |
| The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance (WCAR); what gains for African women? |
Mukasa, Sarah |
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Jul 1, 2001 |
2403 |
| Because I am an African woman. |
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Jul 1, 2001 |
888 |
| Body talk. (First Word). |
Fabius, Carine |
Transcript |
Jun 22, 2001 |
6010 |
| Hysteria and trauma in Pauline Hopkins' 'Of One Blood, Or, the Hidden Self.'. |
Horvitz, Deborah |
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Jun 22, 1999 |
9227 |
| Self-delusion and self-sacrifice in Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand.' |
Monda, Kimberly |
Bibliography |
Mar 22, 1997 |
9899 |
| "White Apron - Black Hands." (University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia) |
Green, Charles |
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Dec 1, 1994 |
462 |
| Boyz N St. John's. |
Anderson, Lorrin |
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Aug 26, 1991 |
1316 |
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