Posts Tagged ‘black women’
Prescription Drug Collections Deemed a Success
Prescription drug collections deemed a success
The county's drug collection boxes were placed at public buildings and police stations to provide residents with an option for the safe disposal of unwanted drugs in an effort to reduce access to addictive drugs in an environmentally safe manner. Law …
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Preppy Drug Bust High on Hype
The house at 560 Barrett Ave. in the bedroom community of Haverford, Pennsylvania, doesn't fit the profile of a drug lord's den. … While parents sought to provide education to their kids, these defendants sought to use the schools to create drug …
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Tennessee's bill isn't just anti-mother – it's anti-poor, anti-family, anti-doctor
Mothers of color and poor women stand to lose the most from a law that would turn pregnant drug users into criminals. … As a black woman and a mother working to support the human rights of other black women, women and girls of color, as well as poor …
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Three People Linked in Death by Heroin, a Longtime DC Drug Dealer and an … – Washington Post
Three people linked in death by heroin, a longtime DC drug dealer and an … – Washington Post
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Three people linked in death by heroin, a longtime DC drug dealer and an …
Washington Post Strangers to one another in life, they shared an addiction to heroin, fueled by the same D.C. drug dealer. And one by one, they died using a deadly substance that authorities say has permeated the East Coast, leaving a trail of grieving family members. Heroin dealer gets 35 years in prison after three customers die |
Christie speaks with compassion on drug addiction and treatment – CNN (blog)
Christie Speaks With Compassion on Drug Addiction and Treatment – CNN (Blog)
Christie speaks with compassion on drug addiction and treatment – CNN (blog)
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Christie speaks with compassion on drug addiction and treatment
CNN (blog) (CNN) – Republican Gov. Chris Christie teamed up with former Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevey to talk about drug addiction on Thursday, the same day Christie signed a bill aimed to improve treatment programs in New Jersey correctional facilities and … Christie Calls War On Drugs Ineffective, Announces Program To Send Some … Two Former New Jersey Governors Come Together to Help Drug Offenders Ex-NBA player: Re-entry tougher than serving time |
Groups urge Gov. Haslam to veto prenatal drug use bill – WSMV Nashville
Why Was Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Black Bird Sings Challenged or Banned?
Question by .sarah starlight.: why was Maya Angelou’s I know why the black bird sings challenged or banned?
when and where was it first banned or challenged.
Best answer:
Answer by Answerbot4000
Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” was challenged due to the controversial content including lesbianism, premarital cohabitation, pornography, and violence.
Answer by RetroRay
Listed below are the principal challenges to Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” the reasons for the challenges, and links to the two most active organizations challenging the book.
Before turning to this information, I should note that Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” took the literary world by storm when it was published in 1969. As it reached the top of best-seller lists, it made Angelou one of the most recognized black women in America. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual abuse, the autobiography is still widely read in high schools and colleges across the country. Three decades after it was published, readers continue to admire Angelou’s artistry, wit, and indomitable spirit.
White Women at Greater Breast Cancer Risk Than Blacks, South Asians: Study
White Women at Greater Breast Cancer Risk than Blacks, South Asians: Study
The team from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University found that breast cancer occurrence in South Asian and black women was 18 percent and 15 percent respectively. The researchers …. Jan 11, 2014 AM ESTAdults, who have suffered physical …
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Update your knowledge and keep patients safe from hep C
Injection drug use has the highest risk for HVC infection, and the rise of prescription drug abuse has impacted who participates in such behavior. There are "clusters of HCV among young nonurban adults injecting drugs, who often started injecting …
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50 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare
Dr. Frieden's physician specialties include internal medicine, infectious disease, public health and epidemiology. He joined the CDC in … Also in New York, he oversaw the largest community electronic health record project in the country, which …
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Why Are American Statistics So Negative When It Comes to Blacks?
Question by KRAW: Why are american statistics so negative when it comes to blacks?
I mean hopefully some of you know what I’m talking about, but I mean things like, highest drug use, health risks, relationship crisis/abuse, income rates, education and drop out rates etc. I could go on and on. I have finally came to notice that when it comes to these criteria blacks are all ways criticized so negatively. You see I am doing a report on spousal dating abuse for our “No place for Hate” group in our high school so since I have never experienced or know someone that has a history of abuse I started doing some big research. According to american “statistics” black women and men suffer the highest rate of domestic abuse also being that 85% of people in abusive relationships are women leaving the 15% to be men. Now this was only the beginning of my wondering, but school started t up even more. According to the Sex-ED teacher or the books “statistics” we are also more likely to get STD’s. To much information to type up, but I know the biggest one they have against is HIV/AIDS.
But It does not end here, we also have the highest high school dropout rate, in the years 2007-2008 the total dropout rate was 9% followed by hispanics with 7.24%, multiracial with 3.91%, whites with 2.16%, and lastly asian with 1.62%. The same range of ratings goes for Teen pregnancy rates, crime rates, employment, marriage, drug use, more likely to succeed?, even the most ridiculous one, which wasn’t so much a statistic, well not one at all, but more of a poll chosen by people: Results, 1. White 2. Asian 3. Latino/Hispanic 4. Indian 5. Black. I mean it wasn’t just one thing, but it was like diff rent peoples opinions everywhere. Now all I want to know is why the media has to make the perceptions of us so bad. It is not only annoying, judge mental, and arrogant, but for me it is a pretty touchy matter. Living in a world knowing that the world(not all) today has come to think that “Black, African, Brown” whatever you may call it has been taught to be “Bad”. Will those narrow minded people who think so negatively about people like myself ever overcome themselves? It’s just so aggravating because I only wish to live in a world od peace were we don’t have to worry about racism, hurting, and negative stereotypes. Anybody of color feel the way I feel?