scholarly journals Healthy Living During the Pandemic and Beyond: African American Communities — Regaining Control of a Healthy Lifestyle Through Exercise

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Lampkin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
African American Communities

A Student-Led Pilot Project to Improve Calcium Intake and a Healthy Lifestyle in African American Communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Maxwell ◽  
Jennifer Lemacks ◽  
Catherine Coccia ◽  
Penny A. Ralston ◽  
Jasminka Z. Ilich
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Calcium Intake ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
African American Communities

Reducing Police Brutality in African American Communities: Potential Roles for Social Workers in Congregations

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Betty Wilson ◽  
Terry A. Wolfer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
African American Communities ◽  
White Congregations

In the last decade, there have been a shocking number of police killings of unarmed African Americans, and advancements in technology have made these incidents more visible to the general public. The increasing public awareness of police brutality in African American communities creates a critical and urgent need to understand and improve police-community relationships. Congregational social workers (and other social workers who are part of religious congregations) have a potentially significant role in addressing the problem of police brutality. This manuscript explores and describes possible contributions by social workers, with differential consideration for those in predominantly Black or White congregations.

scholarly journals Shift in racial communities impacted by COVID-19 in California

2020 ◽  
pp. jech-2020-215148
Author(s):  
Raphael E Cuomo
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Longitudinal Distribution ◽  
County Level ◽  
White American ◽  
First Case ◽  
Exponential Trend ◽  
African American Communities

IntroductionSince the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in California, the geospatial distribution of disease cases has fluctuated over time. Given documented racial disparities in other parts of the country, longitudinal convergence of COVID-19 rates around race groups warrants assessment.MethodsCounty-level cases for COVID-19 were collected from the Johns Hopkins University, and racial distributions were collected from the American Community Survey. Pearson’s correlation coefficients were computed for each day since COVID-19 was first reported in California, and the longitudinal distribution of each race-specific set of correlation coefficients was assessed for stationarity, linear trend and exponential trend.ResultsEarlier in the outbreak, the distribution of COVID-19 was most highly correlated with Asian American communities; after approximately 100 days, the distribution of COVID-19 most closely resembled that of African American communities. For every day in this dataset, the county-level distribution of COVID-19 was negatively correlated with the distribution of White American communities in California.DiscussionThe geospatial distribution of COVID-19 in California has increasingly resembled that of African American communities within the state. Further study should be conducted to characterise potentially disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across race groups.

scholarly journals Disease Messaging in Churches: Implications for Health in African-American Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1411-1425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brook E. Harmon ◽  
Marci Chock ◽  
Elizabeth Brantley ◽  
Michael D. Wirth ◽  
James R. Hébert
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Communities

Literacy in African American communities. J. L. Harris, A. G. Kamhi, and K. E. Pollock (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. 310.

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Temple Adger
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
African American Community ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Broad View ◽  
University Programs ◽  
African American Communities

The beauty of edited volumes is their potential to achieve synergism in bringing together diverse work on a significant topic – not just to create a coherent collection of research. Literacy in African American communities succeeds on all fronts. In presenting a broad view of literacy-related practices, the volume evokes a variable African American community that is invisible (or at least hazy) in many schools. Without deep knowledge of the linguistic, cultural, historical, and political contexts for literacy in the community, the schools and university programs that prepare professionals cannot hope to overcome the deficit perspective of cultural and linguistic differences that still drives assessment and instruction to a large degree.

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