Getty Images ... women of African descent by Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center found that almost 48% of respondents had suffered hair loss on the crown or the top of the head - mostly ...

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The African American Studies program is an interdisciplinary program examining African life and culture, both on the African continent and the diaspora. As a student, you will learn about the African ...

Sister Thea Bowman was the first African-American woman to receive an honorary Doctorate in Religion from Boston College. Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., Ph.D., was born in the small rural town of Canton ...

After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and silence foreign propaganda about the treatment of the negro in America. He ordered ...

Police bodycam footage in the United States shows the fatal shooting of an unarmed African American woman during a call for help at her home in Springfield, Illinois. A police officer fired three ...

Why is there a disproportionate concentration of African American men in state and federal prisons? How are African American women portrayed in U.S. and world media? Find the answer to these and so ...

Inspired by the headline-dominating kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst (Sarah Gadon) in 1974, this atmospheric drama is a fictionalized re-imagining of her time in hiding, from the perspective ...

So far, 61 women have run for governor in 2018, nearly doubling the record of female candidates set in 1994, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers. Women have also set ...

An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection featuring a selection of films documenting the African American Experience — along with articles, digital shorts and original features exploring America’s ...

As a required course for AAS concentrators, this junior seminar introduces students to theories and methods of research design in African American Studies. Drawing on a wide-ranging methodological ...

The goofy-looking elephantnose fish “sees” its environment in three dimensions by creating a weak electric field and doing a little shimmy ...