Sleep as a Mediator in the Pathway Linking Environmental Factors to Hypertension: A Review of the Literature by Oluwaseun A. Akinseye, Stephen K. Williams, Azizi Seixas, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Julian Vallon, Ferdinand Zizi, Girardin Jean-Louis

“…The conceptual model proposed in this review offers opportunities to address healthcare disparities in hypertension among African Americans by highlighting the disparate impact that the predictors (environmental factors) and mediator (sleep) have on the African-American community. …”
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Promoting Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity in Overweight Minority Girls by Norma Olvera, Marilynn Graham, Jessica McLeod, Stephanie F. Kellam, Nancy F. Butte

“…Traditional fitness activities were identified as the most successful in eliciting MVPA in overweight Latina and African American girls.…”
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Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Barbados, West Indies by Anselm J. M. Hennis, Ian R. Hambleton, Suh-Yuh Wu, Desiree H.-A. Skeete, Barbara Nemesure, M. Cristina Leske

“…Comparable rates in African-American and White American men were 248.2 (95% CI: 246.0–250.5) and 158.0 (95% CI: 157.5–158.6) per 100,000, respectively. …”
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Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation for Refractory Glaucoma in a Tertiary Hospital in Brazil by Ricardo Yuji Abe, Carla Melo Tavares, Rui Barroso Schimiti, José Paulo Cabral Vasconcellos, Vital Paulino Costa

“…Multivariate analysis with generalized estimating equations revealed that African American ancestry and early hypertensive phase were risk factors for failure (P=0.001 and P=0.002, resp.). …”
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Two Sudden and Unexpected Deaths of Patients with Schizophrenia Associated with Intramuscular Injections of Antipsychotics and Practice Guidelines to Limit the Use of High Doses of... by Nasratullah Wahidi, Katie M. Johnson, Allen Brenzel, Jose de Leon

“…The first case was a 27-year-old African-American male with schizophrenia but no medical issues. …”
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COVID-19 and APOL-1 High-Risk Genotype-Associated Collapsing Glomerulonephritis by Sasmit Roy, Srikanth Kunaparaju, Narayana Murty Koduri, Vikram Sangani, Mytri Pokal, Venu Madhav Konala, Mamtha Balla, Sreedhar Adapa

“…The APOL-1 gene, associated with the African American population, has been increasingly recognized as a risk factor for FSGS affected with COVID-19. …”
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Elimination Kinetics of Ethanol in a 5-Week-Old Infant and a Literature Review of Infant Ethanol Pharmacokinetics by Jonathan B. Ford, Mac T. Wayment, Timothy E. Albertson, Kelly P. Owen, Joshua B. Radke, Mark E. Sutter

“…A previously healthy 5-week-old African-American male was brought to the ED with a decreased level of consciousness. …”
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Massive Leiomyomatous Uterine Proliferation Following Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Emmanuel J. Minja, Miguel Tan, Melissa J. Gibbs, Marwan M. Kazimi, Jonathan C. Hundley, Harrison S. Pollinger

“…Despite increasing number of African American females being evaluated for and undergoing kidney transplantation (KT), perioperative management guidelines for uterine fibroids currently do not exist. …”
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CRYβB2 alters cell adhesion to promote invasion in a triple-negative breast cancer cell line by Amr A. Waly, London Harper, Jodie M. Fleming, Lindsey M. Costantini

“…Abstract Objective African American women with breast cancer experience disproportionately poor survival outcomes, primarily due to the high prevalence of the deadliest subtype; triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Using a modified version of their pedagogy—one self-consciously infused with a racial sensibility—BBAs will be able to extend the pipeline to leadership, normally available to upper-income and even middle-income African American students, to low-income African American students. …”
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Du panafricanisme à la réafricanisation : formation et actualité du mouvement akan aux États-Unis by Pauline Guedj

“…In Cuba and in Brazil, the reafricanization of African American religions has been centered on the promotion of their Yoruba origins. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypokalemia in Pregnancy-Related Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Population Study by Chien-Wen Yang, Si Li, Yishan Dong

“…Notably, those who had hypokalemia were younger, of African American race, and of a low-income level. Congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, Cushing’s syndrome, GH, and hyperemesis gravidarum were found to be associated with hypokalemia during pregnancy.…”
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A Case Report of Sarcoidosis Mimicking Vertebral Metastasis by Anchalia Chandrakumaran, Henry R. Bateman, Rehan Qayyum

“…A 35-year-old African American male, previously healthy, presented with lower back and bilateral lower extremity pain associated with intermitted night sweats and weight loss. …”
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Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 Positive Critically Ill Children by Yudy Fonseca, MD, Alise Davies, PA, Stephanie Jarrin, MD, Liliana Simon, MD, Cortney Foster, DO, Sun Kai, Adnan Bhutta, MD

“…In the subgroup of the PE-positive patients, 55.1% were Black or African American in the COVID-positive group and 19% in the COVID-negative group (p < 0.001). …”
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Racial disparities in acute care utilization among individuals with myasthenia gravis by Cynthia Qi, Pushpa Narayanaswami, Ashley E. L. Anderson, Deborah Gelinas, Yuebing Li, Jeffrey T. Guptill, Dakshinamoorthy Amirthaganesan, Charlotte Ward, Rupesh Panchal, Amit Goyal, Glenn Phillips

“…Compared with patients identifying as Caucasian, those identifying as African American had 37% higher odds of having an emergency department visit in year 1, and those identifying as Hispanic had 70% increase in odds of having a hospitalization event in year 2 post-diagnosis. …”
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Coronary plaque characteristics quantified by artificial intelligence-enabled plaque analysis: Insights from a multi-ethnic asymptomatic US population by Guadalupe Flores Tomasino, Caroline Park, Kajetan Grodecki, Jolien Geers, Donghee Han, Andrew Lin, Keiichiro Kuronuma, Nipun Manral, Emily Xing, Heidi Gransar, Sebastien Cadet, Alan Rozanski, Piotr J. Slomka, Michelle Williams, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey

“…A total of 194 patients from ethnic minority groups (Asian, African American, and Hispanic) were matched by age, sex, and cardiovascular risk factors to 194 White patients. …”
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Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) : la mémoire de l’esclavage dans la conscience diasporique by Delphine Letort

“…Gerima pays little attention to historical details as he retraces the time journey of a young African-American woman, Mona, into the past of slavery during a visit of Cape Coast Castle. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Haile Gerima, an independent Ethiopian filmmaker who belonged to the LA Rebellion film movement, directed films which dealt with various aspects of the African American and black diasporic experience. Sankofa (1993) was his first important critical and commercial success. …”
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“Mes dernières volontés”: Testaments to the Life of Marie Couvent, a Former Slave in New Orleans by Elizabeth C. Neidenbach

“…In her last will and testament recorded on November 12, 1832, Marie Justine Cirnaire, Veuve Couvent claimed a lasting legacy as a patron of African American education in New Orleans when she declared that a school be established on her property. …”
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On Archival Research: Recovering and Rewriting History. The Case of Sarah Parker Remond by Sirpa Salenius

“…Sharing stories recovered from various archives, such as that of the African American abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, and doctor Sarah Remond, generates awareness of the ways in which experiences and the contribution of the marginalized, many of them women, may remain overshadowed by mainstream narratives. …”
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