A Case of Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis Associated with Autoimmune Hepatitis by Hamoon Eshraghi, Aria Mahtabfar, Mohammad H. Dastjerdi

“…Case Report. A 48-year-old African American female with autoimmune hepatitis with possible overlap syndrome with primary sclerosing cholangitis presented with tearing, irritation, and injection of the left eye that was determined to be peripheral ulcerative keratitis. …”
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A Rare Case of Pure Primary Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Gallbladder by Rodney E. Shackelford, Ekin Ozluk, Jehan Abdulsattar, Terry C. Lairmore, Quyen Chu, Eric X. Wei

“…To our knowledge, we present the 16th case of a histologically pure LCNEC in a 62-year-old African American male who was successfully treated surgically. …”
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Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome Presenting as Bilateral Central Retinal Artery Occlusions by Steven S. Saraf, Yogin P. Patel, Ankit Desai, Uday R. Desai

“…A previously healthy 22-year-old African American woman presented with bilateral vision loss associated with headache. …”
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Isolated Left Bundle Branch Block in a Toddler by Hitesh Agrawal, Frank Zimmerman, Zahra Naheed

“…We report a 2-year-old, healthy African American female who was incidentally discovered to have isolated LBBB that has persisted in a follow-up of 3 years.…”
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Blacking Up : Une histoire du rock au prisme du blackface by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…Thus, White artists, such as Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, have worn a metaphorical blackface mask while “borrowing” signs from the African-American tradition. But some Black artists who were “rediscovered” in the 1960s (Blues Revival) also had to entertain their White audience with the thrill of a so-called “racial authenticity.”…”
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“Key to the highway”: blues records and the great migration by Louis Mazzari

“…The paper will explore blues music as an expression of the fluidity of African American society and culture during the Great Depression.While avoiding direct protest, blues singers and musicians—first women, later men—crafted an art form and employed the technology of the phonograph to encourage freedom of movement and choice. …”
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Nord et Sud dans la construction de l’identité noire américaine : réflexions sur le Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques by Anne Stefani

“…The present article examines the role played by the southern Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in the construction of a national African American identity. Through the example of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, it analyzes the Freedom Movement from a North/South perspective, showing that the Movement allowed the convergence and interaction of two specific black identities which had developed in the North and in the South in the wake of the Great Migration. …”
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Concurrent B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukemia and Monoclonal B Cell Lymphocytosis: A Case Report with Extensive Molecular Analysis by Maryam Mehdipour Dalivand, Parastou Tizro, Julie Partain, Anita Aggarwal, Jack Lichy, Francisco Mot Ara, Victor E. Nava

“…Here, we present two different B cell clones, MBL and B-ALL, cocirculating in a 78-year-old African American male. Detailed molecular characterization revealed an unusual MPL (T487I) point mutation and unmutated VH4-39. …”
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Miniplate-Aided Mandibular Dentition Distalization as a Camouflage Treatment of a Class III Malocclusion in an Adult by Zaki Hakami, Po Jung Chen, Ahmad Ahmida, Nandakumar Janakiraman, Flavio Uribe

“…This case report describes orthodontic camouflage treatment for a 32-year-old African American male patient with Class III malocclusion. …”
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Diffuse Gonococcal Infection (DGI) in a Patient with Treatment-Refractory Acetylcholine Receptor Antibody-Positive (AChR+) Generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gMG) Treated with Eculizum... by Nakul Katyal, Latika Nirola, Naureen Narula, Raghav Govindarajan

“…Here, we describe a case of DGI in a 32-year-old African American female patient with acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive (AChR+) generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), receiving eculizumab.…”
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Sarcoidosis Presenting as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Bilal Haider Lashari, Ahmad Raza, Vincent Chan, William Ward

“…We present the case of a 41-year-old African American female, who presented with ARDS. An extensive workup into the cause of her illness remained negative, and she subsequently succumbed to her illness. …”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…The series also takes sides against several forms of conservatism, brings a subtle support to the moral emancipation and empowerment of the African American and gay minorities who had achieved differing stages of mobilization in the 1960s. …”
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Anti-HPA-1b Mediated Posttransfusion Purpura: A Case Report by O. P. Arewa, S. Nahirniak, G. Clarke

“…We report a case of posttransfusion purpura in an African American. The patient was negative for HPA-1a antibodies, but anti-HPA-1b was identified with a platelet phenotype of HPA-1a/HPA-1a. …”
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Casting the George Floyd story in a broader context by Gerson Uaripi Tjihenuna

“… On 9 June 2020, viewers around the globe were glued to international TV networks to watch the live coverage of the funeral of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed by the police during an arrest in Minneapolis on May 25 2020. …”
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HbSC Disease and Spontaneous Epidural Hematoma with Kernohan’s Notch Phenomena by Meera Yogarajah, Chidozie Charles Agu, Bhradeev Sivasambu, Mark A. Mittler

“…Spontaneous (nontraumatic) acute epidural hematoma is a rare and poorly understood complication of sickle cell disease. A 19-year-old African American male with hemoglobin SC disease (HbSC) presented with generalized body aches and was managed for acute painful crisis. …”
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The Enigmatic Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A Case Report and Review by Hassan Tariq, Vinaya Gaduputi, Arsalan Rafiq, Roopalekha Shenoy

“…We report this case of a 33-year-old African American woman who presented to the clinic with preauricular and submandibular masses that she had noticed 6 weeks earlier. …”
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Catatonia as a Result of a Traumatic Brain Injury by Jessica Berthelot, Jacob Cambre, Madeline Erwin, Jennifer Phan

“…We discuss factors that led to the delay in diagnosis, including lack of training in recognition of catatonia, suspicion of feigned symptoms for secondary gain, and the implication of stigma in an African American young male arrested for a drug-related crime.…”
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Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in premature exits from permanent supportive housing among residents with substance use disorders by Talia J. Panadero, Sonya Gabrielian, Marissa J. Seamans, Lillian Gelberg, Jack Tsai, Taylor Harris

“…We analyzed negative PSH exits by HEVs with and without SUDs across racial/ethnic subgroups (i.e., African American/Black, Non-Hispanic White, Hispanic/Latino, and Other/Mixed [Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and mixed race/ethnicity]) in controlled models and accounting for competing risk of death. …”
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Surgical Periodontal Management of Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma: A Series of Three Cases by Karo Parsegian, Roger M. Arce, Nikola Angelov

“…The second case represented a rare case of POF appearing on the palatal aspect of the anterior maxilla of an African American male. The third case represented POF that developed on the mandible, and contrary to the first two cases, it was excised using a diode laser and not a scalpel blade. …”
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Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome by Luis W. Dominguez, Robert P. Doggette, Fernando Gonzalez-Ibarra, Imam H. Shaik, Amer K. Syed

“…A 46-year-old African-American male with past medical history significant for Kartagener’s syndrome, essential hypertension, and HIV presented with acute chest pain. …”
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