Ben Fletcher et les IWW sur les quais de Philadelphie. Un modèle de syndicalisme interracial au début du 20e siècle by Peter Cole

“…Now forgotten, Ben Fletcher ranks among the most important African Americans unionists and revolutionaries in U.S. history. …”
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‘ In Comes the New Black’: The Ghetto-Rural Black versus Blacksurbian Identities by Nkululeko Motha

“…This research contends that the inequalities of the urban space have created two groups of Black people: The Ghetto-Rural Black and the Blacksurbian especially in South African and American (for African Americans) urban space. This has created a hierarchy amongst Black people which has not been mitigated because of popular culture and how it influences the consciousness of Black people on race matters. …”
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Superstar of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program by Ted Greenwood

“…This program emerged from a recognition that African Americans, Hispanic Americans and American Indians were very underrepresented at all levels and in all aspects of SEM disciplines and that, although undergraduate education had received and continued to received much attention by universities, private funders and government agencies, there was still relatively little attention being paid to the graduate and especially the Ph.D. level. …”
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Variation in APOL1 Contributes to Ancestry-Level Differences in HDLc-Kidney Function Association by Amy Rebecca Bentley, Ayo P. Doumatey, Guanjie Chen, Hanxia Huang, Jie Zhou, Daniel Shriner, CongQing Jiang, Zhenjian Zhang, Guozheng Liu, Olufemi Fasanmade, Thomas Johnson, Johnnie Oli, Godfrey Okafor, Benjamin A. Eghan, Kofi Agyenim-Boateng, Jokotade Adeleye, Williams Balogun, Clement Adebamowo, Albert Amoah, Joseph Acheampong, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles N. Rotimi

“…We investigated the HDLc-eGFR association in nondiabetic Han Chinese (HC, n=1100), West Africans (WA, n=1497), and African Americans (AA, n=1539). There were significant differences by ancestry: HDLc was positively associated with eGFR in HC (β=0.13, P<0.0001), but negatively associated among African ancestry populations (WA: −0.19, P<0.0001; AA: −0.09, P=0.02). …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…William Wells Brown was the first African American to publish a novel: Clotel; or the president’s daughter. …”
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Pancreatic Function, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolism in Aging by Zhenwei Gong, Radhika H. Muzumdar

“…In certain ethnic groups, the proportion is even higher; almost 1 in 3 older Hispanics and African Americans and 3 out of 4 Pima Indian elders have diabetes. …”
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Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 Sequence Variation in Prostate Cancer by Takara A. Scott, Rebecca S. Arnold, John A. Petros

“…The high rate of COI mutations in African-Americans may account for some of the racial disparity observed in prostate cancer.…”
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Change in the Prevalence of Testing for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: 1999–2012 by Nicholas T. Vozoris, Jane Batt

“…There were also nonsignificant trends towards less self-reported LTBI testing in 2011-2012 versus 1999-2000 among household contacts of active TB cases, foreign-born individuals, and African Americans. Conclusions. Despite the introduction of IGRA, LTBI testing occurs less frequently in the US among vulnerable groups. …”
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Racial/Ethnic inequality &amp; contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Our analyses, which make use of multilevel modeling, reveal durable inequalities for African Americans and Hispanics across time and advantages for Non-Hispanic White and Asian-American applicants. …”
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Correlates of Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults with Diabetes by LaRita C. Jones, Olivio J. Clay, Fernando Ovalle, Andrea Cherrington, Michael Crowe

“…In bivariate analyses, African Americans, individuals with specific health issues (neuropathy, stroke, respiratory issues, arthritis, and cardiac issues), and those with higher levels of diabetes distress reported more depressive symptoms. …”
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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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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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Determinants of COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate in the United States: Spatial Analysis Over One Year of the Pandemic by Niranjan J. Kathe, Rajvi J. Wani

“…**Results:** The study found percent positive for COVID-19 (0.057% point), stringency index (0.014% point), percent diabetic (0.011% point), long-term care beds (log) (0.010% point), premature age-adjusted mortality (log) (0.702 % point), income inequality ratio (0.078% point), social association rate (log) (0.014% point), percent 65 years old and over (0.055% point), and percent African Americans (0.016% point) in a given county were positively associated with its COVID-19 CFR. …”
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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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Do Not Miss the Tumor: A Novel Presentation of Osteosarcoma by Michael DePalma, Sachin Gupta, Jie Nguyen, Divya Talwar, Alexandre Arkader, Lawrence Wells

“…The incidence rate of osteosarcoma has been reported as high as 5 to 7 per million among patients 19 years old or younger with males slightly more affected than females and African-Americans more than other racial groups. This report describes the case of a five-year-old African-American female who presented with an antalgic gait secondary to osteosarcoma in the left distal femur and follows her through treatment. …”
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Outcome for Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Not Dependent on Race/Ethnicity by Quyen D. Chu, Amanda E. Henderson, Fred Ampil, Benjamin D. L. Li

“…The 5-year overall survival was 77% for African-American women versus 72% for Caucasian women (𝑃=0.95). …”
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Acute Kidney Injury in a Case Series of Patients with Confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019): Role of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 and Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade by Avantika Chenna, Venu Madhav Konala, Subhasish Bose, Sasmit Roy, Bhaskar Reddy Madhira, Vijay Gayam, Srikanth Naramala, Sreedhar Adapa

“…We present the case series of four patients (2 men and 2 women; 1 Caucasian and 3 African Americans; two survived and two died) with confirmed COVID-19, presenting with respiratory symptoms and acute kidney injury, who have been on angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers. …”
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Mood Sensitivity to Seasonal Changes in African College Students Living in the Greater Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area by Alvaro Guzman, Kelly J. Rohan, Samina M. Yousufi, Minh-Chau Nguyen, Michael A. Jackson, Joseph J. Soriano, Teodor T. Postolache

“…The purpose of this study was to estimate the degree of seasonality and prevalence of winter- and summer-type seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in African immigrant college students in comparison with African American peers. A convenience sample of 246 African immigrants and 599 African Americans studying in Washington, D.C. completed the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ), which was used to calculate a global seasonality score (GSS) and to estimate the prevalence of winter- and summer-type SAD. …”
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Incidence and Impact of Ventilator Associated Multidrug Resistant Pneumonia in Patients with SARS-COV2 by Seife Yohannes, Zaki Ahmed, Rachel Schelling, Swaminathan Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan, Alexandra Pratt, Mathew P. Schreiber

“…The average age of the patients was 60.58% were males, 70% were African-Americans and two-thirds of patients had diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease. …”
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Proximal Sessile Serrated Adenomas Are More Prevalent in Caucasians, and Gastroenterologists Are Better Than Nongastroenterologists at Their Detection by Malav P. Parikh, Sujit Muthukuru, Yash Jobanputra, Kushal Naha, Niyati M. Gupta, Vaibhav Wadhwa, Rocio Lopez, Prashanthi N. Thota, Madhusudhan R. Sanaka

“…Detection rate was higher in Caucasians compared to African-Americans (AA) (3.7 ± 4.1 versus 0.96 ± 3.5; p<0.001). …”
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