Exploring African American Male Youth’s Perceptions of Community Involvement Through 4-H Programs

Exploring Children's Perceptions of African American English

Exploring the role of community health workers in providing cancer navigation: perceptions of African American older adults.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain experiential data regarding African American older adult survivors' perceptions of and recommendations on the role of community health workers (CHWs) in providing a cancer navigation intervention. RESEARCH APPROACH Focus groups. SETTING Rural Virginia and urban Maryland. PARTICIPANTS 48 African American solid-tumor cancer survivors, aged 65 years or older, wit...

Teacher Perceptions of African-American Principal Leadership

Substance Use and the Number of Male Sexual Partners by African American and Puerto Rican Women

Background In the United States (US), there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections each year. Untreated STDs can lead to serious long-term adverse health consequences, especially for young women. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that undiagnosed and untreated STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the US each year to become infertile. This clearly is a...

Hurricane Katrina: African American Children’s Perceptions of Race, Class, and Government Involvement Amid a National Crisis

The devastation associated with Hurricane Katrina raised several issues related to race, class, and the government in the United States. We examined African American children’s (a) knowledge of demographic characteristics of the victims, (b) beliefs about the role of race and class biases in the delayed relief efforts, and (c) views of the role and effectiveness of the government in response to...