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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills- on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line-are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The crime is the first reported murder in the area in decades, but the white authorities don't seem to have any interest in solving the case....
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ColoradoDepartment of Public Health and Environment, Health Statistics Section
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
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In 2002 and 2003, 823 women in Colorado participated in a special survey of African American/Black women who had recently given birth. African American/Black women who gave birth between July and December of 2002 were sent the survey. This report shows the results of this study.
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Blueprints promising programs fact sheet volume FS-BPP19
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Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Health watch volume no. 61
Publisher
Health Statistics Section, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or...