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African American Teenage Pregnancy
MediaRights: issue: teen pregnancy
Spaci Found 76 resources on teen pregnancy in film ... new documentary on the struggle of three generations of African American women to free themselves . ...
www.mediarights.org/issue/teen_
African-American Adolescents: Living in a High-Risk Population
Spaci African-American teens accounted for 23 percent of teen births in 1995. ... rate of all states for teenage pregnancy among African Americans ages 15 to 19; ...
www.idph.state.il.us/public/
Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Further Reading - Causes and Predictors ...
Spaci The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. ... Although African-American teens did not show a relationship between dropping out and the risk of ...
www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/
America's Health Rankings - 2005 Edition
Spaci And even with recent progress, African American teens still have the highest teen pregnancy rate. Make the connection between teen pregnancy and poverty. ...
www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/
WOMEN OF COLOR AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
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Class plays more of a determining role in teen pregnancy. rates than does race, and this disproportionately affects African American female teens because of ...
www.feministcampus.org/fmla/printable-materials/
N C H S - 2003 Fact Sheet - Teen Birth Rate Continues to Decline ...
Spaci Teen Birth Rate Continues to Decline; African-American Teens Show Sharpest Drop ... bullet graphic Just over 1 in 10 women smoked during pregnancy in 2002, ...
www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/03facts/teenbirth.htm - 41k -
Facts About Teenage Sex and Pregnancy in the African American ...
Spaci Teenage Sex is leading to high rates of pregancy in the African American Community.
www.blackwomenshealth.com/teen_sex.htm - 53k -
African American Teenage Pregnancy Specific links
African American Teenage Pregnancy News
Nuclear Family Making Comeback in the African American Community (FOX 4 News Kansas City)
At a time when homicides have trended upwards among African Americans across the Kansas City metro, community leaders say that another important statistic has escaped the headlines. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that two-parent households now make up 40 percent of all African American families, up five percent from 2004.
Read more...Blogs Comment On Future Of Abortion Rights Under Obama Administration, 'Virginity Pledge' Study, Other Topics (Medical News Today)
The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. Â ~ "True Common Ground for the 111th Congress," Kay Steiger, RH Reality Check: The increased number of abortion-rights supporters in the House and Senate of the 111th Congress is "encouraging to the pro-choice community," Steiger writes.
Read more...Movie Review: 'Valkyrie' misses mark (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
A disastrously miscast Tom Cruise in the lead coupled with an impossible-to-follow narrative prove nearly fatal to "Valkyrie." Too bad, because many high-schoolers (probably not middle-schoolers) might have found the suspense thriller compelling. It dramatizes a failed 1944 plot by highly placed, often aristocratic, members of the regular German military to assassinate Adolf Hitler, take over ...
Read more...Obama Watch: Memphis admirers gear up for his inauguration (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
President-Elect Barack Obama made only one visit to Memphis in 2008 -- a quick stop en route to the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi. He did not deliver a single campaign speech in the nation's 18th-largest city during his presidential run. Despite this conspicuous absence, Obama's footprints cover Memphis.
Read more...END OF THE YEAR: State Supreme Court Says Same-Sex Couples Have Constitutional Right to Marry...Lee Edmon Becomes ... (Metropolitan News-Enterprise)
1— Jean M. Lawler, who became the first female partner at Murchison & Cumming, LLP in 1993, took over as managing partner of the firm. 3—Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reappointed Michael Hersek as state public defender....Two denials of parole to a former motorcycle club member by then-Gov.
Read more...Kwanzaa celebration set in Decatur on Saturday (Herald & Review)
DECATUR — Wole Adeoye sees the similarity of the American celebration of Kwanzaa to ceremonies in his native Nigeria.
Read more...Television movies for the week of Sept. 21 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
A About a Boy HHH '02. Hugh Grant. An irresponsible playboy becomes emotionally attached to a woman's 12-year-old son. (PG-13) (2:00) ABCFAM: Sat. 4 P.M. (CC) Absence of Malice HHH '81.
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