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Sociological, biological and health research and findings about race and ethnicity; and personal reflections, anecdotes, and commentary on family values, traditions of different racial and ethnic groups to explore and communicate larger truths about the importance of family, the changing definition of family, across racial and ethnic groups.
June 20th, 2013
Written by Terez Howard in All About Family with 2 Comments
I did something, Terez,” my friend tells me one day. “Something bad.”
My stomach tightened as she told me that she had smoked. She said it was an awful experience, and the cigarette made her feel sick. “I will never do it again,” she said, and she never has.
Why did she do it? Peer pressure.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines peer pressure as a strong influence from different racial groups,...
June 14th, 2013
Written by Manny Otiko in All About Family with 0 Comments
In a world where we have gay characters regularly featured on television and there is talk of legalizing gay marriage nationwide, it would seem that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community is reaching near acceptance in mainstream society. But what about LGBT youth of varying racial groups? According to Je-Shawna Wholley, Programs and Outreach associate, at the National Black...
June 5th, 2013
Written by D. A. Barber in All About Family with 0 Comments
When the Heritage Foundation released a report co-authored by Jason Richwine, whose university dissertation concluded, “New Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children,” the country was outraged. However, a new report – and upcoming documentary - indicates that among the 32 states that once enforced laws to force sterilization of Latino women for just such a reason included California....
May 31st, 2013
Written by Mary Annette Pember in All About Family with 0 Comments
Anishinabe Naming Ceremony Binds Children to Heritage
In our hearts, or deeper still — in our bellies — is the Anishinabe sense of place. As Anishinabe or Ojibwe tribal peoples, we are drawn to our land. And so I load up my kids in my suburban-Cincinnati-mom van and make the long journey home to Wisconsin. We return for ceremony, or just to visit. Sometimes I’m not sure why we go back, but rather...
May 30th, 2013
Written by Bob Christie - Associated Press in All About Family with 0 Comments
PHOENIX (AP) - Civil rights groups on Wednesday sued Arizona to block a 2011 law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child, which makes it a felony to knowingly provide a sex- or race-based abortion.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona said the law unconstitutionally singles out Asian and black women based on stereotypes, and the sponsors' beliefs that Asian...
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