New data highlights an increasing wealth divide across the United States. pick-uppath/Getty Images
by Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto
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by Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa
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When discussing Black history throughout the Americas, Afro-Latino's impact on Black American culture and history runs deep.
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Jomonna Smith listens to her children, 12-year-old Mon'Dayja and 9-year-old Mon'Dae, answer the doctor's questions about school, chores and their health. (Public Source Photo/Alexandra Kanik) by Halle Stockton (Public Source)--Jomonna Smith, a 30-year-old woman, held her last job in 2008 as a store cashier. She is a single mother of three children, making ends meet with government assistance, styling hair on the side and a bit of family help. She relies on buses to get around and pays $301 a month to live in a public housing project in Braddock, a borough southeast of Pittsburgh. But she craves more for herself and her children.
BOB DAVIS No doubt you all have seen the furor that has erupted over Paula Deen and her recent testimony in a lawsuit that has been published all over the Internet? My initial reaction when hearing about is was something along the lines of; "Well, it doesn't exactly surprise me, she's no different than a whole lot of people in the United States..." Then I thought about the different ways that Lil Wayne and Emmett Till might react to Paula Deen and her commentary? Then I saw Black American CBS News commentator Nancy Giles on TV making the following statement: "...and on top of everything else she STOLE all of OUR recipes anyhow" That's when the light bulb went off over my head.
