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Elijah Cummings
American
Politician
About the author
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Time
#Needs
#Act
#Americans
#Majority
#Rights
#Minority
#Guidance
#Voting
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Children
#Years
#Americans
#Childhood
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#School
#Fact
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#People
#May
#Nation
#Abuse
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Death
#American
#Violence
#Journey
#Workers
#Civil rights
#Unemployment
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Children
#Crime
#Help
#Education
#Poverty
#Students
#Nation
#Prosperity
#Drugs
#Generations
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Women
#African
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Elijah Cummings,
American
Politician
#Work
#Needs
#Events
#Health
#Minority
#Healthcare