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non-urban, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods

522 black girls between the ages of 14 and 18

Three times more likely to hit a teacher * Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested * Twice as likely to have multiple sexual partners * 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease, use drugs, or drink alcohol.

who studies the link between steroid use and aggression, has recently found evidence that use of anabolic steroids may have long-term effects on behavior and aggression levels well after they stop abusing these performance enhancing drugs.

It wasn't until the arrival of Spike Lee that a Black person began to define our image in a commercially successful way

The gun-toting, drug-dealing gangsta became the predominant image for Black men.

Black women became hootchie-mama, baby-making machines who always seemed to forget to marry the baby's daddy