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President Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, brings a life story unlike that of any previous U. S. leader.

White was the first African-American man to serve on the Missouri Supreme Court and was a highly regarded judge.

Albert's killing, like most of the youth murders in Chicago, took place in the poor and largely African-American south side of the city.

"Among African-American teenagers, about one in two were affected compared to one in five white teens, " she said.

There is no well evidence of that dawn the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.

The next day, at the White House, I held a reception for Nelson Mandela with African-American religious leaders.

Historically, it was an African American ghetto that had a reputation as a crime-ridden no-go zone among white Angelenos.

He said, "To function effectively as an African American male in the U. S. it helps to have a disarming mechanism. "

You see people without neighbors who are African-American were much more likely to say, "That would give me a problem. "

But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.

He was always a very proud African-American player who was deeply hurt by the conditions of the time, and I don't blame him at all.

Although there are a number of reference works on African American writers, the emphasis tends to be on historical and literary authors.

Female, African-american. I think he is one of the best actors out there! I loved him in Infernal Affairs, one of my favorite movies.

African-American employment is often serial rather than continuous, and many people lack retirement and health plans.

She also cited the 2008 race's significance as the first to produce a major party nomination of an African-American presidential candidate.

She witnessed more civil rights history than any other African-American leader of her time.

Yet he was told that because he was black, an African-American, there was no way he could beat the white, Nazi German athletes.

In her essay, Ms. Dare wrote about her own experience growing up as an African-American girl interested in sports.

Senator David Palmer, an African-American running for President, writes his speech for the next day's California primary election.

Even with an African American couple in the White House, the fate of the black family in America has never been so precarious.

But Carmen Carrera admits that her family would not be equally happy if she had chosen to marry an African-American.

I grew up in a mostly African American community in Chicago. I planned to live and die in my community. But God had different plans.

Even Mendes herself thinks it's odd. Why is she considered too dark to be paired with a white lead, but just right for an African-American?

Some Haitians were amazed Friday that an African-American CNN camerawoman did not speak Creole, the French-based native language in Haiti.

It began soon after the end of slavery in the south, when African-American musicians became able to travel and play music for a living.

The first person who was hit when the British soldiers began firing was an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks.

But very promising, and something that you counseled me on, African-American women tend to have a more aggressive form of breast cancer. . .

Knowling grew up in the Midwest, in a large African-American family that had little money and plenty of dysfunction.

Lou Jing was brought up by her mother, a single parent, after her African American father had left China for reasons not explained.

So I packed my stuff and moved into a noisy, violent housing project in an African-American neighborhood in New Orleans.

An African-American with a father born in Kenya and a childhood spent partly in Indonesia presents a very different face to the world.

She was the first African American to compete for the U. S. Nationals.

Hayden was an African American poet who managed, in this brief epic, to bring the slave trade into lyrical focus with a polyphony of voices.

Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States, the first African-American elevated to the White House, AP reported.

Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood.

African-American children in the North had separate schools; the children of slaves received no schooling.

For Obama, Julius Erving, better known as Doctor J, was a hero--a gentlemanly, smart, and thoughtful African--American sports figure.

Mr. Obama closed out his campaigning by phoning into radio shows that reach African-American and young voters.

Gloria Naylor, a renowned African American writer, seems to defy many of the stereotypes of someone who believes in mind control.

african american, 20, male. In the mood for love was the first movie I saw with him.

His Ghana speech was sensible and stirring. But in the end his message was that African-American relations would see no grand change.

And he comes around the corner -- finds a group of young African-American men playing dice.

She was young and African American, so I think she understood how I felt as the only nonwhite kid.

One hundred years ago, the great African-American scholar W. E. B. DuBois warned that the problem of the century would be the color line.

The U. S. writers included Asian-American and African-American writers as well as a visual artist.

One day, a well-dressed 30-year-old African-American woman, bleeding from a head wound, ran up to me on my foot beat.

This suggested the African American faces had activated the stereotype and made people react more aggressively to the frustrating situation.

African American history is an essential thread of the American narrative that traces our Nation's enduring struggle to perfect itself.

An African American man was the head designer, developer, and overseer of this project.

African-American Belva Davis was at the forefront of that shift.

Standing before the U. S. Capitol, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States.

In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

The first woman and the first African American to have a serious shot at the White House fought for votes all across the country.

A few days later, 9 African American students slipped into the school to enroll and a full scale riot erupted.

This book introduces young children to the joyous celebration of this original African-American holiday.

Parks is the first woman and the second African-American to be honored by lying in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol building.

In the African American community where I grew up, Sunday was the only day we could dress up.

This was a book-length poem in five sections depicting the African American urban experience using music, poetry, and history.

Kroft: The emotion of that night was fueled, in part, by the fact that you were first African-American ever elected. Did you feel that?

In January, the U. S. had no response to my two page abstract submitted to the African American AIDS 2000 conference.

It is the heart of African American life, and it is now all over the world.

Amy Roberts worried that developers might tear it down. So she started the African-American Heritage Coalition to try to save it.

That evening, they decided to establish a seminary for the training of African American preachers.

Because few mainstream publications have done in-depth features on regular African-American women, .

Will an Asian-American author, or an African-American or a woman, ever be credited with writing the Great American Novel?

The images gave voters a chance to see what the first African-American "first family" would look like if Obama is elected in November.

How do you feel when you think of all the competing writers within the African-American contemporary novel industry?

In order to avoid trouble, the coordinators wanted to make sure that their African students did not look African-American.

Lee Daniels, another Best Director nominee, is only the second African-American ever nominated in that category.

African-American storytelling is a strong family tradition that dates back hundreds of years.

Obama had made a name for himself at Harvard, where he was the first African American president of the law review.

The Obamas are the first African American family to move into the White House.

He was a tall, slender attractive African-American with a mustache and dimples.

After earning an undergraduate degree in sociology with a minor in African-American studies, she attended Harvard Law School.

If Yao were African American, he would had been treated much fair by referees.

Ron would become the first African-American secretary of commerce and one of the most effective leaders the department ever had.

Still, no African-American rap music to corrupt the young, at least.

When she was a little girl, Price heard the legendary African American singer Marian Anderson.

We began to have African-American kids beating up Muslim kids, and it shocked all of us.

And he's seen club owners get cranky and racist at the thought of African American singers performing at their venues.

Cooke argued in this book that the history of African-American literature passes essentially through four stages.

Obama would become the forty-fourth president of the United States, the country's first African-American president.

In the times of slavery in this country, African American couples were not allowed to formally marry and live together.

Connected with physical word, African-American writers speak of the reality of our brilliant, diverse people.

Immigrant, African-American and Latino communities, and rural communities are over-represented in the war.

Some, particularly middle-class African-American families, have left the city and gone to the suburbs within our region.

This autograph is worth a lot because he's such a memorable figure in baseball and African-American history.

Bobo: Yes, he is the first African American to be elected president of the United States.

There, she says, she was inspired by a courageous African-American grandmother.

Organizers have been preparing for as many as two million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.

One bright spot in the data was the performance of African-American and Hispanic students in fourth and eighth grades.

Organizers have been preparing for as many as two million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.

Today (Wednesday) marks the first day of the week-long observance of Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday within the African-American community.

Compared with Hispanic, Caucasian, African American and Japanese women, Chinese women were more likely to report early morning awakening.

How do they feel about their country and their future with an African-American politician now the favourite to become president?

For decades, it was the status symbol in African American communities.

Today, Zora Neale Hurston has not been forgotten. She influenced other African-American female writers, including Alice Walker.

But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary.

Yes, Russia's Olympic basketball fate is in the hands of an African-American point guard from Pittsburgh.

Many African-American wedding ceremonies end with the bride and groom jumping over a broomstick to begin their new life together.

For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.

However, majorities of both blacks and whites did agree that the country is ready for an African-American president.

He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

The company reported that in 2006 39 percent of its managers were African-American, Asian, or Hispanic.

Michael Blake is the Director of African American Outreach for the White House.

Children could also select from culturally relevant books featuring African-American characters, as well as from books in Spanish.

And young Malia Obama's observation to her father: "First African-American president: better be good, " is, if true, priceless.

Barack Obama took the oath of office becoming the first African American President of the United States.

The baseej disagreed: it was African-American so it could pollute Iranian society with the mores of the country's greatest enemy.

Nathaniel Jones, feisty and independent, was the first African- American to own a gas station in North Carolina.

Among African-American and Hispanic women the lowest first-divorce rates were found among women with less than a high school diploma.

Our first guest could make history by becoming the first African-American President of the United States.

He was a poet, diplomat, songwriter, and anthologist (compiler) of African American culture.

When Dr. Barnes died in a car accident in 1951, he left control of his collection to Lincoln University, a small African-American college.

Emergence of a new, black pulp fiction may indicate the maturity, rather than the decline, of African-American literature.

As an African-American, she'd also found herself in countless situations where racial conflict seemed inevitable.

In the United States, the incidence of HIV and AIDS cases in the African-American community has increased in recent years.

Alexander is chair of African American Studies at Yale University and a 1992 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.

Asians who are a minority in a chiefly white area car-pool more than Asians who are a minority in a chiefly African-American area.

Sullivan said. "So yes, we want all of our physicians, white, African American, Latino, what have you, to be culturally competent. "

An African American cop goes for a haircut and got the same "community service treatment" . The cop is happy and left.

Ben goes to an urban neighborhood for more votes for Maggie and falls in love with an African-American woman.

"There is no question that African-American and Latino communities are social conservative communities, " Mr Schmidt said.

In fact, you know, there's a lot of mixed race in African-American families, and they don't really talk about that that much.

Why seniors in African-American neighborhoods didn't fare as well is unclear and further research is needed, Clark said.

National studies have shown that African-American students are no more likely than others to commit offenses that require removal.

After World War II African-American African-American movement against apartheid and discrimination, the mass movement for democratic rights.

he is so the first African American to serve as director of speechwriting for White House.

African American "soul" food for example, is often deep fried.

America's first African-American president won more than the 270 electoral votes he needed to secure four more years in the White House.

Moreover, large-leafed species of Yunnan, can introduced to African American, you say that others are not producing Pu'er tea?

She won that prize in 1993. She was the first African American to receive the award.

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

American English has many dialects , especially the midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects .

In his second year, he stood for election and became the first African-American President of the Law Review.

Many saw them in a far more political light at that time; now these books dominate African-American literature or seem to.

Also in 1986, LCDR Donnie Cochran, joined the Blue Angels as the first African-American Naval Aviator to be selected.

Political analyst Michael Barone argues that offending African-American voters could hurt the Democrats in the November general election.

Separately, Obama nominated African American physician Regina Benjamin as surgeon general yesterday.

The image is a compelling one, but African American politics, religion, and culture are about much more than civil rights.

As the first African-American woman writer winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison has published eight novels to date.

African-American writer Richard Wright's masterpiece Native Son is a milestone in the history of American literature.

The 46-year-old first-term senator is the first African American to become the presumptive presidential nominee of a major American party.

Here was a tall, talented, good looking -- and very strong-willed -- African-American man.

For the first time in the United States, a predominantly white group of voters voted for an African-American candidate for President.

Tyra was the first African American woman on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Yeah, it's also the only federal holiday honoring an African-American.

African American delegates at the conference said they would prepare a five-year plan to reduce infection rates and increase testing.

Barber shops often serve as a pipeline for health information in African-American communities.

Here's a single volume containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with lists of their works.

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

He referred to jazz as "African-American classical music, " and strove to convey the black experience in America.

America has many dialects, especially the midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects.

But neither whites in a largely African-American area nor African- Americans in a largely white area tend to car-pool.

Just north of downtown, one of Miami's oldest African-American neighbourhoods, Overtown, is on the upswing .

Tayari Jones is an African-American woman, southern, middle-class, right-handed writer.

I know of one man, a factory worker from a traditional Irish family in Chicago, who fell in love with an African American Baptist.

African American women having past STIs and residing in high-risk communities were randomly assigned to the two groups.

Actually, the line is uttered by a cloyingly politically correct character-Holmes' African-American roommate and sidekick.

Maya Angelou returned to America in 1964, with the intention of helping Malcolm build his new Organization of African American Unity.

Alice Walker is one of the most important African-American female writers of the contemporary period.

At least 120 people, most of them African-American, died in the violence.

The blues has been part of African-American culture since then, and it is still an important part of American culture .

A product of Chicago public schools, Mrs. Obama studied sociology and African-American studies at Princeton University.

An African-American conservative, Keyes was best known for his rousing speaking style.

Is of Cree, Comanche, and Yaqui Native American and African American descent.

There have been cultural claims too, with calls to blame African-American rap music from broadcast.

Human Genome Sciences will soon begin a large study of African-American lupus patients.

It also reflected, in the title's reference to African-American culture, the buzz of the "Harlem renaissance" .

But gays and lesbians have also met resistance from other segments of society, including the African-American community .

well. Races represented in the image from left to right are Caucasian, Latin American, Japanese, African American, and Indian.

Mr Cao believes voters were just fed up with Mr Jefferson, but his victory stunned the heavily African-American and Democratic city.

That same year, she became the first-ever African American chosen for the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog.

"It's the same with me, " Pinault exclaims, recalling a visit to African-American artist David Hammons.

The crisis of masculinity was portrayed as particularly sever within African American communities.

E. B. Du Bois was a distinguished thinker and activist in African-American history.

Last year, in a special election, a Latina stood against two African-American candidates. If the black vote had split, she might have won.

IT MIGHT seem obvious that American policy towards Africa would change under America's first African-American president.

The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

He also hired two other African-American coaches after Russell stepped down -- Satch Sanders and K. C. Jones, both former Celtics.

Maybe your grandmother had a secret recipe for soda bread. African American?

Death rates from cardiovascular disease are higher for African-American females than for Caucasian females.

The Touhys, a well-to-do white family, can't ignore the needs of a homeless African-American boy.

In a video interview with FT. com, he discusses US healthcare reform and what it is like to be an African-American CEO.

A seven-year-old African-American girl, Marsha, was told by her teacher to make a new friend each day.

The story concerned a young African-American doctor , played by Poitier, who wants to marry Houghton , a young white woman .

Drug trafficking and gangs are major causes of insecurity amongst the African-American neighborhoods.

It's a first statue over there, an African-American woman to be placed in this staple.

an american descended from peoples of african origin having brown to black skin; an african american ; an afro-american .

As an African-American male, I now find myself in a foreign world.

Many African American families attended the inauguration of the country's first black president.

Would like to Yunnan Green Mao Cha Ye kinds of raw material drying carts carts pulled African American processing, tea do not do things?

Now the gay community supports African American candidates, supports civil rights, and what happens?

Some African-American couples today are choosing to include this symbolic rite in their wedding ceremony.

In 1969, he became the first African American band director for a network television series, "The David Frost Show" .

However, high-class African American females are getting taller as the same as other groups.

He refused to even look at the African-American while all the Nazi German athletes were cheered and praised on the field.

African-American kids thought they were committing some act of patriotism.

He also learned about the bravery and dedication of African American troops when he was assigned to the 10th Cavalry.

For every African-American male who goes on to finish college instead of dropping out of high school, society saves $294, 000.

Some of it is based on, I think, my status as an African American in this country.

Ben Ali is of South Asian descent and Virginia Rollins is African American.

During my freshman year, every meet I attended had one common denominator: the fast runners were African-American.

But he miscalculated Rush's vulnerability, underestimating his popularity in the 70% African-American district.

The float celebrates the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, a World War II unit of African-American pilots.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

As African American, he may, after Barack Obama is expected to become, second black president in U. S. history.

American English has meny dialects, especially the midwestern, southern, African American and Spanish dialects.

Ben's Chili Bowl was popular and attracted a mix of African-American artists, professionals, and ordinary folks.

Mr Obama spoke after taking the oath of office as America's 44th president - and its first African-American leader.

You are an African American who was raised in the south side of Chicago in a rough part of town; the ghetto.

douglass ' s mother is italian - american , and her father is a multiracial blend of african american and native american.

To the contrary, eschewing the label "African-American writer" can actually reinscribe hurtful assumptions.

King also broadened his agenda to encompass efforts to focus attention on African-American poverty.

African-American women literature and critique is the new trend in the field of the contemporary western literature and critique.

Dr. King and the other African-American community leaders felt a protest was needed.

The risk reductions we observed for white and Asian patients were not seen in Hispanic and African American patients.

In 2009, the inauguration of Barack Obama, America's first African-American president, lent Black History Month a special significance.

Just look at the record-breaking turnout in the Democratic primaries, particularly among young and African-American voters.

We have a need for more African American males in the classroom to fill those voids so that our students can see that on a daily basis.

President Bush offered best wishes to Barack Obama, who will be the nation's first African-American president.

He and his brother Ira collaborated in 1934 to create Porgy and Bess, an opera that explored African-American culture.

Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, be-lieve that jazz captures the essence of America.

By the end of the war, about 186, 000 African American men had enlisted.

That August, African-American leaders organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Initially, U. Va. 's diversity program will focus on African-American, gay and Hispanic students.

I think of African-American literature as art that finds its home at the place where two roads meet.

Women represent just 11% of Harley buyers, and penetration in the African-American and Hispanic markets is similarly limited.

In some ways, urban lit may show the maturity, not the decline, of African-American literature.

Sugary sodas and fruit drinks may be linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes in African- American women, the first study shows.

In 1962, he became the first African-American player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

African-American males are at a higher risk for the disease than other men.

In less than 30 years, as schools opened and ceilings lifted, a large African American middle class has been created.

Governor Doug Wilder had made history by becoming Virginia's first African-American governor.

And only one other African-American woman had ever won the championship at Wimbledon.

All right. Now the African-American tradition of literary production is rich and long standing.

An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.

Still, around 70% of the academy's students come from low-income families, and around 95% are either Hispanic or African-American.

Lou Jing was born 20 years ago in Shanghai to a Chinese mother and an African-American father.

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

African-American music, in many ways, has played a demonstrative role in this evolution.

Given the high incidence of crime in some black communities, African-American politicians have sought measures to reduce gun violence.

He will be succeeded by David Paterson, lieutenant governor, who will become the first African-American governor of New York state.

Reading scores are on the rise. And African-American and Hispanic students posted all-time highs.

What major trend in African American voter registration is shown by this map?

Tonight America elected its first African-American president.

Whites and Asians outpaced African-American and Hispanic students.

Does the election of the first African-American as president mean the battle has at last been won?

Trev: I mean here in this city. There are many influences here. French, Spanish, Creole, African, American and Caribbean.

How can we tell historical stories of African American scientists and engineers?