Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. Between 1964 and 1969, the percentage of African American adults… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History… — Harriet A. Washington Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“While appreciating its accomplishments, we must acknowledge that the legal end of segregation fell short of bringing African Americans to full equality.… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
There are so many people that don't come in contact with black men. Whether they live in a homogeneous area that's mostly… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
If [Hillary] Clinton can't boost African-American turnout, even with all that help, the question becomes whether she can make up for it… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
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“bolstered southern power by scrapping the rule that had once counted an African American as only three-fifths of a person for electoral… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
Aug. 2, 1992, was one of the most memorable moments in sports-entertainment. It was on that night in Baltimore, that Ron Simmons… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people's lives. You look at a… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed… — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
Johnson Publishing has been built on filling a need for African-Americans. This is what's happening with E Style. There was nothing that… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no… — Vivica A. Fox Copy Share Image
This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
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If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a certain subset of African American sports announcers, anchors and analysts who are always ready to spring into action and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
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