“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African-American worker, the Latino worker. She's going to do nothing. Give me your… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and… — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
My grandmothers are Irish-American and German-American; my grandfather is from the Caribbean. My father is African-American. My family looked funny. I just… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles… — John W. Rogers, Jr Copy Share Image
Black churches are very powerful forces in the African American community and always have been. Because religion has been that one place… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke… — Heidi Heitkamp Copy Share Image
“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together. September 14, 1911: Writer and teacher… — William H. Armstrong Copy Share Image
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For generations, the Jewish and African-American communities have stood together, helping each other overcome their greatest challenges and triumph in the face… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
“Goddess alchemy is learning to see through this dimension into the next and welcome in what you are seeking. Healers, priestesses, and… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good… — Kenneth Edmonds Copy Share Image
I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow.… — Drew Sidora Copy Share Image