“The literature on African-American men’s health has often been informed by a “health behavior framework” as opposed to a “social determinants of… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s.… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“by the year 2000, the lifetime risk of incarceration for black high school dropouts was ten times higher than it was for… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of… — Brian France Copy Share Image
I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“The Tuskegee experiments are certainly a good reason for ongoing mistrust, but it is important not to overlook mistrust that is generated… — Clare Xanthos Copy Share Image
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“It should be noted that a recent publication has shown that the prevalence of autism in African Americans is nearly 25% higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not… — James E. Rogers Copy Share Image
Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem...… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him?… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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