In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over… — Tyson Beckford Copy Share Image
Just knowing the history of WWE, I know there haven't been a lot of African Americans that have come through and been… — Naomi Copy Share Image
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“only 1 of every 3 young black male high school dropouts was able to obtain any type of employment during the average… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
I remember talking to old-school African American grandpops, and they're just like, 'When I saw my wife, I looked up from across… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our… — Claudette Colvin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
I think that people in America, unfortunately or fortunately, are just discovering different aspects of the humanity of African-American people. And so… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we… — Steve Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image