Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in… — Hakeem Jeffries Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world;… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or… — Jordan Peele 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
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him. — Julianne Malveaux 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
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't walk around all the time thinking of myself as African American, but oftentimes in Hollywood, you are reminded of that… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Silicon Valley is not a perfect meritocracy, but it is open to all who are highly motivated. For example, there is a… — Deborah Perry Piscione Copy Share Image
As an African American growing up in the Bay Area, it was nice to have coaches who look like me. But more… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
