I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
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It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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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
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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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In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
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