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
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
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed… — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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
“Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite beauty in… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims; it includes… — Melania Trump Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
“Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History… — Harriet A. Washington Copy Share Image
“But Palestinians do respond overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Indigenous populations of an entire hemisphere, subjected to the largest genocide in… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
After decades of persistent, courageous advocacy - often at risk to their own lives, livelihoods, and safety - African Americans succeeded in… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Part of that is ordinary African-Americans, you come out of your house and you see the conditions in your neighborhood and you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
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