African american Quote by Ralph Northam

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

— Henry Louis Gates

African-Americans are underrepresented.

— Arlen Specter

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore…

— Thomas Sowell

The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is…

— Tammy Duckworth

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

“This part of the Obama formula is the most troubling, and least thought out. This judgment emerges from my own biography. I am the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

From their resilience through the brutalities of slavery to the ongoing fight for equity, African Americans have played a critical role as the economic…

— Al N. Green

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of…

— Huey Newton

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's…

— Wangechi Mutu

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X