One of the major newspapers here (unintelligible) had a two-page spread detailing centuries of African-American history.
I've had professors of African-American history on the same day, and it was just magic.
But the portrait, often seen in books on African-American history, was recently discovered to be a fraud.
And this child has these kind of semimagical powers and so can see so many different moments of African-American history.
Hip-hop is my gateway to their lives and learning about African-American history.
The edgy topics of Wright's sermons have included the income gap between whites and African-Americans and the inaccuracy of African-American history taught in public schools.
"I think of the Indians and their situation when their ancestors' bones were taken for display at museums, " says Al Walton of the African-American History Project Committee.
This historic cemetery sponsors special events, such as Sunday in the Park, during which Victorian costumes are invited, and numerous tours for Halloween, lessons in African-American history and more.
Then, Waterbury's African-American History Project Committee learned about Larry.
West says trains have an important place in African-American history -- from symbolism in Negro spirituals to a real conveyance for the mass migration of blacks moving to the North in the 1930s, '40s and '50s.
Hydeia was named one of the Top 100 African-American "History Makers in the Making" last year by the Grio, a news website dedicated to African-American issues.
African-American men certainly could use an intervention from the most successful African-American man in history.
In 1952 he became the first African-American pilot in the history of the Corps and in 1978 the first African-American Brigadier General.
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"I've watched the Bronx burn and left for abandoned and now being slowly rebuilt, " said Mark Naison, a professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University.
Back in 2009, the inauguration was a huge deal -- an estimated 1.8 million people packed the National Mall to see America's first African-American president make history.
The story strains to make a mythopoetic connection between the classics of African-American music and the personal history that they embody.
The deal must still be approved by National Football League owners, but Fowler would be the first African-American owner in modern NFL history.
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And we, as historians and journalists, have to find new and innovative ways to communicate the message - the great message - transcended message of African American history to the broader population.
African-American men and men with a family history of prostate cancer should be especially vigilant.
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In the program, couples also learn about the history of the African-American marriage and many for the first time plot their family tree to trace marriage and divorces.
He's a founding partner of African DNA, which offers African-American clients a method of tracing their history beyond 1870, the year where federal census records end in the "black hole of slavery, " Mr. Gates says.
Senator Barack Obama clinching the Democratic nomination and making history as the first African-American to win a major party bid.
Mainstream voters accepted him as a problem-solver, and helped them feel that electing an African-American would begin a new and better racial history.
Through the course of American history, the allegiance of the African-American vote has swung between the two major parties, often dictated by events.
Over its 55-year history Fatburger, billing itself as "the last great hamburger stand, " has become an African-American cultural icon.
And when Barack Obama takes office in January, his wife, Michelle, will also make history as the country's first African-American first lady.
This kind of image of a man of color violating a white woman, of course, is classic to American history--from Native Americans to African-Americans, of course, and it also was used a lot against Asian-Americans.
Harlem, of course, is one of the city's most history-laden neighborhoods, the center of African-American life in a neighborhood filled with churches, jazz clubs and the famous Apollo Theater.
It would give the nation its third African-American governor since Reconstruction and it would be the only time in history when two he and Deval Patrick (D-MA) were serving simultaneously.
Part travelogue and part ancient history, it is the story of a singular African-American confronting his roots from Zanzibar to Timbuktu.
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