Barack Obama, if elected, would be the first black American to win the White House.
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Inexplicably, they try to convey that impoverishment with outmoded black American diction and a Thelma Ritter-like solidity.
Kerry Washington, who plays Broomhilda, Django's wife, says she felt a responsibility to the black American audience.
He loved the jazz he heard on the radio, and sometimes bought jazz records from black American GIs.
And an immigrant Muslim dentist will have quite different experiences from a black American who converted while in jail.
The book's title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, a black American poet, that Mr Mbeki often cites.
But it's not something where they're doing it to copy black American culture.
Both Essence and BET built their brands over time among black American audiences.
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Early in the program, we talked about black American struggles with alcohol abuse.
Her talk show host roots are obvious as she recounts the experiences of now legendary black American expatriates for guests.
But that's gone and that was actually only for about one-tenth of black American history, and we've coped in other ways.
At first glance the Bush administration's relationship with black American voters can be described in pretty simple terms: It is bad.
Julia Browne launched Walking the Spirit Tours in 1994, and it became the first company to focus specifically on black American history in Paris.
Respected HBO boxing analyst Jim Lampley disagrees, asserting that "black American boxers are no longer as dominant because of the global rise of others".
In an audience of maybe 2, 000 I saw one black American, planted neatly in the TV wideshot in a grotesquely clumsy piece of photo-cynicism.
The painting depicts a black American businessman getting his shoes shined.
But, again, it does: the children fathered by black American G.
For Parker, jockeys like Murphy and Winkfield didn't just change the face of racing -- they paved the way for generations of black American sports stars.
The majority of Muslim Americans are either upwardly mobile migrants from southern Asia or Iran, or black American converts who lack any personal links to Islam's heartland.
Critics saw Mr Gore's speech as directed primarily at a domestic audience, particularly gay and black American voters who might soon help him into the White House.
In short, Garland-Carter is part of the black American elite.
What about young Afro-Brazilians, do they aspire to be Americanized or are - you know, since Brazil has such a rich culture heritage, do they keep their distance from the black American tradition?
This compilation of archival footage, shot by Swedish documentarians, presents a gallery of young black American leaders who sought, in lieu of mere formal equality under the law, a full participation in and radical transformation of American society.
Peter (the subtle and sure Stephen Tyrone Williams), a black American artist who is married to a white British woman named Josephine (Larisa Polonsky), goes to Berlin, where a gallery is putting on a show of his work.
"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.
Given the history of racism and segregation and slavery in this country, to have the inevitable outcome of the presidential race be the election (or re-election) of a black American would be a historical event, and good for the country.
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It has taken a worldwide revival of interest in the blues largely led by white listeners and record buyers to persuade the city to take seriously the tourist potential of the Beale Street area, where generations of black American musicians performed for predominantly black crowds.
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But not every young black American wants to be an athlete and presumably one of the main reasons for the falling numbers of top-class African-American boxers isn't that they're linemen or running backs in the NFL, or centres in the NBA. Rather, it's because they've taken Ali at his word.
It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
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