And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He's a black man, and he passes for his whole life as Jewish, and in doing so rejects his family.

他是黑人，并以犹太人的身份度过一生，这样做受到了家人的反对。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In nineteen forty-five, there were not many jobs open to a black man, even someone who had attended college.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

One day, while Giovani was looking out his window, he saw an old man in a black cape walking in the garden.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

That same year,three white men in Texas beat a black man, James Byrd Junior,and pulled him to his death behind a truck.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

In such a war,he said, the North would break the chains of the black man on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

As they stood talking, a man dressed in a long black cape came down the street.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play in modern major league baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

It's just kind of overwhelming." The modest Holcomb, a stocky man who sports a beard, said he is not the one who deserves all the credit in his black USA-1 sled dubbed "Night Train."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28