The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now
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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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The empowerment of black women constitutes ... the empowerment of our entire community.
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[Blacks] have twice the rates of prostate cancer death as Caucasian men, ... For reasons we don't know, it also starts at a younger age in African-American men.
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