African American in a sentence

Aside from Black American, these include Afro-American (in use from the late 1960s to 1990) and African American (used in the United States to refer to Black Americans, people often referred to in the past as American Negroes).

African Americans and the Vote Symposium by Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture – Join historians, educators, and others as they share their experiences with the history of African Americans and the vote in the State of Maryland.

Friends of the Howe House is a community coalition dedicated to preserving the historic home of James Howe, the first African American homeowner in Montclair, and the legacy of the local African American community.

The African American Museum of Iowa did a call for submissions of work from African-American artists in Iowa completed after 2000.

Clearly, Governor Newsom, Superintendent Tony Thurmond—himself African American–and the Democratic-controlled California Legislature have failed California’s African American students.

It also established the African American Health State Advisory Council and the African American Health Special Emphasis Grants for community-based organizations to plan and develop programs to improve Black health outcomes.

There’s a difference between being African American and being Black … All she had to say was that I am Black, but I’m not African American.

Gyamfi asserted that Lacey, who is African American, has a history of discriminating against African-American women and refused to meet with Nixon because of her race.

The store security personnel were all African American and the assailant was African American.

As African American-based organizations we will not tolerate the treatment shown in the video of these two African American women.

By the turn of the 20th century, two African American leaders had emerged who offered starkly different visions for African American progress: Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.

In the African American community, hip hop serves as a musical culture and an instrument to voice the struggles and hardships of the African American race in the United States, such as discrimination, poverty and other social injustices.

She went on to become a United States Senator in 2016, is the second African American woman in history to be elected to the Senate, and the first African American and first woman to serve as Attorney General of California.

Since Oregon’s law was passed, Portland State University (PSU) hired its first African American woman athletic director and the University of Oregon hired its first African American head football coach.

African American Experience in Annapolis Tour – In February 2018, Colonial Tours of Annapolis began offering an African American Experience in Annapolis walking tour that’s available throughout the year upon request from individuals and groups.

They have no concept of how their participation damages the African American community by sending a weak message and a poor example to young African American boys and men – man of whom grew up without their fathers in the house.

African American women, he believed, would have the same degree of empowerment as white women once African American men had the vote; hence, general female suffrage was, according to Douglass, of less concern than black male suffrage.

Belcastro was also accused of the murder of lawyer Octavius Granady, an African American who challenged Thompson's candidate for the African American vote, and was chased through the streets on polling day by cars of gunmen before being shot dead.

Race In the crossover of African American "race music" to a growing white youth audience, the popularization of rock and roll involved both black performers reaching a white audience and white performers appropriating African American music.

Ritchie's appointment to the faculty made him the first African American to serve on the faculty at Kent State and also made him the first African American professor to serve on the faculty of any state university in Ohio.