1. African-Americans have been complaining about police harassment for years.

2. African-Americans were often typecast as servants, entertainers or criminals.

3. She wants to showcase African-American literature.

4. Today African-Americans are 12 percent of the population.

5. The remarks deeply offended many in the African-American community.

6. Colleges have been aggressively wooing the top African-American and Hispanic students.

7. Martin Luther King Jr. African-American Civil Rights activist.

8. Their African-American music became famous.

9. She was African-American, middle-aged, wide-eyed.

10. "Nigger" is a dysphemistic term for "African-American".

11. This association was not observed among premenopausal African-American women.

12. On December 21, I named Hazel OLeary, an African-American utility executive from Northern States Power Company in Minnesota, to be secretary of energy, and Dick Riley, to be secretary of education.

13. The story concerned a young African-American doctor, played by Poitier, who wants to marry Houghton, a young white woman.

14. The late African-American poet Langston Hughes said the word 'sums up for us who are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America.'

15. Farrakhan was a poor standard-bearer for the causes of African-Americans.

16. U. S. President-elect Barack Obama pays tribute today (Monday) to the late African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. by focusing on community service.

17. E. B. Du Bois was a distinguished thinker and activist in African-American history.

18. They have constituencies they need to worry about, and some 20 to 25 percent of the Democratic base is the African-American vote.

19. Some conservative commentators, who didn't have much else to gloat about, dwelt lingeringly on what they evidently regarded as the upside of the huge, Obama-sparked African-American turnout.

20. He and his brother Ira collaborated in 1934 to create Porgy and Bess, an opera that explored African-American culture.

21. I also got invaluable support from Dr. Lloyd Hackley, the African-American chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a predominantly black institution.

22. In 1956 the tournament was host to the first African-American Grand Slam winner, the American Althea Gibson.

23. In the next instalment, I'll look at Ellington's background and the remarkable "Harlem renaissance" of African-American art that nurtured his early music.

24. While walking with her baby, she runs into Ms. Eva Turner, an old, kind, light-skinned African-American woman who takes her into her home and refuses to charge her rent.

25. The historic nature of Mr. Obama's rise to the nation's highest elective office is not lost on African-American Melba Clarke of Mississippi, who experienced racial segregation in her youth.

26. Voters in Pennsylvania know in the end their choice will be historic, and for the first time a major political party will nominate either a woman or an African-American for the presidency.

27. In a recent interview, Lee recalled that Walter Kerr, then the drama critic for the Times, said "that 'First Breeze' was the first African-American play that invited him in to share in it."

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28. Even Mendes herself thinks it's odd. Why is she considered too dark to be paired with a white lead, but just right for an African-American?

29. In the week after Christmas I signed a few more bills and appointed Roger Gregory to be the first African-American judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

30. U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a devout segregationist for much of his political career, fathered a child when he was 22 with an African-American woman who worked for his family.

31. I landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on November 6, two days after the first African-American was elected president of the United States.

32. Glamorous studio shots of film actresses Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne, for example, make it clear that African-American women were every bit as alluring as their white counterparts.

33. If the election of our first African-American president didn't stir you, if it didn't leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there's something wrong with you.

34. Past festivals have focused on China, Berlin and African-American music.

35. But African-American homicide rose from three times the white rate in New York in the 1850s to almost 13 times that figure a century later.

36. James Ellington was a butler and a caterer, but he was prosperous by African-American standards of the time, and extensively self-educated thanks to the library of his employer, a doctor.

37. By joining Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright in the act of literary testimony, Malcolm became part of the most essential genre of African-American literature.

38. where people are learning about the African-American leader Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in 1818, but escaped to become a leading abolitionist.

39. African-American music, in many ways, has played a demonstrative role in this evolution.

40. The HIV antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally.

41. I also named Jesse Brown, an African-American ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, who was the executive director of the Disabled American Veterans, to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

42. The Touhys, a well-to-do white family, can't ignore the needs of a homeless African-American boy.

43. LOA encompasses African-American literature from slave narratives to the essays of intellectuals like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois and the fiction of Richard Wright.

44. Black leaders continued to condemn the actions of a Cambridge police sergeant who handcuffed the African-American professor outside his own home Thursday.

45. Mobs assaulted any black person they saw on the street, ransacked and burned homes in African-American neighborhoods, and looted stores owned by blacks and “sympathetic” whites.

46. While she is part of an increasing number of African-American women who breast-feed their children, a recent study says that as a black woman, Borget is still the exception and not the norm.

47. Tayari Jones is an African-American woman, southern, middle-class, right-handed writer.

48. With the primary battles over, Barack Obama is focused now on his Republican opponent, John McCain, and the quest to become the first African-American president.

49. Three days after celebrating her 45th birthday, she will take her place by her husband's side on Jan 20 as Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's first African-American president.

50. Still, an historic election that delivered America's first African-American president coincides with a historic period of severe challenges.

51. She also cited the 2008 race's significance as the first to produce a major party nomination of an African-American presidential candidate.

52. Gorgeous, gifted and preternaturally poised, the 24-year-old actress-singer came to Hollywood in 1941 and quickly became the first African-American movie star.

53. To the contrary, eschewing the label "African-American writer" can actually reinscribe hurtful assumptions.

54. The greater truth about America, however, for virtually all the writers in this collection would lie in the faith of the great-uncle of African-American novelist Charles Johnson.

55. What it would do to African-American support, in my view, to take the nomination at this stage from Barack Obama is something that superdelegates would not even want to venture to find out.

56. It also reflected, in the title's reference to African-American culture, the buzz of the "Harlem renaissance".

57. People co-hosts the Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala, for example, and Essence sponsors an annual concert of African-American music.

58. It began soon after the end of slavery in the south, when African-American musicians became able to travel and play music for a living.

59. Another special StoryCorps initiative focuses on African-American history and is called StoryCorps Griot after a West African tradition of storytelling.

60. At the Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya, Barack's ancestral homeland, several mothers were naming their babies after the U.S.'s first African-American president.

61. Obama would become the forty-fourth president of the United States, the country's first African-American president.

62. Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve a position of national prominence in 20th century America.

63. He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.

64. But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.

65. Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, be-lieve that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason, for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together.

66. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally.

67. Mr Obama spoke after taking the oath of office as America's 44th president - and its first African-American leader.

68. Mr Biden once described Mr Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy".

69. In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

70. MLS' Garber disputes this, pointing to U.S. national team member Eddie Johnson, a fleet-footed African-American who initially played football and basketball at his Florida high school.

71. In addition, the strategic partnership will also introduce African-American music and film and TV entertainment products to China; as well as uniquely African-American culinary culture.

72. During this period, African-American actors were mostly limited to playing servants or African natives. Lena Horne refused to play roles that represented African-Americans disrespectfully.

73. It opened the door to the Oval Office to an African-American for the first time, and did so with a national vote in which his race seems to have been a relatively minor factor.

74. He says he's not going to dwell on the criticism he's gotten after calling Barack Obama a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect.

75. I recently saw a movie about Ruby Bridges, one of the African-American children in New Orleans who were part of the first attempt to desegregate public schools in the south.

76. When Barack was starting out as a politician, his rivals dismissed him as inauthentically African-American or even "the white man in blackface".

77. A collision of worlds when two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds get together one weekend in Martha's Vineyard for a wedding.

78. Arthur Ashe was also the first African-American to win the men's singles competition at a Grand Slam event.

79. Another important dialect is spoken by many African Americans. Sometimes this dialect is called "Ebonics, " but linguists call it "African-American English.

80. In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

81. Raines had the right combination of intellect, knowledge of the budget, and political skills to succeed at OMB, and was the first African-American ever to hold the job.

82. This autographv is worth a lot because he's such a memorable figure in baseball and African-American history.

83. They were both children of African-American ministers in Beaumont, Texas, who grew up in the same neighborhood and had gone together for years before they married.

84. But we will say, as a general rule, we believe this person could be a white individual or a black or African-American individual, or perhaps Hispanic, Native American.

85. Both of us had chosen Simmie Knox to paint our portraits: we liked Knox's lifelike style, and he would be the first African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.

86. I had traveled here to Henson's last home -- now a historic site that Carter formerly directed -- to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses.