His father is of African American and Chinese descent, and his mother is African American.

Bob Colescott, African American artist Leon Golub, a white artist.

How does an American movie find a place in the French social debate?

It's also extremely surprising to many Americans, a heavily African American space.

What does it mean, right now, to be African American in America?

Mike Colter will play the character in A.K.A.

Since then, African American and black have often had parallel status.

This is something I seek as a young gay African American.

The U.S. Secret Service is charged with protecting the sitting president and the first family.

The one actually responsible for raising the two children is Uncle Peter, an African American slave.

Russell took over as a player coach and so became the first African American coach in the NBA.

Biography Early life and career Gaye is the only daughter of singer Marvin Gaye and his wife Janis Gaye.

Blanche K. Bruce, an African American who during Reconstruction had served as senator from Mississippi, received the post of register at the Treasury Department this post was traditionally given to an African American by Republican presidents.

1929) Huey P. Newton, co founder of the Black Panther Party (murdered) (b.

Etymology The term has been attributed mainly to African American slang, in which it holds various meanings.

He is the first African American to head the agency on a permanent basis.

Americans have elected an African American man named Barack Hussein Obama as their next President.

James Sylvester Scott (February 12, 1885 August 30, 1938) was an African American ragtime composer, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb.

Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (born Pinckney Benton Stewart May 10, 1837 December 21, 1921) was a publisher and politician, a Union Army officer, and the first person of African descent to become governor of a U.S. state.

In fact, African Americans do not fully support him. With his white mother and his African father, he does not fit any African American precedent.

Munroe was predominantly African American with some white ancestry, while Lillie was half Cherokee.

Asian African Legal Consultative Committee, Commission of the European Communities, Inter American Development Bank, Latin American Economic System.

The following intergovernmental organizations were represented Asian African Legal Consultative Committee and Latin American Economic System.

Joplin was born into a musical family of laborers in Northeast Texas, and developed his musical knowledge with the help of local teachers.

Tracy Lynn Curry (born June 10, 1968), primarily known by his stage name The D.O.C., is an American rapper from Dallas, Texas.

After all, it was once widely asserted that an African American without a political machine could not become president.

A non mainstream synagogue of black Jews known as Commandment Keepers, was based in a synagogue at 1 West 123rd Street until 2008.

The following day, Smith won the 200 meters, and fellow African American John Carlos took the bronze medal.

Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 62nd and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the city's first African American mayor.

You know, when I looked at my life, working in China, I grew up in a predominantly African American community.

You see people without neighbors who are African American who were much more likely to say, That would give me a problem.

Some of the early stars on the Opry were Uncle Dave Macon, Roy Acuff and African American harmonica player DeFord Bailey.

Around that time, Kościuszko was assigned a black orderly, Agrippa Hull, whom he would treat as an equal and a friend.

On another occasion, a star was proposed in honor of Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago.

On Saturday, March 9, Kimani Gray, a 16 year old African American boy, died at the hands of two New York City police officers.

Sites of interest Black Heritage Trail The Boston African American National Historic Site is located just north of Boston Common.

As Colombo was approaching the podium to address the crowd, Jerome Johnson, an African American street hustler, approached Colombo.

Early life Samuel George Davis Jr., was born on December 8, 1925, in the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City, as an only child, to Sammy Davis, Sr., an African American entertainer, and Elvera Sanchez, a tap dancer of Afro Cuban descent.

Plot A young African American orphan (Mario Van Peebles) is taken in by the proprietor of a Los Angeles brothel in the 1940s.

)As Senate president pro tempore, in 1871 Pinchback succeeded to the position as acting lieutenant governor upon the death of Oscar Dunn, the first elected African American lieutenant governor of a U.S. state.

Ariana Miyamoto, the child of a Japanese woman and an African American man, will be the first half Japanese contestant in the Miss Universe competition.

Slave narratives A genre of African American literature that developed in the middle of the 19th century is the slave narrative, accounts written by fugitive slaves about their lives in the South and, often, after escaping to freedom.

In fact, at its founding, the NAACP had only one African American on its executive board, Du Bois himself.

I don't think anyone should take anyone's vote for granted, whether it's just if it's a Latino vote, an American vote, an African American vote.

The term Afro Latinos or Afro Latin Americans refer to Latin Americans with Black African ancestry, which is estimated to be between 100 150 million across the region.