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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.
Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.
If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away.
I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
We need to offer Africans the alternatives to terrorist recruitment that their own governments cannot. This includes, yes, jobs.
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries.
As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.
My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.