"The most important musical contributions that America has made to the world have come from black people."
"There's a sense of loss there that some Black Americans cover with derision toward that culture, partially because we know they have something we can never have."
"It's all off the backs of some black people who believed in God and got them through slavery, Jim Crow, the whole Civil Rights Movement."
"Never again will an African-American child be born in America without believing they can be President."
"Before the virus, African-American unemployment reached its lowest level in history."
"What if I told you that there are a group of black Indians that created the largest haven in the US for escaped slaves in the 1700s?"
"Education should be for the future, especially for black kids in America."
"African people in America have one of the world's largest economies."
"The meaning of the music video itself... supposed to represent the meaning of African-American pride." - King Trending
"African Americans built this nation... You built the nation."
"African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded."
"This country was built on the backbones of black America."
"African American workers made historic gains with four hundred and four thousand jobs added last month alone."
"The black American is the most American individual."
"Most of what America have no clue of what's going on in the African-American community. They just don't know what's going on, they don't know how we live, they have no clue of the economic troubles that we are facing as a people."
"This is a district that's 41% African American, and it is critical for us to have a voice."
"We're foundational Black Americans, man. We're FBA."
"Black folk in America have been under oppression, tyranny, terrorized for hundreds of years."
"They knew that the Messiah was going to come out the belly of a black woman in America."
"There are so many stories in Black American history that have not been told."
"Blacks were the engines that drove economic development in this country."
"Black history doesn't start with slavery, black history was interrupted by slavery."
"Foundation of black Americans, we are the culture."
"That's the most compelling narrative in the history of the planet, the African-American journey."
"Robert Church Jr. was one of the distinguished honored and progressive Negro leaders of America."
"African Americans also have a right to rise in American society."
"The origin of its name may come from the former African American slaves who made their way up the Missouri river, during and after the Civil War."
"In 1921, the thriving African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was known as Black Wall Street for its concentration of successful black-owned businesses."
"Barbara Jordan, the first African-American woman in Congress, died this week."
"Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut April 15 1947 playing first base for the Dodgers against the Boston Braves became the first African player in Major League Baseball history breaking the color barrier."
"Soul food is unique to African American culture."
"The term 'woke' came from African-American culture to alert their fellow African-Americans of the discrimination and prejudice they face."
"Every African American who has an opportunity to visit the continent should come because they will find answers to questions they didn't know they had."
"The definition of African American will expand as black immigrants and native-born blacks find common cause"
"And about 25 to 30 African-American marines come out of this [ __ ] place."
"Virginia City actually was the first African-American bar on the west coast."
"He was an actual the very first African owned Bar on the West Coast, all right here in Virginia City, that's awesome."
"Afro-American people are musical, have unique faith traditions, have created all types of formal and communal dances, and have their own art and fashion."
"He was the first African-American to live entirely by his writing, Mr. Hughes."
"The Civic Club dinner coalesced African-American writers and intellectuals together, accelerating the scholarly aspect of the Harlem Renaissance."
"The African-American Exodus carries economic, cultural, and sociopolitical implications."
"Figures like Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Duke Ellington, and Beyonce have used their talents to express the African-American experience."
"Virginia is the first state where Africans were introduced into America in 1619."
"Some chose a separatist approach, creating African-American-only towns."
"I have been in this industry for 20 years and I would absolutely consider myself one of the top African-American celebrity stylists in Nashville."
"We need to understand African-American churches as dynamic institutional spaces."
"I am rooted in the African-American community but I'm not defined by it."
"For African-Americans, hope is upon the land."
"African-Americans asserting birthright citizenship and equal rights before the war."
"Matthew Henson, foundational black American man."
"The history of Alpha Phi Alpha men is extraordinary for it parallels the history of African-American progress in the 20th century and beyond."
"African-American painters and artists experience a very significant lack of mainstream attention."
"I do think for African-American families in the American South it was impossible to not have a story about the violence and terror."
"The bulk of the African American gene pool comes from West and Central Africa."
"The naval yard was a place where african american men and women worked in significant numbers."
"Those of us who now constitute the 42 million African-Americans in the United States are largely descended from that original group of 450,000."
"The Green Book was just the beginning for black car culture."
"Although not always highlighted in the history books, black Americans made huge contributions to car design, racing, and manufacturing."
"The regality often seen in African-American entertainers and musicians."
"Hip-hop is African-American enlightenment."
"...so much of the genius of African-American preaching goes to the grave..."
"Bubba's victory was the first for an African-American driver in a NASCAR national series race since 1963."
"The Boondocks is blacker than any of Kenya Barris' works combined."
"If you're an African-American and you can afford a car, it provides a powerful alternative."
"The Green Book was indispensable to give you some way of finding a place where you could get some rest, get something to eat without being violated."
"The great depression and the new deal represented a watershed moment for African Americans throughout this country and reshaped the 20th century's trajectory of black life in the United States."
"African-Americans aren't just acted upon; we're actors, we are moral agents who make decisions."
"We're living in this new renaissance age for African-American filmmakers."
"It is necessary for us African Americans, for all of us in the black world, to join together to remake the world."
"Can't forget that show, the first African-American teen sitcom."
"Historically black colleges and universities, also known as HBCUs, are schools that were originally established to serve the African-American community."
"Our mission is to open minds and change lives through the celebration and exploration of African American history and culture."
"We have 17 programs throughout February to highlight the humanity and the contributions of African Americans."
"We're left out of history, so we wanted to make sure that not just African-American history, but we're a part of American history and that history must be told."
"We are indeed the nation's oldest Greek letter organization established by African American college women in 1908."
"So African-Americans can actually start to buy houses."
"Over the course of American history, there have been a lot of great injustices brought about upon the black community."
"We African Americans have complicated lives and complex relationships that have nothing to do with white people."
"The rebellions reshaped both Newark and Detroit and marked the beginning of an era of African-American political empowerment."
"He was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice."
"The United States elected their first African-American president in 2008."
"A beacon of representation for African-American culture and film."
"The 1920s witnessed a cultural and social revival of African-American writing, poetry, music, art, and fashion in the neighborhood which has since come to be termed the Harlem Renaissance."
"Compton is sort of a training ground for many blacks."
"If the American Negro had not been present in America, I am convinced the history of the American labor movement would be much more edifying than it is."
"African Americans have fought with courage and distinction in every major war since the Revolutionary War."
"We are like Beyonce and many other black Americans, multi-generationally mixed but culturally we identify as black American."
"Historically black colleges and universities in the United States are a source of great pride for African Americans."
"We need more positive presentations of African-Americans on this media... Who wants to marry the stereotype? We've got to get rid of that through this media."
"I have seen and witnessed now more than ever the amount of African-American men that have come up to me literally like, 'Hey man, you're my hero.'"
"The Tuskegee Airmen showed that African Americans as a group could achieve great things."
"African Americans have fought in every single military engagement since 1776."
"The African-American Literature Book Club is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African-Americans and people of African descent."
"TheGrio.com is a video news community devoted to providing stories and issues that affect and reflect Black America."
"Black Enterprise is the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African-Americans since 1970."
"The Great Migration of more than six million African Americans moving from the South to the North, Midwest and Western portions of the United States also begins around this time."
"There was a nobility to the lives of blacks in America which I didn't always see."
"African-American dollars invested in their own communities also produce self-pride, self-sufficiency, and self-determination."
"African-Americans have a unique way in how we're positioned within the African diaspora."
"The music that was boosted most of all by recording, as it turned out, was that produced by African Americans."
"Black people are a fundamental part of American cultural development."
"African-American paratroopers were quite instrumental in the integration of the armed forces."
"African-Americans built this nation. You're just starting to get real credit for that."
"Foundation of Black Americans built this country."
"Jazz emerges at the end of the 19th century, created by Afro-American musicians under extreme prejudice and racism."
"She was the first African American woman to host her own television show."
"African-American culture history and studies is a part of the American history."
"1865, African Americans became free. Free from what? Free from slavery!"
"Every African American that came to the United States crossed water, so you cross water to enter this museum."
"We have 1.2 million African-Americans under lock and key on a given day in the country today."
"William Grant Still is one of the major African American classical music composers."
"American history is black history."
"If you're black, you need to know who Garrett Morgan is, please. Just for the pride of your people."
"It's a miracle that we black folk have been able to maintain our sanity in the face of the kind of conspiracy perpetrated against us."
"Hip hop began as a strictly African-American culture."
"Now African Americans have more access to media and publishing outlets after they move north."
"The story of America is nothing without the story of the black population."
"I specialize in research on North Carolina history, particularly Eastern North Carolina history, African American history, and I look at the relationship between African Americans and Native Americans in Eastern North Carolina."
"African American is a term applying to a people who are always in flux, always sort of moving from one state to another."
"She was cited as a pioneering example of African American women in STEM."
"NASA noted her historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist."
"America would not be what it is today without African-Americans."
"The good black woman has self-discipline, courteousness, cheerfulness, self-respect, intelligence, cleanliness, and love."
"Whenever US forces drew near, African Americans flocked to their lines to help the war effort, to make a living, most of all, to be free."
"The realization of a black cinema is as central to American culture in the 21st century as was black music to the 20th century."
"We're getting the history that a lot of black people probably don't even realize or know."
"Being a black American and exploring the African side of our ethnicity is awesome."
"The African-American: Many Rivers to Cross, which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted."
"The black family system is reflected by the fact that during the years between slavery and the 1960s, a majority of African-American families had married couples at their core."
"The transformation of African music traditions into African American music traditions occurred principally through the vehicle of the work song."
"It was a foundational black American who created the modern toilet."
"At a time where most plays did not have people singing, it's said that singing and dancing plays were popularized by African-Americans."
"I am very proud to be an African-American here in America."
"Better than any author today, Jesmyn pushes her audience to imagine what it means to grow up African-American in rural modern America."
"That's something that we need more of, black men building."
"The expression in words of the tragic experience of the negro race is to be found in various places."
"We are the sixth oldest independent African-American Baptist Church in the United States of America."
"The black man in America needs to identify himself with his own history in the history of his country."
"Even the earliest traces of black people in America are traceable from Africa."
"The significance of Angela being one of the first African-American women to marry into a European royal family has that sort of connection with Megan Markle."
"The neighborhood where he grew up was predominantly African-American and offered a vibrant culture."
"His portrayal broke new ground in the representation of African-American characters on television."
"Eric Jerome Dickey to me was one of those pioneers that kind of formed the genre of African American literature."
"You literally see the desks and it goes into just what African-American kids and children had as their first school things."
"We talk about the top 100 African Americans who are making breakthroughs in business and creative arts."
"He was one of the first African Americans to be elected to the United States House of Representatives."
"If we're going to deal with inclusion, we have to include the African-American story into the broader narrative of the American experience."
"It's a seismic shift, especially when you consider the numbers we're talking about in terms of the African American population."
"Discover 33 Black American heroes who overcame adversity and shaped our nation's destiny."
"The Harlem Renaissance promoted African-American culture through poetry, music, and literature."
"Foundation of Black Americans built America from the ground up."
"We need positivity, it's two black women."
"It is possible to research African-American ancestry."
"I've come to the place where I am more sympathetic with African Americans who place a lot of emphasis on racism and how it's affecting them in modern society."
"In 2017, reports show the share of blacks ages 25 and older who have completed four years of college or more has roughly doubled from 12% in 1993 to 24% in 2017."
"Prior to integration, there were really rich black people in America."
"There was a black success base that existed in America prior to integration."
"Well-established, well-researched, well-documented history shows some systematic patterns of discrimination against African-Americans."
"As an African-American men and women, we need to have a story that had a good ending, a success story."
"African American culture emerged as a blending of African and American cultural influences."
"It's not too subtle but the montage shows you how things really were back then and how African Americans have had to deal with several indignities."
"Invisible Generals tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals."
"My own ideas about my identity as an African-American have never been rooted in thinking that my African-American identity was less than something."
"When we test African-American men, it's the mitochondrial that comes up African."
"High genetic diversity in the African-American population."
"The bulk of the African-American gene pool comes mainly from Western central Africa."
"African-American political thought provides a commentary on America that is essential to understanding the modern US."
"The black church literally shaped Black Culture."
"I don't know why God blessed me with these opportunities, but I wanna excel not only for myself but for all African Americans."
"Nearly a million African Americans are going to serve in this war against the fascists and the Nazi party."