I reached up to touch my African hat and straighten it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Bail was another example of the sliding scale of apartheid: £250 for whites; £100 for Indians; and £25 for Africans and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“North Africans to like him? You think he cares much for other Africans? The white man is the only master Balewa knows,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Free African Society was the one and only group to step forward and offer its services. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Lembede felt that the Communist Party was dominated by whites, which undermined African self-confidence and initiative. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly a much better set of options could be provided to African Americans—and poor people of all colors—today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In their place were depictions of African history: a prince and princess strolling beside a crystal river; a conclave of black scholars debating in an outdoor forum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

African boxers, like all black athletes and artists, were shackled by the twin handicaps of poverty and racism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With very few exceptions, Africans at the time did not enjoy private tide to land in South Africa but were tenants paying rent annually to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we find two sets of African crops whose wild ancestors occur just south of the Sahara, and which are adapted to summer rains and less seasonal variation in day length. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Our building, owned by Indians, was one of the few places where Africans could rent offices in the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a long and desperate day of travel, they penetrated fifty miles away from the Congo River, and finally, toward evening, they came to a row of round, thatched African houses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, of course, people as distinctive as the Pygmies, living in a place as distinctive as the equatorial African rain forest, were surely isolated enough to develop their own language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Africans might be poor, but we know how to swat flies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t he say that Africans are not ready to rule themselves in Rhodesia? If the British tell him to call himself a castrated monkey, he will.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But a twenty- two-year-old African American boxer from Detroit, named Joe Louis, stood in Schmeling’s way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Let’s take a simple playground rhyme as our material to teach West African musical and cultural values. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I watched a wilted African lily fall from its stalk in the garden. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots more African Americans play for the majors.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“We have come here this far, from the shackles of the old Africans,” read the priest in Creole. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“So when African Americans say Black lives matter, can you see how they aren’t saying that other people’s lives don’t matter?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Birth records are not kept in a very uniform or organized way for Africans, and Winnie found that it was not hard to modify her documents to show that Zindzi was bom a year earlier. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the looks of their gesturing, they would dance an African dance. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, black South Africans outnumbered white South Africans nearly five to one, yet we were divided into different tribes with different languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, Ndebele, Tsonga, Pedi, and more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The problem of controlling mosquitoes and at the same time conserving a fish important in the Central African diet has obviously not been solved satisfactorily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I also met with religious leaders—African, Arab, Asian, Muslim, and non-Muslim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! The little African can speak a little English, huh? Don’t let the massa know, gal. Play dumb as long as you can.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never in my life seen an African typist before, much less a female one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point in his Account he spoke about the Free African Society offering to procure nurses for the sick under the direction of Jones, Allen, and Gray. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

For an African American living in the Deep South in the 1960s, voting was not just a forbidden act, it was a dangerous act. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African Defense Force and police, their chests bedecked with ribbons and medals from days gone by, saluted me and pledged their loyalty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been the only woman, the only African American, in all sorts of rooms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I quietly left, and later discovered that this had not been an isolated incident but part of the largest nationwide raid undertaken in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To give voting rights to African Americans over women was to endorse what Stanton called the “aristocracy of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

NM: Now, you know of course that Africans don’t enjoy the rights demanded in this letter? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So rather than choosing between the rights of women and the rights of African Americans, the American Equal Rights Association adopted a memorial favoring a position of gender and racial unity. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Undeniably, though, one major draw for black audiences was simply seeing fellow African Americans on stage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The news from the African front was disquieting in the extreme. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were trees and fields to the north of the Common and the burying place for Africans. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike white professional boxers, African professional boxers had full-time day jobs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Redemption” resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the effective abandonment of African Americans and all those who had fought for or supported an egalitarian racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These laws operated to create an all-white electorate because they excluded African Americans from the franchise but were not generally applied to whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular form of discrimination altered the destinies of generations of African Americans, including many of the men in my family, limiting their income, their opportunity, and, eventually, their aspirations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For Africans, lunch consisted of boiled mealies, that is, coarse kernels of com. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, for nearly three decades, news stories regarding virtually all street crime have disproportionately featured African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Recent evidence suggests that cattle may have been domesticated independently in North Africa, Southwest Asia, and India, and that all three of those stocks have contributed to modern African cattle breeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A slender, courtly man, with a pencil mustache, he took a genuine interest in my welfare and future, preaching the value and importance of education — for me individually and for Africans in general. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That basic feature of geography thereby contributed heavily to the very different experiences of Native Americans, Africans, and Eurasians in the last 500 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is symbolic of our common African blood. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The PAC echoed the axioms and slogans of that time: Africa for the Africans and a United States of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d seen many examples in his practice, which was made up mostly of working-class African Americans. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When a crime is committed by a black man, it’s mentioned in the first breath: “An African American man was arrested today...” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In Alabama and across the South during the early 1960s, African Americans were denied the most fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was teaching himself how to identify African birds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Africans, he asserted, the engine of change was the African National Congress; its policies were the best way to pursue power in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percentage of incarcerated youths who are African American: 41. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the oldest and most widely popular of these styles are the ones that join European and African musical traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

South African whites began making plans to emigrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shelf held an African sculpture of a human hand holding an egg on the tips of its fingers, as if the egg contained something interesting about to hatch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a soldier from Lyra’s own world, an African. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe from Paris has made a poison that will seem to be a Congolese disease, a mere African death for Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had defended me, protected me, just as my African mother would have done. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By striking, an African worker stood not only to lose his job but his entire livelihood and his right to stay in the area in which he was living. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had chosen traditional dress to emphasize the symbolism that I was a black African walking into a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I despised the conservative politics of Radio Bantu served up by the government-run South African Broadcasting Corporation, I reveled in its music. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuma sold this grinning couple two African hats for thirty bucks apiece. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In the new United States, the Revolution gave white men with property a sense of freedom, while Africans were still enslaved. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was a black woman from the South, a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The aids virus may well have jumped into the human race from African primates, from monkeys and anthropoid apes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s African, and it means “unique” or “unprecedented.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He was a white Afrikaner, a creature of the South African system and mind-set. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in almost thirty years, my picture and my words, and those of all my banned comrades, could freely appear in South African newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand the slavery that brought Africans to the New World, you must begin with the death rate on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I proposed reshaping the Congress Alliance so that the ANC would clearly be seen as the leader, especially on issues directly affecting Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned biology, African history, math, physics and a foreign language. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a sense, Mqhayi’s shift in focus was a mirror of my own mind because I went back and forth between pride in myself as a Xhosa and a feeling of kinship with other Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English-speaking woman turned to me and said, “Thank you, John” — John being the name whites used to address any African whose name they did not know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percentage of African American youths who do their time in an adult prison: 58. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Barack’s rowdy Hawaiian high school guy posse mingled happily with a handful of his Kenyan relatives, who wore brightly colored East African hats. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To put the matter starkly: the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neither African American men nor white women were granted the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This monument is in honor of the South African War, ninety years ago, more or less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Male advocates who had once been their allies told the women to support the Fifteenth Amendment and wait until African American men secured their rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, nationwide, the rate of incarceration for African Americans convicted of drug offenses dwarfs the rate of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The central issue was: Did an election in which only whites could participate make any difference to Africans? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On many of the sugar islands, Africans created similar dances in which people spin, jump, and seem to menace each other, then, just on the beat, click sticks and twirl away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed the stories and parables and supposed that white men had a point: Talk of salvation could give an African ideas. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I believed that it was an undiluted African nationalism, not Marxism or multiracialism, that would liberate us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just said, “Yeah, I'm an African goddess.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Tell me, if you can, a sadder irony than that St. Augustine, Florida—a city named for the black African saint who saved Catholicism from heresy—was recently the scene of bloody race riots. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those Africans they brought over here as slaves could fly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images of South Africans going to the polls that day are burned in my memory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sandblasters have been here, the skylight people; inside, the benjamina trees and tropical climbers have taken over, ousting the mangy African violets once nurtured on kitchen windowsills. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true, of course, that some large African animals have occasionally been tamed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For instance, why weren’t Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who decimated, subjugated, or exterminated Europeans and Asians? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some had businesses, and some owned plantations that were worked by enslaved Africans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Kelvin turned to a lady who wore an African- print dress and a matching cloth wrapped around her head. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that day, as I have on so many other days, that I was simply the sum of all those African patriots who had gone before me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A National Law Journal survey from the time found that in large firms African Americans made up not quite 3 percent of all associates and less than 1 percent of all partners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead of in Homo erectus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While I normally did not give to African beggars, I felt the urge to give this woman money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but one of the people arrested were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Demand for labor was high, and Johannesburg became a magnet for Africans from the countryside seeking work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not discuss substantive issues, so much as history and South African culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the Eastern Mediterranean that African, Asian, and European civilizations, including the great cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, met and cross-fertilized in a vigorous and heady confrontation of prejudices, languages, ideas and gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bantustans, or reserves as they were also known, would be separate ethnic enclaves or homelands for all African citizens. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the evidence derived from plant names in modern African languages permits us to glimpse the existence of three languages being spoken in Africa thousands of years ago: ancestral Nilo-Saharan, ancestral Niger-Congo, and ancestral Afroasiatic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Mecca is a machine, crafted to capture and concentrate the dark energy of all African peoples and inject it directly into the student body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They suffered the rebukes of their circle and in midnight whispers characterized their offspring as the union of an African goddess and a pale mortal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When the men hauling victims to Bush Hill reported the appalling conditions there, the Free African Society sent nurses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It had a steel divider running along the center, segregating the white prisoners from the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old African symbol for a spider’s web, Nana had said. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There he became the first African American to achieve an international reputation as a concert singer. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

More than four million workers stayed home in what was the largest political strike in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a white electorate indoctrinated with the idea of the black threat, ignorant of African ideas and policies, could support the monstrous racist philosophy of the National Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s proud of her African self, and I’m down with that. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Denying African Americans citizenship was deemed essential to the formation of the original union. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All whites undergo compulsory military training, but no such training was given to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Templeton had separate African maids for her cooking, cleaning, and laundry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most black South African parents, when it came to discipline my mom was old school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see there was any need for them to be so African about it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around as people take seats in our segregated sections—South Asian, African American, Arab, Southeast Asian. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

An American white ambassador in one African country was Africa’s most respected American ambassador: I’m glad to say that this was told to me by one ranking African leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had long argued that Communist literature was, for the most part, dull, esoteric, and Western-centered, but ought to be simple, clear, and relevant to the African masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I started doing my own research and talking to the African American girls at school, engaging in conversations with them at lunch. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This law — known as the Ghetto Act — was a grave insult to the Indian community and anticipated the Group Areas Act, which would eventually circumscribe the freedom of all South Africans of color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The North was overwhelmingly Republican and, while Republicans were ambivalent about equality for African Americans, they were far more inclined to adopt and implement racial justice reforms than their Democratic counterparts below the Mason-Dixon line. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Bantu Authorities Act abolished the Natives Representative Council, the one indirect forum of national representation for Africans, and replaced it with a hierarchical system of tribal chiefs appointed by the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the percussion instruments layer on another set of patterns, African style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic that would continue to prove successful for generations to come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, we also saw local South African films with black stars whom we all knew from the old days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in South African history, an exclusively Afrikaner party led the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The community invests in John so that he can one day return and teach African American children who are barred from attending the public school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Vivian was African American, and I was the only white person in the house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We had been told over and over again by the principal, Dr. Alexander Kerr, and Professors Jabavu and Matthews how, as graduates of Fort Hare, we were the African elite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All told, there were one hundred five Africans, twenty-one Indians, twenty-three whites, and seven Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that European American “civilization” is superior to those of the American Indians and of the Africans who were enslaved for economic gain is called white supremacy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If the virus had been noticed earlier, it might have been named Kinshasa Highway, in honor of the fact that it passed along the Kinshasa Highway during its emergence from the African forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their most dramatic — and naive — promise was that liberation would be achieved by the end of 1963, and they urged Africans to ready themselves for that historic hour. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the African languages, Zulu has the largest number of native speakers, but we couldn’t keep that without also having Xhosa and Tswana and Ndebele. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I saw this as a defensive maneuver, for if African states decided to support the PAC, a small and weak organization could suddenly become a large and potent one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words had imbued millions of South Africans and people around the world with the hope that a new South Africa was about to be born. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I accused the National Party of fanning race hatred between Coloureds and Africans in the Cape by distributing an inflammatory comic book that said the ANC’s slogan was “Kill a Coloured, kill a farmer.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath a fuzzy Xeroxed photo of what appeared to be a chicken was a description of a missing African grey parrot that had flown out of the store when a customer opened the door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now he saw that there were six of them—five white men and one African American woman. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Of the five African groups, representatives of many populations of blacks and whites are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, those millions of African Americans who had not migrated became subject to increased discrimination and acts of terror on the part of white southerners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The African in me refused to be told Africa was not my home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boubacar had often invited her to visit his class, a seminar on contemporary African issues. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Almost all popular music is heavily influenced by both African and European traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, many whites during the Jim Crow era sincerely believed that African Americans were inferior, and that segregation was a sensible system for managing a society comprised of fundamentally different and unequal people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She thought of the picking, how it raced down the furrows at harvest, the African bodies working as one, as fast as their strength permitted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I should explain here that I am one of two brothers - and that my elder brother, Leonard, was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luma became a regular customer at Talars, and each time she visited she again encountered the strange sight of African and Middle Eastern dress on the streets. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A heavyset African American girl sat in the RV’s driver seat, clutching the wheel tightly and staring straight ahead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An argument ensued and in the middle of it, one of the African secretaries turned to me and said, “Sir, can you speak English?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s, Madam C. J. Walker, an African American, became a millionaire by inventing and marketing hair care products to black women. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

What those from the Deep South wanted was open-ended access to African imports to stock their plantations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In 1921, Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along became the first musical comedy written by African-Americans and starring African- Americans to run successfully on Broadway. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If I majored in African and African-American studies, what would I do upon graduation? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Amaka used to play with us when I first came here, but now she spends her time listening to African music and dreaming unrealistic dreams.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

African- Americans could now register to vote without undergoing ridiculous qualification games, taking difficult exams, experiencing Klan intimidation, and paying “blacks only” poll taxes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They kill more people each year than do any other African mammals, including even lions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

African American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, the most widely read black publication, and the Pittsburgh Courier continually published editorials and cartoons showing the great advantages of moving from the South to the North. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This was as new to them as it was to me, for I was the only African student in the law faculty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Industrialization has played a large role in introducing the urban African to the perceptions of status common to white society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again—forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last caste system, not simply good behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Members of the newly formed all-black Delta Sigma Theta sorority of Howard College also joined the procession, knowing that if they didn’t stand up for their rights, African American women would undoubtedly be left behind. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Those African herders thereby achieved a huge advantage over African hunter-gatherers and quickly displaced them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For an African, whether you were sent to the Caribbean or South America, you were now part of the sugar machine. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Doctors’ Pact precipitated a series of nonracial, antigovernment campaigns around the country, which sought to bring together Africans and Indians in the freedom struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad had picked up a very African sense of humor during his years in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures of the mob reminded me of news footage from some besieged African capital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a middle-class businessman who probably had little contact with Africans, and feared them in the same way as whites did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then if the African or Asian or South American governments could make more money from tourists going to visit their forests than they could from selling the timber, the future would be much brighter. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the Europeans took out the insides of an African woman and then stuffed and exhibited her all over Europe?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He opened South African beaches to people of all colors, and stated that the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act would soon be repealed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We...we could be friends, you know,” said Coraline.“We could be rare specimens of an exotic breed of African dancing elephants,” said the cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Scott took refuge with us in Orlando and brought along an African priest named Dlamini, who also had a wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June 1956, in the monthly journal Liberation, I pointed out that the charter endorsed private enterprise and would allow capitalism to flourish among Africans for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mass action was perilous in South Africa, where it was a criminal offense for an African to strike, and where the rights of free speech and movement were unmercifully curtailed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the first South African expedition ever to be granted a permit to climb Everest, a mixed-race group that aspired to put the first black person on the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was still no specific mention of African American women, who, along with African American men, would continue to be disenfranchised by state laws, especially in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, the South African government began making minor reforms in an attempt to quell international protest over the atrocities and human rights abuses of apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He expressed himself in the dietary laws, which favored native African foods—the yam, the cassava—and prohibited the consumption of swine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

How is it different from Grandfather God sending the African children to hell for being born too far from a Baptist Church? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prior to his Brazil expedition, Teddy went on an African safari with his son Kermit, pictured here, and brought back specimens for the National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

One or two South African gold mines reach to a depth of two miles, but most mines on Earth go no more than about a quarter of a mile beneath the surface. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But Homo sapiens, whose body was adapted to living in the African savannah rather than in the lands of snow and ice, devised ingenious solutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“African bugs, Leah. Creatures fashioned by God for the purpose of serving African plants. Look at this thing. How would it know what to do with a Kentucky Wonder bean?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the debate was framed as an issue of women’s rights versus African American rights, the arguments used by some female suffragists became increasingly elitist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had a black basalt relief figure of an African slave in chains, bent down on one knee. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing spatial mismatch of jobs had a profound impact on African Americans trapped in ghettos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The quiet strength of the Indian community shook the South African government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I hope to be able to indicate,” I explained, “that this case is a trial of the aspirations of the African people, and because of that I thought it proper to conduct my own defense.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two smartest kids in my kindergarten class were Teddy, a Korean American boy, and Chiaka, an African American girl, who both would remain at the top of the class for years to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Rumor swells daily that the Governor will proclaim the freedom of the Africans from bondage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Nobel Peace Prize had a special meaning to me because of its involvement with South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophiatown was one of the few places in the Transvaal where Africans had been able to buy stands, or plots, prior to the 1923 Urban Areas Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up late, paints her nails, lies in the sun, and stares at pictures of African landscapes in a big coffee-table book. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Lembede said that Africa was a black man’s continent, and it was up to Africans to reassert themselves and reclaim what was rightfully theirs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an African American with roots in Long Beach, he saw the value of supporting our unique family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ruling class paid African labor a subsistence wage and then added value to the cost of the goods, which they retained for themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the state delegations, which, for fear of upsetting the white majority, did not include African American members. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In that way, my commitment to my people, to the millions of South Africans I would never know or meet, was at the expense of the people I knew best and loved most. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded at Cora and continued his stroll among his Africans as he shared his improvements. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who introduced him to the African American karate master. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Most of them were dubbed into African languages. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have been in these prisons and I know how gross is the discrimination, even behind the prison wall, against Africans... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lecture is on African American history, and the professor is someone I’ve read about online. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But now—now—African kings and heroes have come into the world, out of the past, the past that can now be put to the uses of power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The leadership told the Illinois delegation to follow Paul’s request and have Wells-Barnett march with the other African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It stars a noble African queen who tries to defend her tribe from advancing slave traders. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were also concerned about the idea of nationalization, insisting that the ANC and the Freedom Charter supported blanket nationalization for the South African economy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to ignore the cheers across the way from the Carter fans, cheers that sounded to him “like a bunch of African natives,” and instead yelled as loud as he possibly could. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie always sang her daddy’s African words, but you knew by the wailing and moaning that they meant death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Gabourey’s father is from Senegal, and she said she loves it when black women wear their hair in traditional African styles. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Afrikaner was traditionally hostile to Africans learning English, for English was a foreign tongue to the Afrikaner and the language of emancipation to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I spoke African languages and loved speaking them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I was borned here, chile. I tolt you my mama was a African like you be, but they sold her off when I was ’bout your age.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Private industries throughout the country made millions of dollars with free convict labor, while thousands of African Americans died in horrific work conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In his church recitals he broke with tradition and featured classical songs by European composers along with traditional African American spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the lifestyle at that time, the best-preserved evidence comes from stone artifacts and prey bones accumulated at southern African sites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Saints. Angels. They’re from the Free African Society, God bless them. If one is the Eliza you seek, you might find her yet. They had several other homes to visit.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the most eloquent example of what African boxers could achieve if given the opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African sense of immediate family is far different from that of the European or Westerner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew of the phenomenon called the Bradley effect, named for an African American candidate, Tom Bradley, who’d run for governor in California in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere deep in that crowd was a South African mercenary pilot who owned a radio. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, all of the sudden in New York City, my roommates were ironically African American, Caucasian, and Asian, just like my best friends back in elementary school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He spent twenty-seven years in a South African prison. Twenty-seven years, Noah! A couple of weeks won’t hurt me.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

In Idaho, the two rarely saw an African American. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is precisely because we, as a nation, have not cared much about African Americans that we have allowed our criminal justice system to create a new racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She knew the African girl was probably admiring her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it that no African in the history of this country has ever had the honor of being tried by his own kith and kin, by his own flesh and blood? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening, in Pretoria Local, before lights were out, the jail would echo to African prisoners singing freedom songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her African friends all had jobs, and college students got jobs all the time with no experience. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before I had returned to my cell, I reminded him of our complaint that African prisoners did not receive bread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although many poor African Americans rejected the philosophies, tactics, and strategies of the black elite, ultimately moral uplift ideology became the new common sense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our preparations worried the government; four days before the election, the state ruled that a gathering of more than ten Africans in any urban area was illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Their children were deeply involved and inspired by their parents’ mission to encourage self-reliance and uphold a sense of empowerment for people of the African Diaspora. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of them had parents who were lawyers or doctors and seemed to know one another through an African American social club called Jack and Jill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tonight I am reaching out to every single South African, black and white, from the very depths of my being. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She supported suffrage as a means of improving the working conditions of children and African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘But - you remember those African women,’ I said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The millions of Africans taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If he’s finally dead now and laid to rest in some African voodoo cemetery, or worse yet eaten up by the wild animals, well, amen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

African American women faced an even tougher road to equality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In a neighboring village, there was an African dance-hall known as Ntselamanzi, which catered to the cream of local black society and was off-limits to undergraduates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma pointed at a building next to the school, the Institute of African Studies, where her office was and where she taught most of her classes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Incidents like this happened many times, and I was reassured when I saw that we had the loyalty of many African policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several tug at the stitching upon their shirts—Liberty to Slaves—which they believed talismanic, as the inscriptions of the African mallams are said to protect against all injury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Arden Jones is an African American foil fencer who won individual silver at the national championship, but wasn’t able to lead the USA team to glory at the International Grand Prix. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I recall once traveling from Fort Hare to Umtata by train, riding in the African compartment, which were the only seats open to blacks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For walking in the bush, he wears a baseball cap, a black T-shirt, shorts, a curved African knife at his belt, and scorched, melted green sneakers— dried too many times over campfires. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But before that happened, I got my African adventure all right. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Afrikaner has always been unenthusiastic about education for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was weaving the veterans’ personal stories into the complex, divisive web of politics and protests in America, more than a million refugees poured into Europe from Middle Eastern and African countries. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The enterprising African boy whose fine leather boots she wore would have been chained belowdecks, swabbing his body in his own filth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During the Reconstruction era, African Americans began to serve on juries in the South for the first time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the arguments and the very language were identical, except that Jackson used Christianity to justify enslavement of the Africans, while the African used Islam to justify enslavement of Christians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Volunteers from the Free African Society were the first to enter the homes of most fever victims. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the current era, white Americans are often eager to embrace token or exceptional African Americans, particularly when they go out of their way not to talk about race or racial inequality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In short, Africans should be trained to be menial workers, to be in a position of perpetual subordination to the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reported that the Africans lived like kings, even wearing the fabrics of royalty: velvet, damask, and brocade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the remaining 38, 20 were of African and 18 of European blood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or Lincoln Park Zoo, with African penguins striped black and white. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Two Illinois delegates—both white—offered to march with Wells-Barnett in the African American section. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were fifty-two volunteers in all, both Africans and Indians, and a crowd of several hundred enthusiastic spectators and journalists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the minister’s office, we found some African secretaries in the reception area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solo Norwegian, the Taiwanese, and especially the South Africans were frequent topics of discussion in Hall’s mess tent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

During the continuing Great Migration of African Americans from the South, Chicago had already received more blacks than any other northern city, a total that would grow to more than twenty-five thousand. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We were given dedicated teachers, first Mr. Martinez and then Mr. Bennett, both gentle and good-humored African American men, both keenly focused on what their students had to say. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But in his speeches, he tried to convince audiences that giving African Americans the rights of citizenship would undermine white society and safety. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the apartheid mind-set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man’s job. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our African first names became our American middle names. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africans were at the heart of this great change in the economy, indeed in the lives of people throughout the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Two people went to the principal’s office, one was African American and the other was Hispanic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She retained the names of most of the things she looked at Xenopus laevis, African clawed frog. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In early January, an African American woman had asked if she could participate in the parade, and Alice Paul assured her that she was welcome. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those stopped and searched were racial minorities, and more than half were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t the last time I’d see the Africans’ almost fanatic expression of their political emotions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first place I’d lived that was Western, not African, and I felt I was entering a new world whose rules were not yet clear to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I picked her up where she was staying in town, and took her to an Indian restaurant near my office, one of the few places that served Africans and where I frequendy ate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samurai warriors, Apache warriors, African warriors, medieval warriors. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amid all this a remarkable meeting took place at the Free African Society on Fifth Street, just south of Walnut. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Listen here. Don’t you be fretting for us. You stop this crying, you just riling that African boy up, honey. You don’t wanna make things no worser for him, do you?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But if the Interbreeding Theory is right, there might well be genetic differences between Africans, Europeans and Asians that go back hundreds of thousands of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally two African women in flowing, colourful robes came out, laughing like they’d just been at the fun fair. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there were African drummers assembling in Union Square. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"First days are hard," she scolds, her African accent just as pronounced as my Indian one. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Freemen informed on their African brothers and sisters, comparing the descriptions of runaways in the gazettes with the furtive creatures slinking around the colored churches, saloons, and meeting houses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was a young, neatly groomed African American man with short hair—clean-shaven, medium frame and build—wearing bright, clean prison whites. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Other white women didn’t think the African American women belonged in the parade at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At college, Joy quickly fell in with the OASATAU, the very long acronym for a very young group, the Organization of African and African-American Students at the American University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of shopping for African violets, we shopped for Cinnabons and licked icing from each other’s fingers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After lunch, His Excellency spoke to the guests of his American encounters with discrimination, and of friendships he had made with Afro- Americans, and he reaffirmed the bonds between Africans and Afro-Americans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a curious thing to realize, the in-betweenness one feels being African American in Africa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Perkins High School—now integrated, but still the pride of the African American community. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The politics of respectability made sense to many black reformers during the Jim Crow era, since African Americans had no vote, could not change policy, and lived under the constant threat of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That’s basically what I was doing—the South African version of that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Afrikaners celebrate December 16 as the triumph of the Afrikaner over the African and the demonstration that God was on their side; while Africans mourned this day of the massacre of their people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of a friend’s truck, covered with manioc leaves, we left Stanleyville late at night and crossed over into the Central African Republic near Bangassou. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A multicultural interpretation of US history emphasizes only the “contributions” of groups that were ignored in the dominant origin myth, including Indigenous peoples, women, African Americans, and immigrants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I thought my hair looked “African,” and I was proud of it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

So in an attempt at compromise, Paul suggested that the African American suffragists march as a bloc at the back of the parade. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think he had one. He was one of those flying African children. They must all be dead a long time now.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike most colonists, however, who believed that the Africans and Amerindians were “rough, wild people, naked, with no God or religious service,” Maria embraced their customs and lore. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“This is proof that Richard was an African in his past life,” Miss Adebayo said, before blowing her nose into a napkin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was an all too typical South African story. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with multicolored rugs, brown-and-black African masks, and statues of men and women in weird sexual positions. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Its constitution denounced racialism, its presidents had been from different tribal groups, and it preached the goal of Africans as full citizens of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A leading historian of Africa characterized Africans as inward looking and lacking Europeans’ drive for expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accepted Communists as their friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Population Registration Act labeled all South Africans by race, making color the single most important arbiter of individuals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those advocating emancipation, then, need to confront the intractable dilemma posed by the sheer size of an African population that, once freed, must be removed to some other location. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The same drug that had been considered fearsome twenty years earlier, when associated with African Americans and Latinos, was refashioned as a relatively harmless drug when associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

April 6 is the day white South Africans annually commemorate as the founding of their country — and Africans revile as the beginning of three hundred years of enslavement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom wore her traditional, vividly patterned African dresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally a chevron of Impala jets left a smoke trail of the black, red, green, blue, white, and gold of the new South African flag. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving Sidelsky, I had investigated a number of white firms — there were, of course, no African law firms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the woman and swored to myself shotguns and chains or not, I was gonna figure a way to get her and these Africans out of here! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that the action that he had called for was in fact a noble one; he believed that Africans should help their Indian brothers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the ministers, a heavyset African American man dressed in a dark suit with a large cross around his neck, walked over to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When African Americans began to exercise their right to vote in the 1970s, there was deep concern among some prosecutors and judges about how the racial demographics in some counties would complicate their reelections. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The diet for white detainees was far superior to that for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time our church served as a concert hall, a public auditorium, and the gathering place for most African- American social events. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The award was a tribute to all South Africans and especially to those who had fought in the struggle; I would accept the award on their behalf. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My imagination was fired by the glory of these African warriors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some women accepted the Fourteenth Amendment as a step toward democracy for African American men, assuming that women’s rights would follow. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was in a poor rural county in Alabama after another trip to pull records in a death penalty case when I was invited to speak at a small African American church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They worshiped in Christian churches, in ceremonies that honored African gods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The mountain displayed a constantly changing face of weather and shadow, rain and sun, a spectacle of African light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most unexpected feature of this list of African domestic animals is again a negative one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

African American boys made up less than 30 percent of Oakland’s underage population but accounted for nearly 75 percent of all juvenile arrests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The African general and the Gallivespian came in: King Ogunwe in a clean uniform, with a wound on his temple freshly dressed, and Lord Roke gliding swiftly to the table astride his blue hawk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

About one third of South American Indians, Black discovered, have identical or near-identical HLA profiles; for Africans the figure is one in two hundred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the school library that day, I joined a circle of twenty-two Harper students—all African American, mostly juniors and seniors—who were seated in chairs and on couches, dressed in khakis and collared shirts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“An African American? Oh, evil! But then it’s this trans kid wearing a skirt. What?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Without the collaboration of both the Caucasians and the African Americans they would not have won the battle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rosa Parks is an African American woman who was living in the segregated South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, he embarked on a number of prolonged trips to Mecca and the newly independent African states through the good offices of the representatives of the Arab League in the United States. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an effort to lure Indians and Coloureds into the system, and divide them from Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will never be known exactly how many African Americans were lynched in 1919 or in the years preceding or following that pivotal year. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dingane, the half brother of Shaka, then ruled the most powerful African state that ever existed south of the Limpopo River. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Gandhi was working for Balasumdaram, the South Africans passed a new law designed to make life difficult for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

An African child is bom in an Africans Only hospital, taken home in an Africans Only bus, lives in an Africans Only area, and attends Africans Only schools, if he attends school at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reacted instantly, for we felt as though we were seeing a brother African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were excluded, but not unaffected: the defeat of the National Party would be in our interest and that of all Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African music is often about the aspirations of the African people, and it can ignite the political resolve of those who might otherwise be indifferent to politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What money an African boxer earned was typically used on food, rent, clothing, and whatever was left went to boxing equipment and training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baron dragged and carried McCormick to a nearby hut, sat him up on a cot, and gave him a large transfusion of blood serum from Africans who had survived Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Klerk, a friend of mine, informed me that the three South African climbers and Charlotte Noble, their team’s doctor, had resigned from the expedition before even getting to the base of the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

An avowed critic of his government’s policies of apartheid, especially in sports, he was typical of South African liberals, who from time to time found themselves torn between conscience and patriotism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon, especially with so much labor needed for the tobacco fields, Africans were brought to Virginia and sold as slaves for fife. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The victims, all African Americans, had welcomed an unemployed twenty-one-year-old white man—a stranger to them all—into their Bible study group. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most important, the government had imposed Muslim law on the whole country, even though we black Africans of the south weren’t Muslim. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1992, the stakes again felt high: Another African American candidate, Carol Moseley Braun, had surprised everyone by narrowly winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her father, Salvador, is a santeria priest, an unassuming, soft-spoken man, black as the blackest Africans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps—this is only a guess—Ebola traveled to Asia inside wild African animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the promise behind their grand titles—Children of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origin of Civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were camphor trees and teaks and African cedars and red stinkwood trees, and here and there a dark green cloud of leaves mushroomed above the forest canopy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is generally believed that aids came originally from African primates, from monkeys and apes, and that it somehow jumped out of these animals into the human race. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mysterious death sixteen days later raised charges by blacks that he had been cold-bloodedly murdered by the South African police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The matrics, what South Africans call seniors, would hang out on the quad. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because he did not have that familiar superiority of English people who thought they understood Africans better than Africans understood themselves and, instead, had an endearing uncertainty about him—almost a shyness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As an African American woman, with three young children who will never know a world in which a black man could not be president of the United States, I was beyond thrilled on election night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony didn’t see the amendment as progress for African American men; she saw it as “an outrage against women.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, granting African American men the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We already have examples in South African history of the results of war. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the tradition established by Roland Hayes and other African American concert vocalists, she concluded each of her programs with a group of spirituals that often moved her audiences to tears. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But the day before we were to meet, the South African government took a step that sabotaged whatever goodwill had been engendered by the Commonwealth visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, eventually, they permitted me to stay, and I discovered the great African patriots who fought against Western domination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if civil rights organizations and African American leaders in the 1940s had not placed Jim Crow segregation at the forefront of their racial justice agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Africans were the true global citizens—adjusting to a new land, a new religion, even to other Africans they would never have met in their homelands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Neil’s brother, an African Methodist- Episcopal reverend from Albany, Georgia, was going to marry them in the backyard under the myrtle trees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could read more about myself in the European, Asian, and African press. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These diseases are also shared with, or similar to the diseases of, our closest wild relatives, the African great apes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, he faced the same barriers of racial prejudice that confronted all African American artists of the time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Its aim was to agitate for a national constitutional convention for all South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African members of the expedition, who liked termites, had pushed Gene to try them, too, and finally he did. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quaint hideaway in a round chamber, stocked with shining rows of Tusker-beer bottles and French aperitifs and obscure African brandies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had moved from a more nationalistic, all-encompassing theme of African unity to a more parochial one addressed to the Xhosa people, of whom he was one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Africans are returning to Islam and other indigenous religions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only are African Americans far more likely to be labeled criminals, they are also more strongly affected by the stigma of a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all that is cool, but I want my common African blood in my common African veins,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had numerous suspicions about the accuracy of the African and ship scenes but was an authority in this room. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a liberal firm and one of the few that charged Africans on a reasonable scale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asserted that the Communists were more dangerous now that they were working underground, and that Indian economic interests were in conflict with those of Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ridiculous that Africans don’t value our natural hair in Africa,” Yagazie said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Carol Moseley Braun also won decisively, becoming the first African American woman ever to hold a Senate seat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The prospect of a united front between Africans and Indians, between moderates and radicals, greatly worried them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African violets alone took three trips, and the briskets took two. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet another notable difference between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that many African Americans seem to support the current system of control, while most believe the same could not be said of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His meaning was that Africans did not and would not have any opportunities, therefore, why educate them? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make for the top of the cliff,” said the dragonfly rider, “and give yourself up to the Africans. They’re your best hope.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His view was that law was a social science and that women and Africans were not disciplined enough to master its intricacies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked my African hat and called it “cute.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked His own socks off with the African parasites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such deprivation was not uncommon among Africans in everyday life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the African areas were municipal townships containing matchbox houses for which the residents paid rent to the Johannesburg City Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Is that directly from your African background? Maybe from the We-Be tribe?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The same factors that molded Europeans’ encounters with Africans molded their encounters with Native Americans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother stands alone by the deep end, sari-clad under the red monsoon umbrella she carries as portable shade from the West African sun. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1919 would see a rise in action by African Americans, fighting for equality in the face of widespread racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Other social issues also arise because Mrs. Lacks was an African American Woman. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the first place, I said, the Bantu Authorities was impractical, because more and more Africans were moving out of the rural homelands to the cities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, she might have been African American. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Aunt Theodosia was going on about her African adventures, leading up to the time King Leopold of Belgium presented her with a medal. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I affirmed that I was “a loyal and disciplined member of the African National Congress.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, every day, the black African heads of state should be receiving direct accounts of the latest developments in the American black man’s straggles—instead of the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A seemingly colorblind system has emerged that locks millions of African Americans into a permanent undercaste, and it appears that those who are trapped within it could have avoided it simply by not committing crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She handed out medicine to any of the local Africans, mostly fishermen, who were sick. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There waren’t no sense in going back to the stable to try and free her and them Africans. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

South African law does not guarantee a defendant the right to legal representation, and thousands upon thousands of indigent men and women went to prison every year for lack of such representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were beneath animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African government was under growing international pressure, as nations all across the globe began to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not find, between herself and the African statuette, or totem pole, on which he gazed with such melancholy wonder, any point of contact. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I settled into his pillow, my head next to his, and we watched his African dwarf frog swim back and forth from the bottom to the top of the tank. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Peering cautiously into the night, Anyango, with his sharp African eyes, saw the third lion—the one who had visited Hugo and me—following his two companions behind the tents. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jared: I’m just sick of people suggesting African Americans still have it so hard these days. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The media frenzy the campaign inspired simply could not have come at a worse time for African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Phillips and other Republican leaders encouraged women to be patient and wait until African American men secured their right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everything was going okay until she turned around from the stove and asked why I was wearing my African hat at her table. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The Innuit are an aboriginal people historically mistreated by a white settler population; there were parallels between the plights of black South Africans and the Innuit people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 9, 1864, two African American men carried large bundles of petition rolls into the Senate chamber. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His shop sold all kinds of stuff, from hair-care products to body oils to bootleg clothes to African statues. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He did not treat our employers with exaggerated courtesy, and often chided them for their treatment of Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the Dutch and Portuguese battled to control Pernambuco, many Africans escaped and created a kingdom of their own called Palmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some African tribes in West and Central Africa love to eat chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In general, Coloureds and Indians received a slightly better diet than Africans, but it was not much of a distinction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That means expanding the fields by the river. We’ll need fresh Africans for that—they know rice so well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

To enhance the drama of the proceedings, the state had made arrangements for a live broadcast of Yutar’s speech on the South African Broadcasting System. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more people entered the room: a gum-chewing African American teenage girl wearing a lavender sweat suit, followed by a thirty-year-old well-dressed white guy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were light; they were molten, changing gold—Chinese lion dancers, African lion dancers in midstep. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the rainy season from July to October, heavy rains fall in the central African highlands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

That means we cannot hear the voices of the Africans directly. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But Heinrich was also a problematic figure, for his legacy included one of the most vicious attacks by European colonists on Africans, Germany’s 1904 war of extermination against the Hereros. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government had always utilized divide-and-rule tactics when dealing with Africans and depended on the strength of ethnic divisions among the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thoughtful African American man in a three-piece suit and a bow tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Watching those shows, I realized that whenever black people were on screen speaking in African languages, they felt familiar to me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But amaMfengu were an industrious people, and because of their contact with Europeans, they were often more educated and “Western” than other Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wrong of Okeoma to assume that he was one of those Englishmen who did not give the African the benefit of an equal intelligence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d been a young man in the 1940s when he first joined the African National Congress and began boldly challenging the all-white South African government and its entrenched racist policies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the authorities supplied the detainees with what they called an Improved Diet: Africans received bread, while Indians and Coloureds received the same food provided to white prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to get a move on. Don’t want to miss the African dance performance. It’s the best part of the festival.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And indeed, it was when the enslaved Africans began to speak—in words and in actions—when Europeans began to see them as human, that the Age of Sugar also became the Age of Freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Senghor sensed my uneasiness, for he said, “Mandela, do not worry, the French here identify themselves completely with our African aspirations.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I argue that the shame and stigma of the “prison label” are, in many respects, more damaging to the African American community than the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had begun, though, to think about some herbs, potent manhood herbs he remembered reading about somewhere, which African men took. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Accounts of African empires and the miracles of the Egyptian slaves who had erected pyramids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“When my uncle was twelve he went totally bald after getting too close to an African lighting bird nest during his tour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone thought the group should support the rights of both African Americans and women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

To prove my point, I had taken Liu’s essay and rewritten it for an African audience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This sent a clear message to lawmakers and future politicians and reestablished a feeling that seemed to have been lost when Harold Washington died: The African American vote mattered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She would have wrapped us up in her green, purple, and orange African print dress and begged our forgiveness for having left us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in South African history, the black majority would go to the polls to elect their own leaders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In your land, how many black people think about it that South and Central and North America contain over eighty million people of African descent?” he asked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Close to the shop door was a tiny African holding a slender gray horse by the bridle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor can I. Nor can many Africans in this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others assumed that Wells-Barnett had resigned herself to joining the other African Americans at the back of the line. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had teased Boubacar about Francophone Africans, how battered their minds were by the French and how thin-skinned they had become, too aware of European slights, and yet too enamored of Europeanness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The actual source of the yellow fever virus—tree-dwelling monkeys in African and American rain forests—was not identified until 1929. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I had heard reports of the bravery of Patrick “Terror” Lekota, a leader of the South African Students’ Organization, and sent him a note of welcome to Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat dripping down his face, covered in soot foot to crown, blacker than an African devil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Polyrhythm, as it has since been dubbed, had long existed in African tribal drumming, improvised on the spot by highly intuitive, skillful players, often in various states of trance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

These special challenges served to make African American women leaders more determined than ever to pursue their cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He held her as far away as the chains would go then said something to her in African. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled it away and said, “You make sure your ma tell Hope her pa full-blood African. And he say he use to be a king. And I believe him.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Americans of mixed ethnicity will become the majority in the near future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi, explained his outrage at the fate that has befallen African Americans in the post-civil rights era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As sociologist Bruce Western has shown, the notion that the 1990s—the Clinton years—were good times for African Americans, and that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be ashamed of our African past. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun occasionally stopped there for lunch, and was eating there that day when he saw an exceptionally tall African American woman enter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In that study, 60 percent of viewers who saw a story with no image falsely recalled seeing one, and 70 percent of those viewers believed the perpetrator to be African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Among Africans, the PAC had captured the spotlight at Sharpeville in a way that far exceeded their influence as an organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On October 14, 1996, the following message was posted on the Internet as part of a South African discussion forum about Everest: I am a Sherpa orphan. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next-to-last set of African crops arose from wild ancestors in the wet climate of West Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To him it was simply a waste, for the African was inherently ignorant and lazy and no amount of education could remedy that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the library, Ophie discovered a finely dressed white man speaking with an unseen partner about the rights of the African. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Soon both native and African women were bringing her specimens and describing uses for each leaf, worm, and beetle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Always to be the only African, except for menial workers, to be regarded at best as a curiosity and at worst as an interloper, is not a congenial experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was estimated that about 400,000 African Americans in the state were eligible to vote but still unregistered, the majority in and around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As I have mentioned, the Population Registration Act authorized the government officially to classify all South Africans according to race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met many Africans who had either spent some time in America, or who had heard other Africans’ testimony about America’s treatment of the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If any group of individuals had reason to ignore the sufferings of their neighbors, the elders of the Free African Society certainly did. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The fact that Lazar Sidelsky, one of the firm’s partners, would take on a young African as an articled clerk — something almost unheard of in those days — was evidence of that liberalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People kept bringing them to me: animals who had been orphaned and needed a home, animals who had been rescued from African markets. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The story of the African boy went that after he came aboard, he helped out on deck with various small tasks, a kind of apprentice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The South was solidly Democratic, embittered by the war, firmly committed to the maintenance of a racial caste system, and extremely hostile to federal intervention on behalf of African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I found that African nationalists and African Communists generally had far more uniting them than dividing them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver and I had encountered a recurring difficulty in our travels: one African leader after another had ques-tioned us about our relations with white and Indian communists, sometimes suggesting that they controlled the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of 1968, another larger ANC detachment had entered Rhodesia and fought not only the Rhodesian army but South African policemen who had been posted to Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She motioned to the African girl to do the same. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After presenting the data and making my arguments about the unconstitutional exclusion of African Americans, the judge complained loudly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Austin Police Department had better things to do than investigate who had sold counterfeit tickets to an African American teenager who lived on the wrong side of I-35. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

One day over lunch Ethel announced that when she was old enough, she intended to spread the Christian word to African primitives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

William Smith was a Coloured man involved in the African real estate trade who was often around the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disagreements within the African American community about how best to respond to systems of control—and even disagreements about what is, and is not, discriminatory—have a long history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a movement in which African Americans seized upon their first chances for group expression and self-determination. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In every state across our nation, African Americans—particularly in the poorest neighborhoods—are subjected to tactics and practices that would result in public outrage and scandal if committed in middle-class white neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Africans, it was presumed, did not care for bread as it was a “European” type of food. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imani is tall and slim and dark, like some kind of African princess from a movie. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Carl Orff came across an African xylophone, and developed a way to transform the xylophone into an instrument for the children at the school to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I have always been a member of the African National Congress and 1 will remain a member of the African National Congress until the day I die. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The COD served an important symbolic function for Africans; blacks who had come into the struggle because they were antiwhite discovered that there were indeed whites of goodwill who treated Africans as equals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afrikaners were dumbfounded; to them the award was another example of the perversity of Western liberals and their bias against white South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elected leaders of the African American community have a much broader mandate than civil rights groups, but they, too, frequently overlook criminal justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was nearly wrecked in a hurricane off the African coast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ANC was the one organization that welcomed everyone, that saw itself as a great umbrella under which all Africans could find shelter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is where the last of the great African rain forests still stand—Cameroon and Gabon, Zaire and the Congo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We're going to pack out every performance, because that African queen is going to be heard. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m joining the new Institute for African Studies.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How do you know? Are you a doctor?” one of the African doctors asked her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is completely missed in the rare public debates today about the plight of African Americans is that a huge percentage of them are not free to move up at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black minstrels were largely viewed as celebrities, earning more money and achieving more fame than African Americans ever had before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the history book there was an image of scantily clad Africans, their heads down, being marched off a boat under the watchful eyes of white men armed only with walking sticks. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

State Department’s releases to Africans which always imply that the American black man’s straggle is being “solved.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else can we learn from African languages that we didn’t already know from African faces? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walter's freedom was, for some of the white people in town, well beyond what African Americans with limited education were able to achieve through legitimate means. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sunny and her moms were both wearing matching African head wraps. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry “Native passes” issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clement was dressed in a dashiki—an African shirt that was to the Klan leader what a red flag is to a bull. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Transvaal batch of volunteers was scheduled to go into action at midday at an African township near Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on the twenty-eighth, the country responded magnificently as several hundred thousand Africans observed the chiefs call. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd stop before a store window to let him see himself—he has the dignified head of an African chief—only to find that he'd fallen asleep. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ideological creed of the ANC is, and always has been, the creed of African Nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But keeping students from going to school is usually counterproductive, and suspensions have been shown to disproportionately target African American males. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

About ten years ago I began visiting different African countries where chimpanzees still live to see what was going on and to see if I could help. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Few Africans could afford a lawyer, and most had no choice but to accept whatever verdict the court handed down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the jaw-dropping impact of the “get-tough” movement on the African American community, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans revealed any inclination to slow the pace of incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What they sought was not so much a radical restructuring of South African society as the removal of those features of apartheid that held back black initiative and enterprise. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this is not an argument that affirmative action has made no difference in the lives of poor or working-class African Americans—as some have claimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

America has imported and bred so many Africans that in many states the whites are outnumbered. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

NM: No African can be a member of the provincial council, of the municipal councils. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large island of Madagascar, about 250 miles east of the African mainland, offers a famous example. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is perfect for implementing one of the essential elements of West African dance and music, where people take turns “showing their stuff” in a playfully confrontational way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He was not only a brilliant writer, but was so committed to communism that he lived in a manner no different from an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African Americans who come to our meetings are the ones who write poems about Mother Africa and think every African is a Nubian queen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a brief period of progress during Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves, once again, virtually defenseless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is for paying guests only, which is, needless to say, whites, since the Africans around here wouldn’t earn enough in a month to buy one of my prix-fixe dinners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the first, I tried to read books about South Africa or by South African writers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, the ANC, the South African Indian Congress, and the Coloured People’s Congress would make a collective statement on an issue affecting only Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many practical advantages to being classified as Coloured rather than African, such as the fact that Coloured men were not required to carry passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott was an Anglican clergyman and a great fighter for African rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African king halted beside her, thinking she was unwell, and indeed the light of the flaring sconce above her did throw ghastly shadows over her face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His name was Paul Robinson, and he was in Kenya as part of a program that provided scholarships to African students to study in the United States. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

South African whites had always struck me as people who would have been happier living in the nineteenth century, or the eighteenth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was one generation removed from a slave ship, living in a country best described as an African penal colony, and he was a free man, with every benefit of education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“How about Frederick Douglass and his North Star newspaper that helped free the slaves—I mean, the enslaved Africans?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I got back to London, a year after setting out, I had been all around the African continent. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

An African elephant can’t stumble without falling on some white man with a shovel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that this child would be a part of a new generation of South Africans for whom apartheid would be a distant memory — that was my dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though we had the same African fathers who probably crossed these same seas together. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Plus, most of the names white people think are unusual actually have meanings in various African languages.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And his first publication, in 1836—with his captain— was a letter in the South African Christian Recorder arguing for increased funding for Christian missionaries. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a significant step toward the unity of the African and Indian movements. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many of these orphans were actually captured in the huge Central African country of Zaire. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

These stories were set in mythical African kingdoms ruled by black people, where no white man had ever set foot. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was unspoken but obvious was that he was a brother, and in our office, which employed more than four hundred lawyers, only about five full-time attorneys were African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All four were African American, between thirty and forty-five. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know the difference between any of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, or North African countries. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And they weren’t white but African- American, like him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffrage for African American men had become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Africans had lived and owned property in Sophiatown for over fifty years; now the government was callously planning on relocating all Sophiatown’s African residents to another black township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sophiatown boasted the only swimming pool for African children in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even as the abolitionists spoke up for the rights of Africans, Parliament was finally seriously considering giving more English people the right to vote. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sisulu ran a real estate office that specialized in properties for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tito and some fellow Liberians were walking up the street when they ran into an African American teenager they knew, walking with his mother and her boyfriend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Admittedly they resembled much of African folklore, but they had a freshness that appealed to my imagination. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then this man on stilts and dressed like a giraffe stole my African hat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The hot African sun felt good on my skin after the long winter in New York, and we gawked at hippos, rhinos, giraffes, and zebras. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her room is painted pale yellow and also has lots of cool African decorations. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

One hundred years after the Red Summer, and despite significant gains made by African Americans in the past century, serious racial issues continue to plague the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Africans, Verwoerd said, “should stand with both feet in the reserves” where they were to “develop along their own lines.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book is about a young African American teenager named Rufus, who gets out of juvenile hall, lives in the projects, and tries to find his biological father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Methuselah is an African Grey parrot with a fine scaly look to his head, a sharp skeptical eye like Miss Leep’s, and a scarlet tail. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally Africans would receive sandals made from car tires, but in this instance we were given shoes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scarf wrapped around her head adds to her majesty—an African queen, and we’re blessed to be in her presence. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Members of the hoity-toity Mount Zion Baptist Church mingled with the intellectual members of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and the plain working people of the Christian Methodist Episcopal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

An extraterrestrial visiting Earth 10,000 years ago might have been forgiven for predicting that Europe would end up as a set of vassal states of a sub-Saharan African empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are not in the position of the Africans, who are attempting to reclaim their land and break the colonial yoke and recover from the colonial experience. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This African violet is almost dead. Louise would be humiliated if she knew.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It reinforced my belief that among white South Africans there was that small minority that really believed in love, freedom and human dignity for all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She knew right away that he was African-American, not Caribbean, not African, not a child of immigrants from either place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had read and heard that President Nasser’s administration had built up one of the most highly industrialized countries on the African continent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parrots are known to be long-lived, and among all the world’s birds, African Greys are best at imitating human speech. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tromped off to church in the same old shoes and dresses we’d worn all the other African Sundays so far. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We receive our funds now from a consortium of men of aflairs who have some interest in proving the inequality of African capacities.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We did not close down African schools throughout the country nor did we rid ourselves of the Bantu Education Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am African and I wouldn’t believe what Mohammed’s bibi told him. Besides, you coconuts are far more dumb than us Africans.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Brazil is the land that imported more Africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in Brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many South African whites I met during meals in the dining hall thought I was a black American. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to South African law, since we were in the Supreme Court, Duma, as an advocate, was the only one permitted to address the judges directly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was my first sight of South African capitalism at work, and I knew I was in for a new kind of education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be clearly seen in the writings of African American leaders such as Richard R. Wright, a minister and editor of a black church newspaper in Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It is an African insect that burrows under the skin of the feet. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the government’s efforts to remove it, Sophiatown held a symbolic importance for Africans disproportionate to its small population. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ANC colleague in Lobatse had recently been kidnapped by the South African police and I thought the sooner we could leave, the better. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Guardians volunteer some of their time to tutor and counsel young African Americans. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Farmer had first met Father Jack when the priest was at St. Mary’s parish in Roxbury, one of Boston’s run-down, largely African American neighborhoods. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Plantation owners thus viewed Africans, who were relatively powerless, as the ideal slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It began in the 1960s with the rise in popularity of wigs made with South Korean hair in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through our conversation it came up that I spoke several African languages, and Theesan thought a colored kid speaking black languages was the most amazing trick. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can remember hearing of “Adam driven out of the garden into the caves of Europe,” “Africa for the Africans,” “Ethiopians, Awake!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once handled the case of a Coloured man who was inadvertently classified as an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This happened often, as the warders were generally unfamiliar with the variety and nature of African names. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African elephants were tamed in Roman times despite the obvious danger, and Asian elephants are still being tamed today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these campaigns was the First Transvaal and Orange Free State Peoples Assembly for Votes for All, a campaign for the extension of the franchise to all black South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a long head start counts for anything, why didn’t guns and steel arise first in Africa, permitting Africans and their germs to conquer Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The forest clearings made by African farmers also provide ideal breeding habitats for malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Africans had heard such rumors as that Elijah Muhammad had built a palace in Arizona. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marchers knew where they were expected to stand, with one notable exception: the African American marchers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Elgon forest towered around their campsite, a web of gnarled African olive trees hung with moss and creepers and dotted with a black olive that is poisonous to humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the voting rights of African Americans in the South were restricted until President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My brother and sister fought with the tenacity typical of African children to stay alive, but I wondered for how long. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That reality helps to explain why African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington urged blacks to focus on improving themselves rather than on challenging racial discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, but even if no Africans had been sold by other Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would still have happened. It was a European enterprise. It was about Europeans looking for labor for their plantations.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nationally, 58 percent of all incarcerated African American youths are serving their time in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

African Americans, Latinos, and Asians now make up the majority of the student body. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Egypt’s rising industrialization was one of the reasons why the Western powers were so anti-Egypt, it was showing other African countries what they should do, the scientist said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The African diplomats were taken on tours of the North Carolina Mutual offices, where they were shown row after row of black workers in starched white collars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, I kept my distance from Michael as it would have seemed exceedingly curious if a white professional man and an African houseboy were having regular conversations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mostly African American, with a sprinkling of Hispanic-looking kids, as young as kindergartners and as old as high schoolers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The government announced their intention to curb the trade union movement and do away with the limited franchises of the Indian, Coloured, and African peoples. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen years, but in 1979, the authorities announced over the intercom system that the diet for African, Coloured, and Indian prisoners would henceforth be the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dolls with twists and dreads, pressed hair and hair wrapped in fabric with African print. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I probed the wars of African against African, of African against white, of white against white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was to preserve the status quo where three million whites owned 87 percent of the land, and relegate the eight million Africans to the remaining 13 percent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the government was now scared of the might of the African people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I felt a surge of pride as I read my first adult book—and a book about Africa written by an African. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Around that time, a population of African apes broke up into several populations, of which one proceeded to evolve into modern gorillas, a second into the two modern chimps, and the third into humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Again, African Americans have been “crucified by conscientious blindness.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They believed that if this small, lone African American woman could take such a courageous stand, then they could, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although it had been conquered dozens of times, Ethiopia was the birthplace of African nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For example, a previously unknown fever termed O’nyong-nyong fever appeared in East Africa in 1959 and proceeded to infect several million Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lacy lamps, pottery milkmaids, and paintings of African grasslands you buy on the stairs at Littlewoods, if you really want to. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He lighted a cheap African cigarette and glanced at me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he would have found work for me anyway, because he was impressed by how much I knew about African animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an African, dressed only in a loincloth, with a spear in one hand. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

African American leader Booker T. Washington shared this view, opposing suffrage on the grounds that giving women the vote would undermine their moral and domestic influence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The African youth stood before us, a gawky and immobile spectacle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Regulations dictated that conversation had to be in either English or Afrikaans — African languages were forbidden — and could involve family matters only. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a big African palm tree inside our front gate, and in the backyard, a banana tree and my favorite tree, called a madammé tree. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ads were posted in Spain to attract sugar workers there; even a few African Americans came from the mainland. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was an injustice too great for the African American witnesses to ignore. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There’s only a big, dark-skinned guy in deep blue robes and a matching blue African kufi hat embroidered with silvery stars. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But why did Europeans develop those three advantages before sub-Saharan Africans could? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this was a move that African people do all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sonya, the tiny African American woman across from me, seems frozen in terror. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, each time you say it, the word hurts African Americans,” a pale, shaggy-haired boy in front said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That same day white South Africans would be celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of Jan Van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape in 1652. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The symbol of the spear was chosen because with this simple weapon Africans had resisted the incursions of whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The residents were not only overwhelmingly African American, but generally considerably older. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that they would ruthlessly suppress any legitimate protest on the part of the African majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If an African American calls you a Mandingo or a booty scratcher, he is insulting you for being African. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the covert goal of the government was to create an African middle class to blunt the appeal of the ANC and the liberation struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As had happened before, former allies of African Americans—as much as conservatives—adopted a political strategy that required them to prove how “tough” they could be on “them,” the dark-skinned pariahs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“In a minute. He didn’t care anything about those Africans. They could have been rats. He was in a laboratory testing himself— proving he could work on human dogs.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yet a number of African fighters were able to triumph over these difficulties and achieve great success. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is early morning on a Caribbean island, and African slaves—hundreds of them— are being sent out to the fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We cite this vignette as an example of possible recidivism; it demonstrates not only the confusion but also the fractious and insubordinate natural inclination of the African subject. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two days after this unpleasant exchange, the ill will between our team and the South Africans remained high. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For many African American voters, the Populist approach was preferable to the paternalism of liberals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The coin was not actually minted until the 1830s, when it was used in Sierra Leone, the African colony designed for freed slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We went to see Dr. A. B. Xuma, an old friend of the regent’s who was the president-general of the African National Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most probably they cooked African yams in stews with European spice mixtures and native maize. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a fair point; there were certainly more professional Africans in the Transvaal than in the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had only referred to his race in two ways—as African American and black—terms that had become popular after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

President Senghor was a scholar and a poet, and he told us he was collecting research material on Shaka, flattering us by asking numerous questions about that great South African warrior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led the way outside to the African lilies and pink roses, freshly watered by Jomo, and asked Ugwu to cut some. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons the South African government was reluctant to grant passports to blacks, I believe, had to do with the nature of the American government. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fellow student whispered to me that Nyathi was a member of the African National Congress, an organization that I had vaguely heard of but knew very little about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic that I, an African, was seeing the Africa of storybooks and legend for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike so many other African states, it had fought colonialism at every turn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Far from being a worthy goal, however, colorblindness has proved catastrophic for African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By analogy with the engulfing of Aboriginal Australian hunter-gatherers by British colonists fed on wheat and cattle, we have to suspect that some of the “lucky” Africans parlayed their advantage into engulfing their African neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taught by European missionaries, foreign enthusiasts eager to Christianize and Westernize the natives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Biased police practices are also nothing new, a recurring theme of African American experience since blacks were targeted by the police as suspected runaway slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It includes in its ranks South Africans of all races. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to sit up in the gods anymore with people all around me cheering on the Indians killing General Custer and the Africans chasing Tarzan all over the jungle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In African culture, the sons and daughters of one’s aunts or uncles are considered brothers and sisters, not cousins. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the fact that I did speak African languages immediately endeared me to the black kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And, Myna, I can find another toy for my son to play with. I’m sure I can get more than I paid for you—a broken-in African is highly sought after.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus driver told them she would call the police, so the African Americans got off the bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He is the son of a famous professional hunter named Iain MacDonald, who was killed at the controls of a light plane that crashed on the African plains in 1967, when Robin was thirteen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen screens of African children with flies around their large eyes and no clothes on. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Africans asked me politically sharper questions than one hears from most American adults. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans became considered genetically more intelligent than Africans, and especially more so than Aboriginal Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was only room for them to land one at a time, and then the African riflemen had to make their way down the rock face. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since the turn of the century, Africans owed their educational opportunities primarily to the foreign churches and missions that created and sponsored schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Riverbank, he lived in a damp windmill, where he did experiments with fruit flies and African violets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For many black South Africans, the story of the war was that there was someone called Hitler and he was the reason the Allies were losing the war. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A neighbor down the road had a mean goose and hogs, whose manure Mother toted home daily like a good African in two balanced bushel pails. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when the African American’s father was not allowed to vote because he was black, the Ugandan’s father was running for parliament or studying at Oxford,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hopefully not just to those of African descent in America but to those who want to speak and be heard on the question of human rights throughout the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

African teachers were not permitted to criticize the government or any school authority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the preparatory examination, which was to last for months, we listened day after day as African and Afrikaner detectives read out their notes of ANC meetings, or transcripts of speeches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have allowed ourselves to be willfully blind to the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Beyond the hills to the north lay the African Burial Ground and beyond that, the big pond called the Collect. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The predicament African Americans find themselves in today is not altogether different from the situation they faced during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The speaker’s natural hair was cut as low as a boy’s and her pretty face, wide-foreheaded and fleshless, reminded Ifemelu of the East Africans who always won long-distance races on television. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As the first African American family in the White House, we were being viewed as representatives of our race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The same week that Ashe arrived another historic landmark was being established in the annals of South African sports. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I spoke to a great crowd at Yankee Stadium, telling them that an unbreakable umbilical cord connected black South Africans and black Americans, for we were together children of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the opposition had still won, and unlike most African losers, Banda agreed to leave quietly and not start a war. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She also used to be an astronaut, one of the few female African American ones. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Native administration dealt with the laws relating to Africans and was advisable for anyone who wanted to work in the Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other memory I have of her is from fifth grade when she snapped at a teacher who kept calling her African American. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And that makes you know Swahili, African geography, and the history of food?” said Emma. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Women walked the streets in chadors and hijabs, while others wore colorful African robes and headdresses. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the docks echoed with the cries of enslaved Africans bought, sold, and branded in the burning sun. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the parade, the issue of where the African American women would march remained up in the air. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He went on to become the first African American to join Selma’s fire department and rose through the ranks to become Fire Chief. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In other instances, the words were spoken over images of African American residents wilting in the heat outside the Morial Convention Center or standing on rooftops waving for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, one element is African blacks, but the other consists of people instantly recognizable, from their appearance, as tropical Southeast Asians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another otherwise suitable candidate that disqualifies itself for equally obvious reasons is the African buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The journey was long—sometimes it lasted for twenty-seven weeks, far longer than the Middle Passage, the journey that brought newly enslaved Africans to the New World. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had always thought God made our features so we could be comfortable in the hot African sun. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Poqo, Xhosa for “independent” or “standing alone,” was loosely linked to the PAC, and their acts of terrorism targeted both African collaborators and whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the look in Okeoma’s eyes that worried him the most: a disdainful distrust that made him think of reading somewhere that the African and the European would always be irreconcilable. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ANC, unlike the Communist Party, admitted Africans only as members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Black History Month, Americans congratulate themselves for having put an end to discrimination against African Americans in employment, housing, public benefits, and public accommodations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The flattening of the third and seventh notches on the scale is consistent with centuries-old African melody modes, memories of which had clearly not been lost among the children and grandchildren of slaves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of the few African American doctors in Washington, Purvis was a surgeon at the Freedmen's Hospital. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the Nuba region, some fifty different ethnic groups, including Christians, Muslims, and practitioners of traditional African religions, lived in peace. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Something more awful than all our African ancestors is rising with the seas. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

How could this be a great African novel if the people weren’t so great? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Those North Africans would hardly be confused with blue-eyed blond-haired Swedes, but most laypeople would still call them “whites” because they have lighter skin and straighter hair than peoples to the south termed “blacks.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In particular, numerous white American psychologists have been trying for decades to demonstrate that black Americans of African origins are innately less intelligent than white Americans of European origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it's your exotic credential, that whole Authentic African thing.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mental outlook of all future generations of Africans was at stake. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Durango Street is about an African American teenager named Rufus, who was just released from juvenile hall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The next picture revealed a militia group carrying machetes, marching down the road in some dusty African country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In my cross-examination of Mr. Barnard I first read the court the letter I sent requesting that the prime minister call a national convention for all South Africans to write a new nonracial constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like indigenous peoples around the world, black South Africans adopted the religion of our colonizers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I believe God felt sorry for the Africans after putting the coconut so far out of reach, and aimed to make the mango easier to get a hand on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took handfuls of sediment from homemade African beer, which has a strong scent much favored by pigs, and placed it upwind of the pig. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goal of the Lagos Conference of Independent States was to unite all African states, but it eventually disintegrated into bickering about which states to include or exclude. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are legally denied the ability to obtain employment, housing, and public benefits—much as African Americans were once forced into a segregated, second-class citizenship in the Jim Crow era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My opponent, a white South African who grew up near Port Elizabeth, was used to playing under windy conditions and he won the match in straight sets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some of these areas, Africans had owned their own homes for several generations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also increased concern that, without greater equality for African Americans, blacks would become susceptible to communist influence, given Russia’s commitment to both racial and economic equality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For black activists like Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many others, it was impossible to separate one’s status as a woman from one’s status as an African American. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He gave an impromptu speech about the unquenchable African thirst for liberty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, in New Jersey, whites were almost twice as likely to be found with illegal drugs or contraband as African Americans, and five times as likely to be found with contraband as Latinos. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby looked at his son with pride, but the young man had his dark eyes on the terrified African girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want me to be “bogged down” by what she called “some crazy African name,” but Dad insisted. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I went to the awards conference at Princeton University and met kids from all over the country—American Muslims, Native Americans, African Americans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Blaine resented this mutuality, something primally African from which he felt excluded. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because African Americans and Latinos are targeted by police in the War on Drugs, it is far more likely that they will be arrested for minor, nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was issued the standard prison uniform for Africans: a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals, and a cloth cap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held up my two hands to illustrate the total and complete lack of gifts I had brought for the African children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t agree that the question of human rights, of civil liberties, is a matter of vital importance to the African people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a natural reluctance among many African states to support violent struggles elsewhere; but the speech convinced people that freedom fighters in South Africa had no alternative but to take up arms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently the big truck arrived, loaded with more equipment and the African field staff who would help with the digging. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Education was not compulsory for Africans and was free only in the primary grades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can never forget the first time I saw one of these pathetic infants for sale in the tourist market of a Central African town. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

What can archaeology tell us about the other great population movement in recent African prehistory—the Bantu expansion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most African Americans, including Armpit’s family, lived in the flatlands of east Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sanford, the Supreme Court immunized the institution of slavery from legal challenge on the grounds that African Americans were not citizens, and in Plessy v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The act transferred control of African education from the Department of Education to the much loathed Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coloured groups at the time were more concerned about the race classification and job reservation, issues that did not affect Africans and Indians to the same degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most popular attraction after the Eiffel Tower, sad to say, was a human zoo of four hundred Africans. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I glanced across the floor and saw Dr. Roseberry Bokwe, one of the most respected African leaders and scholars of the time, chatting with his brother- in-law and my professor, Z. K. Matthews. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Haitian soldiers were recently arrived Africans, warriors in their home countries. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they weren’t sure they believed this story. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Mom kept all her notes from every bank teller and embassy representative and African expert she talked to on a yellow legal pad. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I felt such intense pride at that point, not as an African, but as a Xhosa; I felt like one of the chosen people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dug into the slope a hundred feet below our camp, in an equally precarious setting, were the tents of most of the other teams—including Scott Fischer’s group, the South Africans, and the Taiwanese. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They excluded African American women from their efforts to secure the vote, fearing that it would be more difficult to gain favor for the cause among the powerful white male populace. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Spates of violence broke out between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the ANC, the African National Congress, as they jockeyed for power. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many felt, perhaps unfairly, that the ANC as a whole had become the preserve of a tired, unmilitant, privileged African elite more concerned with protecting their own rights than those of the masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern Europe is not a society molded by sub-Saharan black Africans who brought millions of Native Americans as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A few moments later we all lifted our eyes in awe as a spectacular array of South African jets, helicopters, and troop carriers roared in perfect formation over the Union Buildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As a result, more than 90 percent of white South Africans go through a lifetime without seeing firsthand the inhuman conditions under which blacks have to survive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been engaged in a running debate about the appeal of communism to ordinary South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I warned you about talking those African words,” Polly reminded the girl. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather’s loss, of the little African slave who had been her shadow for twelve years. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t there at least one African hunter-gatherer tribe that domesticated those zebras and buffalo and that thereby gained sway over other Africans, without having to await the arrival of Eurasian horses and cattle? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown, who coached volleyball. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I carried the child over to the big African and reached her out to him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They became outnumbered and were replaced northeast of the Fish River by black African farmers, whose southward spread halted at that river. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the last centuries B.C. the advancing Bantu had reached the East African coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In Deep South states, jury rolls were pulled from voting rolls, which excluded African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I noticed there were some Hispanics at the next bus stop where some African American people were waiting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called “Christian trader” white man began to ply the seas in his lust for Asian and African empires, and plunder, and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French, the Belgians, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spanish and other white nations have weakened steadily as nonwhite Asians and Africans have recovered their lands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Bruce Herrod, the amiable thirty-seven-year-old deputy leader of the South African team, and the sole remaining member of that expedition with real mountaineering credentials. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In liberty or bondage, the African could not be separated from the American. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even as small as we then were, some of the African and Asian personages had sent Mr. Muhammad private word that they liked his efforts to awaken and lift up the American black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, they were joined by the APO, the African People’s Organization, a Coloured organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare was more than that: it was a beacon for African scholars from all over Southern Central and Eastern Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obama’s stated positions on criminal justice reform suggest that he is opposed to the War on Drugs and the systematic targeting of African Americans for mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That union of Austronesians and East Africans lives on today in Madagascar’s basically Austronesian language, which contains loan words from coastal Kenyan Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

White and African police and members of the Special Branch milled around, taking photographs, writing in notebooks, and trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the delegates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kemp on African American defendants throughout the criminal justice system, including those ensnared by the War on Drugs, need only ask Edward Clary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, the developer sold his houses to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huts stood in fallow fields, studded with African weeds and shoots of young saplings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now let’s turn to the remaining question in our puzzle of African prehistory: why Europeans were the ones to colonize sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s intention in creating the homeland system was to keep the Transkei — and other African areas — as reservoirs of cheap labor for white industry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for — the freedom of all of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garlick and I sat in the estate agent5s waiting room while a pretty African receptionist announced our presence to her boss in the inner office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, by their calculations, the Free African Society was out of pocket at least $500. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Africans who worked as spies against their own brothers generally did so for money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen Africans died and many others were wounded in this indiscriminate and unprovoked attack. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A French artist visiting the island of Martinique around the same time as Clark showed a row of African women and men preparing the ground. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

These fellows whose bodies seemed—what had one of my teachers said of me?—"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the African features of my black brothers and sisters whom the devilish white man had brainwashed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like when she told me the Africans would kill me if I ever went to Africa. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In one of the largest such actions in South African history, the miners went on strike for a week and maintained their solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began talking to my parents about what I was learning from my African American friends at school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

However, Figure 19.1, of recent African human distributions, reminds us that the Bantu did not overrun all the Khoisan, who did survive in southern African areas unsuitable for Bantu agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the young African women I’d met at the leadership forum, all of them now headed back to their own communities to pick up their work again, persevering through whatever tumult they faced. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom and dad sell the store to an African American couple. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The enslavement of Africans for labor in the Americas is one example. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the number of incoming African Americans in a particular neighborhood reached a certain point — 20 percent, say — sociologists observed that the community would “tip”: most of the remaining whites would leave almost immediately. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Guineans tamed sugar cane and bananas, while the first West African farmers made African millet, African rice, sorghum and wheat conform to their needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dockworkers’ unions around the world threatened not to handle South African goods. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stimela” is not a political song, but in the context, it became one, for the implication was that the train contained guerrillas coming down to fight the South African army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smells vaguely of wood- smoke and sweat, and it is jammed with bleary- eyed people, Africans and Europeans sitting shoulder to shoulder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, when Eurasia’s Major Five domestic mammals reached sub-Saharan Africa, they were adopted by the most diverse African peoples wherever conditions permitted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night I addressed a meeting of African township ministers in Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thema, who was editor of the newspaper the Bantu World, fiercely criticized the campaign in his paper, claiming that Communists had taken over the ANC and that Indians were exploiting the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He emphasized the historical achievements of Africa and Africans, and noted how foolish it was for whites to see themselves as a chosen people and an intrinsically superior race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an implicit rebuke to the Communist Party, which Lembede and many others, including myself, considered a “foreign” ideology unsuited to the African situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luma was right in front of them, but a woman soccer coach was a strange sight to young Africans, and to young Muslim boys from Afghanistan and Iraq. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Local South African music was big, but black American music was what people were desperate for, hip-hop and R&B. Jagged Edge was huge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I called my parents and asked them if they would help fund a summer study abroad trip in Morocco where I could further my North African studies and practice my Arabic. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Suesetta says, “On behalf of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Bethel, we thank you for being a role model to us and a pillar of hope to the nation.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Although our food was not yet equalized, African prisoners would occasionally receive bread in the morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my eyes are a perfect blend—neither Asian nor African but somewhere in between. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They spent many hours talking together about the changing world and the dawning of independence and liberation movements across the African Diaspora. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When an African dad buys his kid a present, the last thing he’s going to do is give some fat white man credit for it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because it’s on your head—the highest part of your body and closest to the skies—many Africans viewed it as a passageway for spirits to the soul, a way to interact with God. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is a struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and their own experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I say to a very pretty African American girl in a wool skirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To be an African in South Africa means that one is politicized from the moment of one’s birth, whether one acknowledges it or not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was signed “Afua,” the African name our mother had tried to give Fern when she was born, but Pa wouldn’t let her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Within a few days we learned there were about a thousand men, all Africans, all recent arrivals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all this time I can certainly work with the Africans as well as anybody can, mainly by not leading them into temptation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was then one of a handful of African lawyers in all of South Africa and was the legal partner of the venerable Dr. Pixley ka Seme, one of the founders of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as an African American, he was not only targeted by the drug war but then denied access to housing because of his conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Ghetto Act, which had prompted the Indian protests, barely affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basner had been an African Representative in the Senate, an early member of the Com-munist Party, and a passionate supporter of African rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had discovered my identity and told me that the Coloured community feared that under an African government they would be just as oppressed as under the present white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At every opportunity, I said all South Africans must now unite and join hands and say we are one country, one nation, one people, marching together into the future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did Sam know that the Igbo tribe of the African continent is predisposed to nervous disorders? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Numerous black colleges were located in Atlanta, and the city was home to the South’s largest population of college-educated African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pietro had come back from Mussolini’s African campaign in one piece, but, after shelling Ethiopian civilians with mustard gas, his mind was never the same. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Eleanor held a cassette up to her dad, and he nodded, flicking his cigarette into an ashtray shaped like a naked African woman. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Later, I heard reports that South African newspapers were writing that our cell was flooded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do African Americans want to pressure Obama on any issue, let alone issues of race? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The explosions also shocked white South Africans into the realization that they were sitting on top of a volcano. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no contradiction in the bold claim made by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” if Africans were not really people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In addition, the firm prided itself on its devotion to African education, toward which they donated handsomely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This particular case study on West African music relies solely on aural learning, which means that a rote method is applicable to the music learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

At that time, a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African, the highest that a black man could aspire to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened silently to the charges: inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without valid travel documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, they wore European clothes, decorated at times in African ways. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was an African American Male Achievement Program to mentor black boys. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He explained in beautiful language that the African people knew that a nonviolent struggle would entail suffering but had chosen it because they prized freedom above all else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the months that I worked there, I was often in court representing the firm’s many African clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the court how I had joined the African National Congress and how its policy of democracy and nonracialism reflected my own deepest convictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were maps of the North African, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns, and now I would have to add a map of Europe, too. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to ask about health insurance once I meet Carlotta, the middle-aged African American woman who will be training me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the new policy, even though two-thirds of Africans lived in so-called white areas, they could only have citizenship in their own “tribal homelands.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would laugh with derision, but only a mild derision, because she was still their African sister, even if she had briefly lost her way. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thanks to black pride on Dad's side of the family, it's easy to imagine a strong, passionate African woman as one of my ancestors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the white Mississippians advanced on Arkansas in their various vehicles, they fired out of windows at every African American they saw. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Rush then showed members of the Free African Society how to drain blood from a patient and they marched out to perform over 800 bleedings. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His jury was illegally selected, excluding African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He'd made his displeasure clear to the campaign staff, suggesting that the move showed a disregard for the African American community and would end up hurting Barack’s candidacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

African warders tend to be either much more sympathetic than white warders, or even more severe, as though to outdo their masters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One merely has to witness the infectious singing at African rallies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africans want a just share in the whole of South Africa; they want security and a stake in society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her chance came when she was offered a fellowship to study in Germany by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, a foundation that awarded educational grants to African Americans. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He just plucked up another bean flower and held it up to the sky, examining it in the African light like a doctor with an X-ray, looking for the secret thing gone wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its poverty, Sophiatown brimmed with a rich life and was an incubator of so much that was new and valuable in African life and culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sage became dotted with a few junipers in a landscape that seemed almost African. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were African capitals of countries not far from Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I stressed to the assembled press the need for mutual communication and support between the Africans and Afro- Americans whose straggles were interlocked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the students are African American; the rest are Hispanic. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I can tell that she is looking at an African print dress, contemplating my size. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We agreed that Pan-Africanism was the key also to the problems of those of African heritage. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over 115 million African blacks—close to the 1930’s population of the United States—were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather John—the son of William Ford and his African concubine—became a preacher. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The lodge had turrets with round rooms and medieval doors, hand-carved from African olive wood, and the living room boasted an immense fireplace with a carved mantelpiece. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of simply increasing the African quota, the authorities reduced the amount of sugar that Coloured and Indian prisoners received by half a spoonful, while adding that amount for African prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the hard facts were that fifty years of nonviolence had brought the African people nothing but more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, E.J., and Lee Lee keep on talking, comparing the experience of African Americans and Native Americans in the United States. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Curly, textured hair, the natural hair of many African Americans, was seen as bad. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Granted that New Guineans had “progressed” beyond Native Australians, why had they not yet “progressed” as far as many Eurasians, Africans, and Native Americans? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The practice of striking all or almost all African American potential jurors continued virtually unchanged after the Court's ruling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Polly took in deep breaths and asked heatedly, “What did we eat that made us sick? I thought you Africans knew all about plants and herbs!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the North African origins of Semites and the origins of Madagascar’s Asians, that’s another conclusion that we couldn’t have reached without linguistic evidence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The city was therefore in a position to serve, Janus-like, as an intermediary between the African interior and potential markets overseas. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The chief testified to his belief in the innate goodness of man and how moral persuasion plus economic pressure could well lead to a change of heart on the part of white South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But do African Americans want the media to talk about Obama’s drug use? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Opinion polls showed that the Congress was far and away the most popular political organization among Africans even though it had been banned for a quarter of a century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became testy with Judge Rumpff when he fell into the same mistake made by so many white South Africans about the idea of a universal franchise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never been someone who dwelled on the more demoralizing parts of being African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The African girl, her hands tied in front of her with a rope, was still sniffling quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following year, the government passed two more laws that directly attacked the rights of the Coloureds and Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names gathered first on the African coast in tens of thousands of manifests. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I began to sense my identity as an African, not just a Thembu or even a Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had been young, the people of Qunu were not political at all; they were unaware of the struggle for African rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The majority of my teachers treat me as if I, and I alone, hold the answers to the mysterious creatures that African Americans are, like I’m the Rosetta Stone of black people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Free African Society was founded in 1787, the first organization in America created by blacks for blacks. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He was involved in African education, donating money and time to African schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some white, Latino, and Asian kids on the floor as well, but the overwhelming majority of students seemed to be African American. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That same month, the South African military again attacked an ANC outpost in Maseru, Lesotho, killing forty-two people, including a dozen women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed back against the feelings of failure that permeated so many African American communities, urging people to quit with the self-pity and take charge of their own destiny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The magistrate told me that the South African police were aware that I was returning, and he suggested that I leave tomorrow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities refused to renew it, insisting that we move our offices to an African location many miles away and virtually unreachable for our clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion of white supremacy rationalized the enslavement of Africans, even as whites endeavored to form a new nation based on the ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The South African government had powerful allies in Great Britain and the United States who were content to maintain the status quo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariama picked it up and after a minute said, “Come now,” the very words that had made Ifemelu stop making appointments with African hair braiding salons. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

An African American girl was sitting a few seats away with her boyfriend. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Whites comprised a mere 8 percent of people frisked by the NYPD, while African Americans accounted for 85 percent of all frisks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Of the roughly six hundred African American boys who started Oakland high schools as freshmen each year, only about three hundred ended up graduating. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even my own church, the Wesleyan Church, handed over their two hundred thousand African students to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then we never used the word “African.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Local jury commissions used statutory requirements that jurors be “intelligent and upright” to exclude African Americans and women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What shade of black African polluted by devil white man are you? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, one African melon species is so well adapted to being eaten by a hyena-like animal called the aardvark that most melons of that species grow on the latrine sites of aardvarks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl I had three best friends who happened to be Chinese, African American, and Caucasian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Had we retained any of our African inheritance? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In England, abolitionists spoke up for Africans, but kings and lords still ruled. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mum and I were greeted by the two African game scouts who were responsible for protecting the thirty square miles of the park. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cheapest means of transport to and from Alexandra was the “Native” bus — for Africans only — which at one pound tenpence a month made a considerable dent in my income. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Africans are given short trou-sers, for only African men are deemed “boys” by the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I teamed up with a white South African junior player from Cape Town in doubles; we won our first-round match and lost in three sets in the second. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once this controversy was put aside, members of the Free African Society patrolled the streets daily, rounding up the ill and finding shelter for homeless children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But why were Eurasians, rather than Native Americans or sub-Saharan Africans, the ones to invent firearms, oceangoing ships, and steel equipment? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, copper smelting had been going on in the West African Sahara and Sahel since at least 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their African equivalents—such as the African buffalo, zebra, bush pig, rhino, and hippopotamus—have never been domesticated, not even in modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Ismail, J.N., and myself were in a rush to get to Kholvad House, and we boarded the tram despite the fact that while Indians were allowed, Africans were not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a pretrial hearing, I once argued against the exclusion of African Americans from the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I knew this because ever since I started corresponding with Martin, I had been studying African geography. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They are treated with great caution by African wizards. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat as far away as she could from the African slave girl, making sure the bundles separated them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most white people believed African Americans lacked the proper motivation to work, prompting the provisional Southern legislatures to adopt the notorious black codes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My bump had started to itch, so I tilted my African hat away from it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I serve alongside your brother in the African Brigade of the 9th Louisiana Regiment, Mounted Ceratops Division. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

African Americans throughout the South responded with great hope and enthusiasm, eager to be true partners in a struggle for social justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like the people of the East, Africans have a highly developed sense of dignity, or what the Chinese call “face.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to say ‘young African American woman.’” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I had recently become national president of the Youth League, and in my new role I urged that the campaign should be exclusively African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only 5 percent of the drivers on the road were African American or Latino, but more than 80 percent of the people stopped and searched were minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He held a curious view of the law when it came to women and Africans: neither group, he said, was meant to be lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus bananas and coffee, two African crops, become the principal agricultural exports of Central America; maize and manioc, domesticated in Mesoamerica and Amazonia respectively, return the favor by becoming staples in tropical Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m Black, Mom. African American. That’s what I put on my official school tests when they ask. I’m Black and I’m proud of that.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The Advisory Board meetings were perfunctory and bureaucratic, but the ANC meetings were lively with debate and discussion about Parliament, the pass laws, rents, bus fares — any subject under the sun that affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secretaries might share tea with two Africans, but not the cups with which to drink it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was first and foremost an African nationalist fighting for our emancipation from minority rule and the right to control our own destiny. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Youth League was marginally more friendly to the Indians and the Coloureds, stating that Indians, like Africans, were oppressed, but that Indians had India, a mother country that they could look to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book focuses on the experience of African American men in the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Whites, I said, often claim that Africans in South Africa were better off than Africans in the rest of the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly met an African girl wearing awesome braids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Grandma Rose could play an African queen just fine. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Indians could henceforth only live in Indian areas, Africans in African, Coloureds in Coloured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than one hour after we had released a statement calling off the strike, the government-run South African Broadcasting Corporation read our announcement in full. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crack epidemic, which had ravaged African American communities in places like Detroit and New York, was only just reaching Chicago, but its course was no less destructive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She looked searchingly at Granny, who was pounding millet with pestle and mortar and mixing it with sorghum and nuts for an African delicacy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My older sister had a boyfriend who was African American. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the only African American First Lady to set foot in the White House, I was “other” almost by default. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We discussed the unity of Africans and peoples of African descent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was on his way, in fact, to becoming one of the first African Americans to be widely viewed as a hero by ordinary white Americans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were South Africans just like ourselves and this was their land, too. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

State Department regularly brought African dignitaries to the city, to show the world that the stories in the sensationalist press about race problems in America were exaggerated or exceptions to the rule of racial comity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Nile River The Sahara desert covers the northern part of the African continent, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

When I was done, the African students all but besieged me for autographs; some of them even hugged me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing that is clear from the survey data and ethnographic research is that African Americans in ghetto communities experience an intense “dual frustration” regarding crime and law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made the right to vote, the most fundamental right in any democracy, their highest priority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This tall South African who now captured my attention wore his manhood as a sign of accomplishment, a badge of honor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She taught us all the different nations of Africa and the periods of African history. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For many African Americans, the use of wholly discretionary peremptory strikes to select a jury of twelve remained a serious barrier to serving on a jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the case of the Pygmies, the answer is “not yet,” merely because archaeologists have yet to discover ancient human skeletons from the Central African forests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the enslaved Africans could not stand their lives anymore, they risked everything to run or to fight. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Grunt showed us a picture of an older woman who looked like she’d just gotten back from an African safari, seated in a bizarre chair made of horns. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wide and purple, like those African dolls you see in tourist store windows but could never afford to buy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Poor and working-class whites in both the North and South, no less than African Americans, responded positively to the New Deal, anxious for meaningful economic relief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the quiet African night was filled with shouting, then with banging and clattering sounds as though someone was throwing pots and pans. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Maryland studies produced similar results: African Americans comprised only 17 percent of drivers along a stretch of I-95 outside of Baltimore, yet they were 70 percent of those who were stopped and searched. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even fewer preserved East Asian skeletal fragments are known, but they appear different again from both Africans and Neanderthals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Africans, he said, could never be integrated into the white community. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Less than half of all African children of school age attended any school at all, and only a tiny number of Africans were graduated from high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at Mqhekezweni that I developed my interest in African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of the more experienced butlers, a white-haired African American man named James Ramsey, had served since the Carter administration. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even the Semitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government’s policy was to try to put Africans into ethnic enclaves because they feared the power of Af-rican unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Defiance Campaign onward, going to prison became a badge of honor among Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is also this to consider: The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To that end, the report recommended the industrialization of the African areas, noting that any program of development that did not aim at providing opportunities for Africans in their own regions was doomed to failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On BBC, there was a news update on the war—emissaries from the pope, from the Organization of African Unity, from the Commonwealth, were coming to Nigeria to propose peace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There are simply no doctors and nurses left on that continent. It’s an absolute tragedy! African doctors should stay in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon helps to explain why studies indicate that white people with a criminal record may actually have an easier time gaining employment than African Americans without a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some song from her African past, from another life. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Noel was from the Caribbean, of West African descent, and had suffered several such episodes over the prior years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I studied the African women, the big white-haired man, the fat couple and their children, the Japanese tourists. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the lowest court she had ever presided at: a thirteen-year-old lawyer, a court stenographer who records in Polish, and the judge in African robes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like Lembede, I came to see the antidote as militant African nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d end up in a neighborhood to the south, an area known as Pill Hill due to an apparently large number of African American doctors living there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In African cultures, portliness is often associated with wealth and well-being. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah wrote a report on giraffes last year when we were studying the African plains. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Dad will tell you straight up, “No, no, no. I bought you that.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was seventy-three percent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I prayed to old black African stones unearthed from the old dark ground that has been here all along. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Then they turned around and marched two abreast to Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where a waiting crowd of students cheered and applauded. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He favored a pidgin of his lost African tongue and slave talk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The African Nationalism for which the ANC stands is the concept of freedom and fulfillment for the African people in their own land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace explained: there was a soccer team for refugee kids like them, with lots of Africans and kids from places he’d never heard of. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white’ Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, at the time, the largest African school below the equator, with more than a thousand students, both male and female. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had died of a mysterious African plague that had turned him as yellow and wrinkled as a piece of parchment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to being violent gangsters, South African minibus drivers are notorious for complaining and haranguing passengers as they drive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Berrange later revealed in his deft cross-examination that many of the African detectives were unable to understand or write English, the language in which the speeches were given. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Short trousers for Africans were meant to remind us that we were “boys.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if white South African celebrities—including those who regarded themselves as liberal—would have deigned to treat me as an equal in a room full of whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, Indian peoples domesticated the local Indian subspecies of wild aurochs, Southwest Asians independently domesticated their own Southwest Asian subspecies of aurochs, and North Africans may have independently domesticated the North African aurochs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bantustan system had been conceived by Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, the minister of native affairs, as a way of muting international criticism of South African racial policies but at the same time institutionalizing apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Golden. My grandmother said it was an old African symbol for a spiderweb. Something about being creative.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to march across a freeway to support African Americans. Besides, it’s a school night.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her African costume was a colorful wrap; her sailor outfit made her look like a street rascal, with a tunic, trousers, and leather boots. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Its chief goal was, and is, for the African people to win unity and full political rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or in Russia, when Khrushchev was in power, he threatened to cancel the visas of black African students whose anti-discrimination demonstration said to the world, “Russia, too. . . .” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the victims had been put into isolation huts on the edge of the village—an old African technique for dealing with smallpox. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latter distinction was made on the curious premise that Africans did not naturally like bread, which was a more sophisticated or “Western” taste. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Hertzog had, three years earlier, led the drive to remove the last African voters from the common voters roll in the Cape, I found Smuts a sympathetic figure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pass stated where the bearer lived, who his chief was, and whether he had paid the annual poll tax, which was a tax levied only on Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes her seat as she’s told and holds her head so high and proud that she reminds me of the paintings of African queens my mother left hanging on our living room wall. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the Black Lives Matter movement have demonstrated against the deaths of many other African Americans killed by police actions or while in police custody. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The rest of the CD features long African drumming sessions. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, voters could grant suffrage to African American men, to white women, to neither group, or to both groups, which would include African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The excuse given by the government was slum clearance, a smoke screen for the government policy that regarded all urban areas as white areas where Africans were temporary residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met an African woman named Mariana who helped me braid my hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“One force does, certainly,” she said, “but I’m not sure about the other. We must hope the Africans win.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Following slavery, for example, there were some African Americans who supported disenfranchisement because they believed that black people were not yet “ready” for the vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

African nationalism was our battle cry, and our creed was the creation of one nation out of many tribes, the overthrow of white supremacy, and the establishment of a truly democratic form of government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Streeler is native to several African countries, though it has been successfully raised by wizards in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my best efforts to convince myself that being a doctor was my destiny, I decided to double major in African and African-American Studies and International Relations with a focus on the Middle East. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I explained to a group of several hundred Africans, Indians, and Coloureds that volunteering was a difficult and even dangerous duty, as the authorities would seek to intimidate, imprison, and perhaps attack the volunteers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried imagining how white South Africans would react to blacks suddenly appearing in their “pure,” affluent, silent-as- a-tomb suburbs, not as nannies, garden boys, garden girls, washerwomen and maids, but as neighbours. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason for this was that the South African government wanted to establish good relations with the Japanese in order to import their fancy cars and electronics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Kerchmer said that she would lend her African violets for the centerpieces. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were as many as 400,000 African miners working on the Reef, most of them making no more than two shillings a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Field Guide to African Birds left by our fowl-minded patron Brother Fowles, my bird is called the paradise flycatcher. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and African American, with a shaved head, glasses, and an easy, sympathetic manner. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Valerie Jarrett was the newly appointed deputy chief of staff to the mayor of Chicago and had deep connections across the city’s African American community. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We carried the small brown coffin shoulder high, intoning African liberation songs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the University of Ghana’s Great Hall, I addressed the largest audience that I would in Africa—mostly Africans, but also numerous whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had one middle-aged African warder whom I occasionally was able to see, and one day I tried to bribe him with an apple to get him to talk to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s explore ways to utilize familiar pedagogies to approximate the core cultural values associated with music in West African culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a wrenching exposure of our country’s structural divides, most especially the intense, lopsided vulnerability of African Americans and poor people of all races when things got rough. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You will start to admire Africans who have perfect American accents, like our brother here, Kofi. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones — and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Coleridge-Taylor had previous experience of adapting African- American folk times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Send this to your African friend,” he said as he tossed a T-shirt into my room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford strode in as regally as an African princess, her noble head swathed in a turban, her tall body draped in yards of handprinted cloth. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

This map from the 1600s shows boats coming to and fro, as well as the kind of sugar mill that was run by enslaved Africans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fort Hare was both home and incubator of some of the greatest African scholars the continent has ever known. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they say about African communities is true: It takes a village to raise a child. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A while before, African prisoners had begun to receive bread in the morning, but that made little difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could hook up some African drum music to go with her poetry for the assembly Teach told us about. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Although they represented scarcely i% of the Bantu population they took it upon themselves to tell the world that the Africans in South Africa are suppressed, oppressed and depressed.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vehicle was stopped by a young African guard, but he was overwhelmed when dozens of armed policemen and several police dogs sprang from the vehicle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One pretty African girl sang “Blue Moon” like Sarah Vaughan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they just want to give you a new look, a more African look, instead of those big pants you always wear,” he joked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Smuts spoke about the importance of supporting Great Britain against the Germans and the idea that England stood for the same Western values that we, as South Africans, stood for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black elites found they had much to gain by positioning themselves as “race managers,” and many poor African Americans became persuaded that perhaps their degraded status was, after all, their own fault. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I recall once defending an African woman employed as a domestic worker in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was an African virus, what was it doing in the Philippines? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jontay sent me a message with a meme of one of the African princesses from the Black Panther movie. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It is an international activist movement that began in the African American community and campaigns against oppression and systemic violence against black people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the events in Washington, Chicago, and Elaine, it became increasingly clear that, rather than be diminished by the riots, African Americans were emboldened by them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

NM: No African is a member of Parliament? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what a photograph was, and I had been examined by a doctor once, an African doctor, but I didn’t know what the word immunize meant. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

African doves perch in the trees and call their drawn-out calls. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africans had no loyalty to General Smuts, but we had even less for the National Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Readers accustomed to thinking of linguistics as dull and technical may be surprised to learn what fascinating contributions Figure 19.2 makes to our understanding of African history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been eleven months and nine days since he had first set foot on the African continent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when everybody was thinking their regular African gods were aggravated with us and fixing to teach us a lesson. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need a hat, Tuma. A black-and-white African hat like the one you sold them.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was white and black, African and American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d learned several South African languages in order to deal with his customers, so he’d spoken with her fluently when they met. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then suddenly M. D. Naidoo, a member of the South African Indian Congress, burst forth and said to his Indian colleagues, “Ah, you are afraid of going to jail, that is all!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, did Africa’s abundance of big wild mammals, available to kill by hunting, make it superfluous for Africans to go to the trouble of tending domestic stock? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew of course that there were poor whites, whites who were every bit as poor as Africans, but one rarely saw them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the PAC’s anticommunism, they became the darlings of the Western press and the American State Department, which hailed its birth as a dagger to the heart of the African left. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On slave ships, newly captured Africans were forcibly shaved in a profound act of dehumanization, an act that effectively severed the link between hair and cultural identity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if he was telling the truth or not He looked pure African. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had an understanding with a handful of African officers who were members of the security police that they would inform us when there was going to be a police raid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the African buffalo is considered the most dangerous and unpredictable large mammal of Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I continued to read books about animals, especially African animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was dark—as dark as an African—and had a lovely smile, white, white teeth against his dark skin. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The Afghan and Iraqi kids would look down on the African kids,” Luma said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the time, there were just seven nonwhite Republicans in Congress—none of them African American and only one was a woman. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We aren’t all that accustomed to the African race to begin with, since back home they keep to their own parts of town. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a lawyer, he was a defender of African leaders and trade unionists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its leaders believed that white South Africans could be persuaded, on moral and humanitarian grounds, to end segregation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The issue was taken up at a meeting of the National Executive Committee and my view was voted down, even by those who were considered staunch African nationalists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after eleven o’clock, we found them marching in unison in the street; at eleven, curfew regulations went into effect and Africans needed a permit to be outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, a driver’s license was an unusual thing for an African, for very few blacks had cars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. was back on his feet railing about black students with “African hairstyles and clothes” while glaring at Clement, who sported both. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But it isn’t quite the same thing, is it? We’re speaking of some of the world’s poorest people. The doctors have a responsibility as Africans,” Alexa said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Latinos and African Americans began to walk out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

With everyone in the neighborhood taking on African names and trying to go back to Africa, I was anxious to learn more about the place of our ancestors. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I said I felt certain that the only reason black Africans—our black brothers—could be so silent about what happened in America was that they had been misinformed by the American government’s propaganda agencies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day we heard and saw the thousands of humiliations that ordinary Africans confronted every day of their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fought for South Africa during World War II in North Africa and Italy, but after his return, a white bureaucrat had reclassified him as African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

PAFMECSA, which later became the Organization of African Unity, aimed to draw together the independent states of Africa and promote the liberation movements on the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was quickly learning that I was not considered African American, even though I was from Africa and I was living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate and strategic effort to deflect anger and hostility that had been brewing against the white elite away from them and toward African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

South African history, of course, looks very different to the black man than to the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixty pounds for the African girl,” the voice cried out at last. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter couldn't escape the reality of racism, but having his own business in a growing sector of the economy gave him a latitude that many African Americans did not enjoy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A friend once asked me how I could reconcile my creed of African nationalism with a belief in dialectical materialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angel had moved on to Lord Asriel’s side, and Mrs. Coulter found herself descending next to the African king. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t agree with the popular arguments for slavery but saw it as a necessary evil given the obvious intellectual deficiencies of the African tribe. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Because of this, there are many Africans who, today, tend to equate freedom with communism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about the African elephants with which Hannibal’s armies crossed the Alps? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other types of music, such as traditional Western African drumming, may have very complex meters that can be difficult for the beginner to identify. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Whites are fellow South Africans,” I said, “and we want them to feel safe and to know 'that we appreciate the contribution that they have made toward the development of this country.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, many of our grassroots African supporters saw Indians as exploiters of black labor in their role as shopkeepers and merchants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House butlers who staffed the residence, mostly African American men who were our age or older, stood poised to help us with anything we needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Linda found an African market and tried to help us get the spices and foods we liked. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The African knowledge gained thereby explains the Olmec's rapid rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That day, I felt myself to be the embodiment of African nationalism, the inheritor of Africa’s difficult but noble past and her uncertain future. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prospects for world dominance of sub-Saharan Africans, Aboriginal Australians, and Native Americans remain dim. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would say that the whole life of any thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I could see the clouds rolling off Table Mountain and the crowds of wealthy South Africans casually peering into the pristine water at the V & A Waterfront. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Naked white South African tennis players milled around the locker room, getting ready for matches or about to shower. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their society showed how disparate elements — French, Islamic, and African — can mingle to create a unique and distinctive culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I found myself strongly drawn to the idea of a classless society, which, to my mind, was similar to traditional African culture where life was shared and communal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter the odds, we will fight with all our might until black men everywhere can point with pride to this Republic, standing dignified and defiant, an example of African nationalism.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were no Africans or Native Americans in the picture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The road to Mount Elgon heads northwest from Nairobi into the Kenya highlands, climbing through green hills that bump against African skies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were waiting for Mr. Mwakangale of the Tanganyika African National Union, a member of Parliament, and unbeknown to us he had already called looking for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As more and more African nations achieved independence, the United States government was compelled to defend racial equality here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, South Africa and the African continent were part of the larger world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that many years before I had arrived at Gombe, chimpanzees had taken two African babies for food. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be allowed to enter even a black South African university with that, so how could I hope to enter an American one if I was to be awarded a tennis scholarship? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Ginny was a white girl, and Armpit was older and an African American, she had just assumed he worked for her family. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Philip Lombard, that upon a date in February, 1932, you were guilty of the death of twenty-one men, members of an East African tribe. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

My hotel’s dining room, when I went to breakfast, was full of more of those whites—discussihg Africa’s untapped wealth as though the African waiters had no ears. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They dress up every different way in the world: some have long shirts made from the same flowery African cloth that is attired by the women. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cried out of my heart, “Now, dance! Sing! But as you do—remember Mandela, remember Sobokwe! Remember Lumumba in his grave! Remember South Africans now in jail!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bess and which have been covered uncomplainingly by most of the great African- American recording artists of the twentieth century, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and Aretha Franklin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000 that white youth aged 12–17 are more than a third more likely to have sold illegal drugs than African American youth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The risk that African Americans would be unfairly targeted should have been of special concern to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In November of 1973 the government finally allowed Arthur Ashe to set foot on South African soil. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At that time, however, it was more important to us that Egypt was the only African state with an army, navy, and air force that could in any way compare with those of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Pearson used his peremptory strikes to exclude all but one of the handful of African Americans who had been summoned to serve on the jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The red blood cells of some people of African descent look like sickles or crescent moons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other peoples, including most Africans, have thrown off European colonial domination but remain far behind in wealth and power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shooter was in a gang of American kids; Tito and his fellow Liberians, who identified themselves as members of a gang called the Africans, were walking on the wrong turf. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Walter vehemently disagreed, suggesting that the Indians, Coloureds, and Africans were inextricably bound together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Why did you call Solomon a flying African?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the students of African heritage—well, I’ll never get over how the African displays his emotions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Germs thus acquired ultimately from domestic animals played decisive roles in the European conquests of Native Americans, Australians, South Africans, and Pacific islanders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this particular rural Southern community, the population was about 27 percent black, but African Americans made up only 10 percent of the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, for someone who loves African safaris. I don’t think you should think about it too much.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were jokes to illustrate each African trait. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A new candidate appeared, the man who would become the city’s first African American mayor, Coleman A. Young. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘A souvenir photo. I looked at all of them, the ones before and the ones after, but I couldn’t find any with Salim in. This is the one with the Japanese and the African ladies.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the old days,” Annabeth said, “they called this area the Pillars of Hercules. The Rock was supposed to be one pillar. The other was one of the African mountains. Nobody is sure which one.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Austronesian colonists of Madagascar reached India from Indonesia by that eastern trade route and then fell in with the westward trade route to East Africa, where they joined with Africans and discovered Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and my father brought a curious blend of Jewish-European and African- American distrust and paranoia into our house. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My skin is darker than even the paintings of African queens hanging in tourist shops, same paintings my mom would buy so she could hang on her bedroom walls. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each word was a garbled hiss in multiple tones, as if a swarm of African killer bees had learned to speak English in unison. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

South Africa was for Africans, and no one else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manifesto utterly rejected the notion of trusteeship, the idea that the white government somehow had African interests at heart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

NM: Africans have no vote in this country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

White resentment against the African American newcomers was present from the start, and tensions continued to mount. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered what would have been the situation had he been playing against a white South African. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly we heard the distant music of a lone bugle and then the strains of a brass band accompanied by the steady beating of African drums. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result was the all-too-familiar course of the last two millennia of South African history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many African American women joined these widespread clubs and participated in what amounted to a grassroots campaign to gain the vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And there was white resentment also over the fact that a significant number of African Americans had moved into previously segregated white neighborhoods. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Voting rights were taken away from African Americans, and a series of racially restrictive laws enforced the racial hierarchy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to Hutchison, Boukreev “was bent over, retching, about a hundred feet from the South African’s tent. When I asked if he needed help, he answered, ‘No! Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had joined African Doctors for Africa, volunteering her time on two-week medical missions, and on her trip to Sudan, she met Kweku, a divorced Ghanaian doctor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a library book on African public health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front of a man’s startled eyeball. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wouldn’t care if my parents were Caucasian or African American either. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That same strong current made it easy to bring slaves across the Atlantic to Brazil, and over the next four hundred years some three million Africans were taken to Brazil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Behind the reverend’s mask of severity was a gentle, broad-minded individual who believed fervently in the importance of ed-ucating young African men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Anansi tales, Gum Baby was a doll Anansi used to trap an African fairy while he was on a quest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got on a lime-green African dashiki with tiny golden swirls stitched on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

So I went in her room and took a book with a faded blue cover, called Equiano’s Travels, or the Life of Gust aims Vassa the African. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is also why the Civil Rights Movement initially met significant resistance among some African Americans in the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its population, drawn from all African language groups, was well adapted to city life and politically conscious. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the court that I was not a Communist and had always regarded myself as an African patriot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I confess I imagined that I was looking at the uniforms of the South African Defense Force. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wardresses had never known there was even such a species as an African lawyer or doctor, and regarded me as an exotic creature. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women’s rights advocate Frances Dana Barker Gage worried about the status of African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because African Americans were poor, they frequently could not pay poll taxes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If it had not already been so, race became the sine qua non of South African society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the blacks of the Free African Society—the only ones actually doing anything in an organized, citywide way—were coming down with the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A number of African American performers, among them Roland Hayes, Alberta Hunter, and Josephine Baker, escaping racism in the United States, had enjoyed successful careers in England and France. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But never had there been movement of African Americans on so enormous a scale. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Robert asked me to give them an account of my African tour, which I did gladly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I was a South African nationalist, not a Communist, that nationalists came in every hue and color, and that I was firmly committed to a nonracial society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I insisted that all African prisoners must have long trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single African crop originated south of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several white South African players, among them Ray Moore, had volunteered to help him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Africans, too, had migrated to the cities, where they became clerks, teachers, or servants in wealthy households. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was African American, stood almost six feet tall, and wore a white turban on her head and a gray dress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Big Ma had no use for anything African. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, surveys consistently show that African Americans are generally less supportive of harsh criminal justice policies than whites, even though blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

With the act’s passage, African Americans finally gained the full political power so long denied them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Tantsi was an elderly fellow, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the acting president of the Transvaal ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, as I began to learn and speak more English, the African American kids started accusing me of sounding “white.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Driving, in those days, was a man’s business; very few women, especially African women, were to be seen in the driver’s seat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to then I thought the only music was American pop and African vibes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad was the only Asian in like a hundred-mile radius. The next town over was like ninety-six percent African American, so I saw nonwhite people all the time, but I was definitely an anomaly.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Particularly surprising is the large number of species of African and American mammals that were never domesticated, despite their having Eurasian close relatives or counterparts that were domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t the rest of the world know about the suffering and deaths caused by apartheid? Aren’t white South Africans aware of the oppressive nature of the regime they always vote for?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, they even played some black men, though my father pointed out to us in the car home that they were African blacks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gullah was a language of English mixed with different West African languages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Normally, this was the duty of die African police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The Free African Society is having a meeting about the fever. It should prove a lively gathering. I’ll return in time for supper.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would mix in traditional English Christmas songs with African ones, and include a few protest songs — the authorities did not seem to mind or perhaps know the difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This strategy worked to some extent for a segment of the African American community, particularly those who had access to education and relative privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under the United Party, the syllabus for African secondary schools and white secondary schools was essentially the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But something inside me told me that this was probably the only opportunity I’d ever have in this world to tell white South Africans the truth about black life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My tribe’s migration came amid the time of European colonialism, and life was violent and turbulent across the region, as Africans were seized as slaves and forced into hard labor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was the third South African since the end of the Second World War to be so honored by the Nobel committee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Huang Ha, a most perceptive, and also most militant man, focused upon the efforts of the West to divide Africans from the peoples of African heritage elsewhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised by how small the emperor appeared, but his dignity and confidence made him seem like the African giant that he was. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an act of pride I told her that I was determined to change all that by becoming the first black South African to win Wimbledon. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us the best markets to find African food, and introduced us to other African families in Rochester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Similarly, simple African villagers who have never left their remote homes may not be particularly surprised by their first sight of an airplane: it is outside their comprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This African patriot had helped found the organization in 1912, and casting my vote near his grave site brought history full circle, for the mission he began eighty-two years before was about to be achieved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nelson says everybody’s got their own little God here to protect them, special African ones that live in the little tiny thing they wear around their necks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the negotiations preceding new dispensations in African states like Zimbabwe and Angola, which required outside mediators, we in South Africa were settling our differences among ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kennedy had a reputation as a hanging judge, having sent a group of twenty-three Africans to the gallows for the murder of two white policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became a role model, inspiring generations of African American performers who followed her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I think she thinks Mr. Ram is African. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But it’s true: Sycorax, his mother, was of North African background.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It is illegal to export chimpanzees from most African countries, so the dealers smuggle them out in tiny boxes, often with misleading labels. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jared: Well, for one, people of African descent are obviously included in the application of the quote now. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,” Master said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no such thing as African culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was an unparalleled situation in the country’s history: in the South African parliamentary system, the leader of the majority party becomes the head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone, meanwhile, had dug up my senior thesis from Princeton, written more than two decades earlier—a survey that looked at how African American alumni felt about race and identity after being at Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d made a point of including the Tuskegee Airmen, the history-making African American pilots and ground crews who fought in World War II, among his guests. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Cane sugar had brought millions of Africans into slavery, then helped foster the movement to abolish the slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nurses and doctors, weeping relatives, and volunteers from the Free African Society whispered their sorrows. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the earliest days of colonial settlement and black slavery, African Americans have faced violence and setbacks even as progress has been made. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And many Black African countries feared that an independent Biafra would trigger other secessions and so supported Nigeria. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before the parade, an African American sorority from Howard University asked to march with the college women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bottom line, it’s been over two centuries, and African Americans are still getting a raw deal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were African doctors who were paid by the American embassy to screen immigrants to the United States. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

More intriguing was my early discovery that there was such a thing as an African American elite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Catherine’s birthday party was attended by many friends, French, Haitian, and African, including current and former PIH-ers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we’ll see, that reality was as fraught with consequences for African history as was the absence of native domestic plants in subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Traveling around the world today, I meet other mixed South Africans all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Whites were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I then spent about a fortnight on a sugar plantation in Natal living with a group of African laborers and their families in a small community called Tongaat, just up the coast from Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taught for years in the Orange Free State, learned Afrikaans, and came to see Afrikaner nationalism as a prototype of African nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But as long as they could still see Africans as property, they could not treat Haitians as equally brave and courageous human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The four Africans drawed back once they saw that gun and the way it was jumping ’round in my hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The PAC presented a manifesto and a constitution, along with Sobukwe’s opening address, in which he called for a “government of the Africans by the Africans and for the Africans.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during the Red Summer that African Americans began to organize and fight back against white violence and oppression. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Frustration and anger were boiling over in the largely African American inner cities, leading to riots and brutal confrontations between the protestors and police. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I drove, I imagined the hiding places of General De Wet’s army and wondered whether they would someday shelter African rebels. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she could not see the picture with the cracked frame or the fresh African lilies in the oriental vase. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bananas and other tropical Asian crops for which Africa’s climate is eminently suitable, and which today are among the most productive staples of tropical African agriculture, were unable to reach Africa by land routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a fairly consistent finding is that punitiveness and hostility almost always increase when people are primed—even subliminally—with images or verbal cues associated with African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Not anymore. In an African home, dogs sleep outside. People sleep inside.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every week we interviewed old women who brewed African beer as a way to supplement their tiny incomes, who now faced jail terms and fines they could not afford to pay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later, I would draw up contracts for some of the firm’s African clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They always got involved with my slumber parties, getting my friends to play African card games, teaching them dance moves and then laughing at them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hannibal enlisted tamed African elephants in his unsuccessful war against Rome, and ancient Egyptians may have tamed giraffes and other species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since those are the oldest West African crops, all modern southern Nigerian languages inherited the same original set of words for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Black minstrelsy was the first large-scale opportunity for African Americans to enter show business. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the political front, the government was pursuing its standard divide-and-rule strategy in attempting to separate Africans from Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also began to understand why hair is such an important issue for African American women. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The detractors asserted that the movie was an example of Western propaganda that sought to erase the fact that Cleopatra was an African woman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, King specifically stated on numerous occasions that he believed special—even preferential—treatment for African Americans may be warranted in light of their unique circumstances. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The average African, I said, was still cautious about joint action with Indians and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believes in many gods just as African slaves did. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

That early date is suspiciously close to dates for the arrival of Near Eastern ironworking techniques in Carthage, on the North African coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you got the angry African in there,” Sierra said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When Mum had to go back to England after four months to manage things at home, the Africans wanted, in turn, to help me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk,” she says, shaking her hips like she’s doing some African dance. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of Alexandra’s streets were filled by black faces, many of them as black as coal, full-blooded Africans. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, when mass communication for Africans was primitive or nonexistent, politics were parochial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It literally means “apartness” and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met most of the firm’s staff on my first day in the office, including the one other African employee, Gaur Radebe, with whom I shared an office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the poverty, Sophiatown had a special character; for Africans, it was the Left Bank in Paris, Greenwich Village in New York, the home of writers, artists, doctors, and lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

God says the Africans are the Tribes of Ham. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africans of my generation — and even today — generally have both an English and an African name. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, Dr. Xuma and other African leaders spoke at several meetings and along with the Youth League gave full moral support to the struggle of the Indian people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaur was indeed a “troublemaker,” in the best sense of that term, and was an influential man in the African community in ways that Mr. Sidelsky did not know or suspect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that day, white South Africans celebrate the defeat of the great Zulu leader Dingane at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost too embarrassed to explain—especially to Nathan, who, because he was very, very dark skinned, never had to worry about Africans killing him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The list of diseases and their insect carriers, or vectors, includes typhus and body lice, plague and rat fleas, African sleeping sickness and tsetse flies, various fevers and ticks, and innumerable others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A lady, elegant in her bright pink-and-purple-printed African dress with a matching head wrap stands up, her body stiff with anger. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Among the men put with us was George Peake, one of the founders of the South African Coloured People’s Organization, a Treason Trialist, and most recently a member of the Cape Town City Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an American researcher stationed in Kenya calling him to report that the South Africans had found something very queer in Musoke’s blood: He’s positive for Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No African Americans were allowed inside the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In African culture there’s legal marriage and traditional marriage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Black South Africans realized that the ANC was no longer an organization of passive resistance, but a powerful spear that would take the struggle to the heart of white power. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We chose December 16 to show that the African had only begun to fight, and that we had righteousness — and dynamite — on our side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fate befell African pygmies and many other hunter-gatherer populations displaced by farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So long as some readily identifiable African Americans are doing well, the system is largely immunized from racial critique. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since “independence” was foisted on the Transkei, the tens of thousands of Xhosas living in Crossroads were to be stripped of their South African citizenship and deported to the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some other desis, an African American family, a few people who look like they might be from the Middle East. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In every great change in the lives of African Americans we see the hand of events that were beyond our individual control, events that were not unalloyed goods. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, Clyde emerged in a pair of denims and a T-shirt advertising a South African rock group. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You think you wants to pull us free of these chains more than me and them Africans does? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Professor Z. K. Matthews was the very model of the African intellectual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it, one in every five Africans is Nigerian?” he asked, still smiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The whole issue of Santa Claus is a rather contentious one when it comes to African Christmas, a matter of pride. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Exercise was unusual for African men of my age and generation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kwaito, a South African mix of hip-hop and house music, blared from cars that passed us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On April 26, Duma Nokwe, the first African advocate in the Transvaal, rose in court and made the sensational announcement that the accused were instructing defense counsel to withdraw from the case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backlash against the gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Included in the historic development was the election of Carol Mosely Braun, the first African American woman US senator in history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Enslaved Africans crossed the stormy Atlantic chained together and packed into airless cargo-holds in groups of four to five hundred. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The National objected to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and favored educated female suffrage; the American supported female suffrage and did not oppose voting rights for any African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I told them that whites were Africans as well, and that in any future dispensation the majority would need the minority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

African prehistory is a puzzle on a grand scale, still only partly solved. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans, as a group, are no better off than they were in 1968 in many respects. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the era of mass incarceration, poor African Americans are not given the option of great schools, community investment, and job training. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While American blacks of African descent originated mainly from Africa’s west coastal zone, similar peoples traditionally occupied East Africa as well, north to the Sudan and south to the southeast coast of South Africa itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a curiously rambling farewell address, he accused cabinet members of a breach of trust, of ignoring him and of playing into the hands of the African National Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left to carry on the search, but as I moved an African tribesman with a neck giraffed by iron rings waded toward me from the depths of the first mirror. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ian Smith’s white government was bolstered by the South African Defense Force, and the ANC regarded the battle in Zimbabwe as an extension of our struggle at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Frankly, I think Belgium is more concerned about the threat of an African takeover,” he said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liberals urged Verwoerd to offer concessions to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South African courts, evidence from the witness box can be given only in the form of an answer to a question. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment of my arrival, he had just finished putting somebody’s hat into black long-clothes, like an African baby; so he held out his hand for mine. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t these African women keep their salon clean and ventilated? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As he pursued pre-med studies, he began making friends among African American, Asian, and Hispanic students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Those advocating an African solution might profitably study the recent English efforts to establish a black colony in Sierra Leone, where most of the freed blacks died or were enslaved by the local African tribes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In this sweeping international epic, black and white American soldiers protect each other under enemy fire in the African desert. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Muslim’s “X” symbolized the true African family name that he never could know. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the rest of Africa, most African leaders could understand the views of the PAC better than those of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outline of the West African coast stood out vividly in his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The government wanted to control the movements of all Africans, and such control was far more difficult in freehold urban townships, where blacks could own property, and people came and went as they pleased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I could be with a group of people who were all really knowledgeable about African mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He started mumbling some African talk against it then commenced to crying in quiet jerking noises that made his teeth rub up against my skin and made the chains on his arms and legs rattle. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Behind him stood a barber, a slave, I assumed because of his African skin, with grizzled hair and an apron. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Africans died of malnutrition, overwork, or injuries inflicted by punishments—and were merely replaced by a fresh crop from the slave boats. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But, as one of today’s most inspirational African American leaders, Bryan Stevenson, has declared, “Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when others are quiet.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Throughout our history, there have been African Americans who, for a variety of reasons, have defended or been complicit with the prevailing system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My dad was like a thirteen-thousand-pound elephant freaking out over an itty-bitty African pygmy mouse. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, as I learned more about American history, I started to understand more about what it meant to be African American, and the ongoing and complex fight for equality. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Our former question about apples or Indians becomes a question of zebras or Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that African people used to have the power”—she paused—“to fly?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our manifesto stated: “We believe that the national liberation of Africans will be achieved by Africans themselves. . . . The Congress Youth League must be the brains-trust and power-station of the spirit of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These suspicions were later confirmed by newspaper reports disclosing that the South African police had secretly funded Inkatha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained that the African American women were to march with the all-black contingent at the back of the parade. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He once asked me to tell him about my African trip and I simply glossed over it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Emmett’s death made a difference. His death began the African American Civil Rights Movement.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

It had once been surrounded by English gardens, which had partly collapsed into clay and African weeds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They point to violent crime rates in the African American community as a justification for the staggering number of black men who find themselves behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To offset the solitude, I joked around with Lorraine, my assistant, a hyperorganized, good-humored African American woman several years my senior who sat just outside my office and answered my phone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From that point forward, there was a great divide between Stanton, Anthony, and others who backed educated suffrage, and those who supported working for African American suffrage first and female suffrage afterward. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But very different peoples may have occupied much of modern black Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago, and so-called African blacks themselves are heterogeneous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And they weren’t all white and European looking either—she saw African faces, Asian, Hispanic. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as I left Healdtown at the end of the year, I saw myself as a Xhosa first and an African second. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am a member of the African National Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not the concept of African Nationalism expressed in the cry, “Drive the white man into the sea.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last batch of African crops is also adapted to wet climates but provides the biggest surprise of Figure 19.3. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That could have been the precursor to an independent African discovery of iron metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My arrival caused quite a sensation, as many of the people had never before seen an African lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mission schools trained the clerks, the interpreters, and the police-men, who at the time represented the height of African aspirations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not claim, as African savages might be able to claim, that no one had brought him the gospel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the middle of one night in 1975, some African rebels from Zaire crossed the lake in a motorboat and captured four of the students who were working at Gombe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She sounded like the African American kids—in other words, the black kids from America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If Ebola lives in African game animals—in leopards or lions or in Cape buffalo—it might have traveled to the Philippines that way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Lord is benevolent. But that poor African bird can’t be relieved of what you’ve taught it. It’s an innocent creature that can only repeat what it hears. The damage is done.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because she was an African American, she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Helman, the firm’s senior partner, was involved with African causes long before they became popular or fashionable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government, in order to keep Africans in the countryside or working in the mines, maintained that Africans were by nature a rural people, ill suited for city life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live in an area where Asians, Latinos, and African Americans are the majority. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The team discovered three surviving nuns and one priest, along with a few devoted African nurses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the African girl, who surely had no idea what her future held. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ismail and Monty, however, were disturbed by my belief that the ANC needed to take the lead among the Congress Alliance and make statements on its own concerning affairs that affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one visiting the website would learn that the mass incarceration of African Americans had already eviscerated many of the hard-earned gains it urged its members to protect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

None of the Fugees had heard of a gang called the Africans, and many thought Tito had been bluffing to frighten the American boy when he claimed to be in such a gang. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I then truly realized that I was in a country ruled by Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only later was I moved by the broad sweep of African history, and the deeds of all African heroes regardless of tribe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know some people would say “Now, Joyce, it’s not every day one finds an African American in advanced placement and honors courses.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Nelson,” he would say, “what do you have against us? We are all fighting the same enemy. We do not seek to dominate the ANC; we are working within the context of African nationalism.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The housemaster was the delightful Reverend S. S. Mokitimi, who later became the first African president of the Methodist Church of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt her African and Taino ancestors feel like it’s ‘whatever,’” Tee said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Percentage of juveniles who are African American: 16. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All they had was the determination, courage and resiliency so typical of African children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans line up to register as voters at the Dallas County Courthouse during the 1965 Selma, Alabama, voting rights campaign. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enthusiasts proposed a dozen groups as the ancestral stock: Phoenicians, Basques, Chinese, Scythians, Romans, Africans, “Hindoos,” ancient Greeks, ancient Assyrians, ancient Egyptians, the inhabitants of Atlantis, even straying bands of Welsh. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While one’s first association to African antelope is “vast dense herds spreading across the horizon,” in fact the males of those herds space themselves into territories and fight fiercely with each other when breeding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two days before the stay-at-home, the government staged the greatest peacetime show of force in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The South African towns of Cape Town and Durban were very beautiful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am prepared to pay the penalty even though I know how bitter and desperate is the situation of an African in the prisons of this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the university, teachers had shied away from topics like racial oppression, lack of opportunities for Africans, and the nest of laws and regulations that subjugate the black man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaver's white drop couldn't stop the spread of African cells. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at that meeting that Oliver uttered prophetic words: “Today it is the Communist Party. Tomorrow it will be our trade unions, our Indian Congress, our APO, our African National Congress.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found an empty table in the African American literature section. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

J. B. Marks, a longtime member of the ANC and the Communist Party, was then president of the African Mine Workers Union. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would occasionally take a sip of wine in order to make my guests feel comfortable, but the only wine I can stomach is a South African semisweet wine, which is actually very sweet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, very few Africans had Western houses and they were considered a mark of great wealth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I stressed again the need for unity between Africans and Afro-Americans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detective Jeremiah Mollson, one of the few African members of the Special Branch, claimed to recall lines verbatim from ANC speeches that he attended. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a young man, when I joined the African National Congress, I saw the price my comrades paid for their beliefs, and it was high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door was opened by a pleasant-featured woman of forty or so who looked North African. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You might make an application to a South African library for a book on contract law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent most of her time in Pittsburgh moving between Daffodil Manor, Aunt Rose’s house, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church on Sundays, since that was the one that Aunt Rose had favored. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the direct result of the policy of white supremacy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The tentacles of South African security forces reached all the way to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was evident that the South African government didn’t want me to leave the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herskovitz says it lives on, and this evidences the resilience of our African spirit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Makanna was not the first African hero confined on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was scheduled to speak before a Congress of African Students. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z