The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

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* 1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina ( 2007 )

Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).

Remaining steadfast to his pedagogy, a forerunner of progressive and democratic schooling, he alienated parents in a later " parlor school " by admitting an African American child to the class, whom he then refused to expel in the face of protests.

It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic African American spiritual.

He sings the sixth and fifth verses in that order, and Stowe included another verse not written by Newton that had been passed down orally in African American communities for at least 50 years.

Anthony Heilbut, author of The Gospel Sound, states that the " dangers, toils, and snares " of Newton's words are a " universal testimony " of the African American experience.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.

The key question is whether Linnaeus's type was a South African plant or a South American plant.

* 1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon ( d. 1985 )

* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

African American Vernacular English | AAVE-influenced non-rhotic pronunciations may be African American Vernacular English | found among African Americans throughout the country.

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

There are over 100 student clubs and organizations on campus, including the college radio station WMCN, the Macalester Peace and Justice Committee, the Experimental College, Student Labor Action Coalition, African Music Ensemble, Macalester Gaming Society, Macalester Mock Trial, Mac Dems, Mac GOP, Mac Greens, Bad Comedy, Fresh Concepts, The Macalester Review: A Political Magazine, The Hegemonocle Humor Magazine, The Trads and other a cappella groups, Cheeba, MacBrews, MacBike, the Macalester Outing Club, the Macalester Climbing Club, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group ( MPIRG ), Macalester Conservation and Renewable Energy Society ( MacCARES ), Macalester International Organization ( MIO ), MacPlayers, NARAL Pro-Choice Macalester, Queer Union, Macalester for Justice in Palestine, Macalester Young Artists for Revolutionary Needlework ( MacYARN ), Mac Rugby, and Medicinal Melodies.

* ( with Mel Watkins ), African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today ( Library of Black America )

African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor.

Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards ; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.

Rupert Crosse, the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor is of Nevisian descent.

Over the years, the Best Foreign Language Film Award and its predecessors have been given almost exclusively to European films: out of the 64 Awards handed out by the Academy since 1947 to foreign language films, fifty one have gone to European films, five to Asian films, three to African films and three to films from the Americas.

The Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, adopted by the NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of Children and UNICEF at a symposium on the prevention of recruitment of children into the armed forces and on demobilization and social regeneration of child soldiers in Africa in April 1997, proposed that African Governments should adopt and ratify the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict raising the minimum age from 15 to 18, and that African Governments should ratify and implement other pertinent treaties and incorporate them into national law.

* Family Digest magazine named Morgan Stanley one of the " Best Companies for African Americans " in June 2004

In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

It was nominated for both Best Director and Original Screenplay during the 1991 Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person ever nominated for Best Director and the first African – American to be nominated for the award.

The following series of famous " floodlit friendlies ", beginning with a game against a South African XI, had a huge effect in raising the profile of the club, enthusing many such as the young Wolves fan George Best and others who were lucky enough to be able to watch the games on the BBC in some of football's first televised games.

* African Soul-The Very Best Of ( 1997 ) Mercury

Her autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing during 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography / Memoir category.

During 2009, the book received The 2009 African American Literary Award for Best Biography / Memoir.

* Best African Player in The Past Fifty Years

* African Savanna-This also earned national Best Exhibit honors.

Manu Herbstein ( born 1936 ) is the South African author of Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade ( 2001 ), which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the first time the award had been given to an electronic book.

Jean-Paul Samputu, along with his group Ingeli, won two Kora awards ( African Grammy ) for " Most Inspiring Artist " and " Best Traditional Artist " in 2003 for their performance of neo-traditional Rwandan music.

Halle Berry becomes the first African American to win Best Actress.

* Olu Oguibe, Best graduate of all time of the University of Nigeria, Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States of America

In 2008, in the South African Cartoonists Awards he won the Best Humorist Cartoon award.

* Black or African American ?, Frank Newport.

* African Black Coalition, a University of California student organization

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

It includes people who indicate their race as " Black, African Am., or Negro ," or who provide written entries such as African-American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 66. 60 % White, 11. 70 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 15. 10 % Asian, 0. 01 % Pacific Islander, 2. 10 % from other races, and 4. 30 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 8 % White, 2. 2 % Black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 3. 4 % Asian, 0. 0 % Pacific Islander, 0. 4 % from some other race, and 1. 8 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 96. 55 % White, 0. 21 % Black or African American, 0. 92 % Native American, 0. 63 % Asian, 0. 03 % Pacific Islander, 0. 28 % from other races, and 1. 38 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 91. 32 % White, 2. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 13 % Native American, 3. 23 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 1. 39 % from other races, and 1. 19 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city is 81. 1 % White, 1. 9 % Black or African American, 2. 4 % Native American, 2. 1 % Asian, 0. 2 % Pacific Islander, 9. 4 % from other races, and 2. 9 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the village was 97. 91 % White, 0. 09 % Black or African American, 0. 27 % Native American, 0. 73 % Asian, 0. 64 % from other races, and 0. 36 % from two or more races.

The state was 68. 9 % White ( 65. 3 % Non-Hispanic White Alone ), 21. 4 % Black or African American, 0. 5 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 2 % Asian, 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 3. 4 % from Some Other Race, and 2. 7 % from Two or More Races.

The racial makeup of the town was 94. 51 % White, 1. 54 % Black or African American, 0. 16 % Native American, 1. 87 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 80 % from other races, and 1. 08 % from two or more races.

* 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer ( Ladysmith Black Mambazo ) ( b. 1945 )

* The African Hebrew Israelites: New black civilisation in the promised land " article written by Lester Holloway, January 1, 2004, for Black Information Link

The racial makeup of the city was 88. 07 % White, 1. 17 % Black or African American, 0. 95 % Native American, 4. 09 % Asian, 0. 16 % Pacific Islander, 2. 86 % from other races, and 2. 69 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city is 97. 38 % White, 0. 82 % Asian, 0. 57 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, no Pacific Islanders, 0. 26 % from other races, and 0. 77 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 98. 30 % White, 0. 17 % Black or African American, 0. 70 % Native American, 0. 20 % Asian, 0. 07 % from other races, and 0. 57 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the city was 82. 4 % White, 3. 01 % Black or African American, 0. 60 % Native American, 2. 48 % Asian, 0. 12 % Pacific Islander, 3. 61 % from other races, and 2. 53 % from two or more races.