It is also referenced in the songs " Eve of Destruction ", " Will You Be There " and in the traditional African-American spiritual / folk song " Michael Row the Boat Ashore ".

They include the Newbery Medal for writing, Michael L. Printz Award for writing for teens, Caldecott Medal for illustration, Golden Kite Award in various categories from the SCBWI, Sibert Medal for informational, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for impact over time, Batchelder Award for works in translation, Coretta Scott King Award for work by an African-American writer, and the Belpre Medal for work by a Latino writer.

Michael Campbell notes that The Shirelles ' success reflected the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

However, The Cosby Show had African-American themes, such as the Civil Rights Movement, and it frequently promoted African-American and African culture represented by artists and musicians such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Miriam Makeba.

* Michael P. Anderson ( 1959 – 2003 ), African-American astronaut killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003

There is still a regrettable under-representation of artists of African, African-American, or African-European origins in the conducting profession, but there have been notable exceptions, such as Henry Lewis, Dean Dixon, James DePreist, Paul Freeman, and Michael Morgan.

Over the years, as a celebrity journalist she has interviewed virtually every African-American entertainer, including such luminaries as Michael Jackson, The Jacksons, Janet Jackson, Prince ( musician ), Brandy ( entertainer ), Queen Latifah, and thousands of others.

In 2008 Michael Nutter, with a background in business, was elected as the city's third African-American mayor.

Ebony cover photography has since its inception focused on African-American celebrities and politicians, such as Dorothy Dandridge, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Pammi Mitchell, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, Zoe Saldana, Tyrese Gibson and Tyler Perry.

Ehrlich chose as his running mate the attorney and Republican politician Michael Steele, an African-American.

* Michael B. Coleman ( JD )-first African-American mayor of Columbus, Ohio

Ehrlich's running mate was Michael Steele, an African-American lawyer who had been chairman of the Republican Party of Maryland.

During the flight, Harris became the first African-American to walk in space, while fellow astronaut Michael Foale became the first British-born spacewalker.

The show also had daytime television's only African-American villainess, Virginia Harrison, who schemed to break up lifeguard Michael Bourne and reporter Vanessa Hart so she could have Michael for herself.

Many holy individuals are associated with the Basilica, including Mother Mary Lange, Foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first order for Catholic nuns of African-American descent ; Father Michael J. McGivney, Founder of the Knights of Columbus, who was ordained at the Basilica in 1877 by Archbishop James Gibbons ; St. John Neumann, who is credited with founding America's Catholic School System ; as well as visits from at least 20 other saints or potential saints.

Michael Franti was born in Oakland, California to an Irish-German-French mother and an African-American and Native American father.

There are also native born wrestler Aja Kong, former professional basketball player Michael Takahashi and pop / r & b singer Thelma Aoyama who were all born to African-American fathers and Japanese mothers.

Responding to pressure from the African-American community, the character Lil ' Eightball ( who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a " grotesquely stereotypical black boy ") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book New Funnies ; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.

It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers ( namely Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle ) who believed that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics.

She was believed to be of both African-American and Mexican descent, but recent research by Michael Corcoran for the book / CD " He Is My Story: the Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes " ( Tompkins Square ) disproves Mexican heritage.

Other musical spoofs include comment on Mick Jagger's lips, Murphy's imitation of Stevie Wonder and the resultant unfavorable response from the African-American community, a spoof of Elvis Presley complete with an imitation of Presley's gait in his late years ( which brought some of the performance's loudest and longest applause ), a version of Teddy Pendergrass, and an imitation of Michael Jackson complete with reference to his emotional sensitivity.

The opera is punctuated with chorales which refer back to Johann Sebastian Bach, and which are also reminiscent of the African-American spirituals used for a similar purpose in Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time.

* Biographical item on William Jordan, an African-American photographer that includes the Gauley Mountain Coal Company startup timeframe

Brad Terrence Jordan ( born November 9, 1970 ), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an African-American rapper and recording artist from Houston, Texas and a member of the Geto Boys.

In 1976, Jordan, mentioned as a possible running mate to Jimmy Carter of Georgia, became instead the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Soon after the decision, five minority candidates ( dubbed the " People's Five "), including eventual winners Leland, Craig Washington and Benny Reyes ran for district seats in the Texas House of Representatives, a first for a state that, although Barbara Jordan had been a state senator, had not seen any African-American state representatives since Reconstruction.

* Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan of Texas, the first African-American congresswoman to come from the Deep South and the first woman ever elected to the Texas Senate, who had received widespread recognition as a key member of the House Judiciary Committee during President Nixon's impeachment, delivered the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.

In July to September, 1955, the year before Feather's letter, Kenton hosted the CBS summer replacement, Music 55, for which he invited Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Louis Jordan, Cab Calloway, and many other African-American artists to participate.

Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. ( born August 15, 1935 ) is an African-American lawyer, business executive and civil rights activist in the United States.

Founding member Clarence Jordan held an undergraduate degree in agriculture from the University of Georgia and wanted to use his knowledge of scientific farming “ to seek to conserve the soil, God ’ s holy earth ” and to assist Koinonia ’ s neighbors, most of whom were African-American sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

However, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a newer style, known at the time as jump blues, became popular in African-American nightclubs as played by such musicians as Cab Calloway, Big Joe Turner, Lowell Fulson, Louis Jordan, and Louis Prima.

* Biographical item on William Jordan, an African-American photographer that includes the Gauley Mountain Coal Company startup timeframe

Andrew D. McBride ( August 8, 1911-April 5, 1957 ) who died of lung cancer at age 45, was African-American, and his mother ( Ruchel Dwajra Zylska later changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky later changed to Ruth McBride Jordan )( April 1, 1921-January 9, 2010 ) was a Jewish immigrant from Poland.

Jordan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to an Italian mother and an African-American father.

It is considered a favorite trick among African-American skateboarders ..

It is considered an important expression of African-American life in the years immediately following World War I, when violent racist incidents occurred throughout the United States, but most frequently in the South.

' When he was matched with undefeated African-American sensation Joe Louis in 1936 for the German's first fight on American soil in more than two years, he was clearly the betting underdog, considered a name opponent for Louis to roll over on his route to the title.

Additionally, Hoop Dreams, a documentary that follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players, received high critical and popular acclaim and is generally considered one of the best documentary films ever made.

African-American Ralph Waldo Petey Greene ( 1931-1984 ), who started broadcasting in 1966, is considered to be the original radio shock jock in the modern era.

The name is sometimes considered an acronym for " For Us By Us ", implying the product line was produced for a primarily African-American market.

William Carney, an African-American and a sergeant with the 54th, is considered the first black recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at Fort Wagner in recovering and returning the unit's U. S. Flag to Union lines.

Saperstein decided to pick Harlem as their home city since Harlem was considered the center of African-American culture at the time, and an out-of-town team name would give the team more of a mystique.

Initially, the producers considered Louis Armstrong for the role, but to avoid the likely controversy that would surround casting an African-American to voice an ape, they instead chose Prima.

This view, sometimes called the Phillips school of slavery historiography, was considered an authoritative source on the history of American slavery during the first half of the twentieth century, despite the intense criticism by some African-American scholars for its alleged racist underpinnings.

African-American Primitive Baptist groups have been considered a unique category of Primitive Baptist with approximately 50, 000 African Americans affiliated with African-American Primitive Baptist churches as of 2005.

The term may be considered derogatory, reflecting stereotypes of African-American or Black British culture.

He wanted to do one about racism, and at first considered focusing on African Americans, with cats taking on the role of the Ku Klux Klan chasing African-American mice.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, members of The First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a theological seminary for the education of African-American clergymen.

Still, Jefferson was considered a rising star in Louisiana politics, with some even suggesting he would be his state's second African-American governor.

At her death she was considered to be the wealthiest African-American woman in America and known to be the first self-made female American millionaire.

By the mid-20th century, however, the dialect and the " old Uncle " stereotype of the narrator, was considered politically incorrect and demeaning by many African-American people, on account of what they considered to be racist and patronizing attitudes toward African-Americans.

* Lobo ( Dell Comics ), a Western comic book character considered the first African-American to star in his own book

Isaac Burns Murphy ( April 16, 1861-February 12, 1896 ) was an African-American Hall of Fame jockey, who is considered one of the greatest riders in American Thoroughbred horse racing history.

Many of Harris's vocal recordings were comic novelty " talking blues " numbers not unlike the talking numbers of African-American comedian Bert Williams, a style sometimes considered a precursor to modern rap music.

The Hill District is a collection of neighborhoods that is considered by many to be the cultural center of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an American city.

Brown, considered by many to be one of the most powerful African-American politicians in the country, only once been defeated in a run for public office.