Articles related to "Black America"

Currently more than 50% of young African-Americans are unable to graduate from high school and 1 in 9 males end up in prison.

Race and class issues are deeply rooted in the United States. Obama's race challenge ahead will be long and hard. America must use its hegimony to lead in race relations.

Barack Obama's "Bitter" comments ignited a firestorm when they became public. But Obama has mentioned Bitterness previously and was praised for doing so.

Barack Obama quotes as well as quick facts about America's new president.

Tresconsciousness is internal divide between American values, Black middle class values and the values of the greater Black community.

Read more than two centuries of African-American love letters from slaves, Harlem Renaissance writers, celebrities, and everyday people.

A profile of the late August Wilson, whose Pulitzer-winning plays documented the African American experience in the 20th century.

As a shipping magnet and community leader, Paul Cuffee helped influence American colonial perspectives on how people of color should be accepted and treated in society.

Barack Obama is famous for his speeches which have have electrified audiences everywhere, helping him win the 2008 election. Here are extracts from his campaign speeches.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Beloved" is named best American fiction of the past 25 years by the "New York Times"

Using Barack Obama's success in the Democratic Presidential Primary race as an example, this article defines and questions whether or not America is truly post-racial.

On March 11th 1959 Raisin In The Sun opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore theatre. It was a landmark moment for its writer and the African American community.

The National Urban League, NAACP and the Black Leadership Forum combined efforts to rally support behind U.S. national health care reform with much success.

It is no exagerration to say that certain films define their specific era. Films of the 1980's were no exception, and some stand above the rest in quality and impact.

Although most African American men are excited about Obama's presidency, discrimination in the judicial system and workplace still exists in most of their lives.

Edward P. Jones is a master storyteller. The profound realism of his settings and the ingenuity of his symbolisms conflate to make reading his works a joy to behold.

The profundity of Edward Jones's art charts many epistemological paths of deconstruction. In his short stories, the wolf symbolizes evil and the woods prefigure life.