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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Chaka Fattah

Experience

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

Kenneth Edmonds

African

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Nigel Dennis

African

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Elijah Cummings

Women

African

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.