But then I just realized, you know, as an African-American, you know, our struggle it's, you know, really close to my heart.
But even with a passport full of stamps he still remembers his hometown roots and the responsibility he feels as an African-American.
Vieux's late father, Ali Farka Toure, was celebrated as an African bluesman, but his guitar playing had a kind of mystic restraint.
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One of the assailants was described as an African-American male, approximately 18 to 22 years old, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jean shorts.
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One of the suspects was described as an African-American male, approximately 18 to 22 years old, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jean shorts.
As a lawyer, as an American, and as an African-American, it is a principle in which I believe to the very core of my being.
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This high-profile flop is an embarrassment for the IEBC, as well as a stain on the reputation of a country positioning itself as an African tech-hub.
"I realised that, even as an African person, I was more familiar with Britain and France and the USA than I was with my own continent, " she said.
And as an African-American woman, she would be a ground-breaking choice to lead an agency that has only been led by white men over the course of its 80-year history.
Being a two time AJA Radio Category Winner has lifted my status as an African journalist and it has also given me the opportunity to be a role model to others.
Speaking as an African-American, I think that the past eight years have been great for us in terms of some of the biggest strides and improvements that we've seen in our nation's history.
Does anyone that doubt that Justice Thurgood Marshall's identity as an African-American male or his experience as a civil rights lawyer shaped his judicial philosophy and influence his fellow justices some of the time?
"I have to wear sleeves and carry an umbrella, " said Lee Thomas, who wrote a memoir called "Turning White, " which discusses his physical and mental struggles as an African-American man whose skin changes because of vitiligo.
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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Nairobi says this high-profile flop is an embarrassment for Kenya's electoral authority, the IEBC, as well as a stain on the reputation of a country positioning itself as an African tech-hub.
For me, as an African more used to covering events on that wonderful yet challenged continent, there was an added poignancy as the developed and developing world seemed to merge into one terrible physical and human catastrophe.
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Even if you look at the Washington Post more recently: one weekend they did a piece on a white family in Virginia that was having exactly the same problem as an African-American family in Maryland, here in D.
"As an African-American, I could be walking home from a bar somewhere late at night and someone could look at me and shoot me and not be prosecuted to the full extent of the law because of this rule, " Ingram said.
As an African Journalist of The Year Award winner, I have received a lot of praise and respect within and outside Uganda, but I have also tried to work hard, maintain exemplary behaviour and support younger people who look up to me.
Early in the 16th century, reports of the city on the sand -- then part of the Songhay Empire -- filtered back to Europe through the Moorish diplomat and writer Leo Africanus, adding to the city's near-mythical status as an African El Dorado.
No one on the tea party express seems concerned with the vocal fringe of the crowds that come with offensive signs -- besides Nazi imagery, a poster of Obama as an African witch doctor has become popular -- or the numerous conspiracy theories that float around most tea parties.
Mr. ROBERT JOHNSON (Founder, Black Entertainment Television): As an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood, that I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book.
So while being described as an "African tiger" is a welcome recognition of how far Rwanda has come, perhaps it isn't quite right.
Don Cheadle, as a withdrawn, melancholy police detective, is the star, and the other players include Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton as an upper-class African-American couple, Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock as an L.A. district attorney and his bitchy wife, Chris (Ludacris) Bridges and Larenz Tate as carjackers, Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe as cops, and Shaun Toub as an Iranian shopkeeper who thinks everyone is out to cheat him.
Mali experienced two decades of democratic rule and was hailed as an example of African stability.
Last October Dr Williams delivered a sermon in Zimbabwe as part of an African tour to try to heal divisions within the Anglican Church.
Can this project serve as an example for other African countries?
And speaking on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, French President Francois Hollande said the number of French troops deployed would increase "so that France can make way as quickly as possible" for an African force.
It also concluded that an African-American kid with an allergic parent is twice as likely to be sensitized to an environmental allergen than an African-American kid without an allergic parent.
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