General Robert Kennedy and their staffs planned, schemed, pressured the state of Alabama to let two Afro-American students attend summer school at the University of Alabama.

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And our graduation rate went up from a 64 percent this year to a 73.5. (Applause.) And that's a concern to me, in the United States that we are losing so many young men, not only Afro-American men, but all men.

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"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.

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The brilliant "Night Beat" (1957) represented the most fully realized blend of Afro-Latin dance rhythms and North American jazz that had yet been attempted.

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And what about Afro-Brazilians and their relationship to American blacks?

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But I will say this: that, you know, when we're talking about the relationship between African-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, a lot of things that I think we don't often appreciate is that African-American presence in Brazil can have even a greater impact.

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