No other black leader has been as successful at building a national power base from a local following.
The Rev Al Sharpton, the most influential black leader in New York, said he continued to believe that her story was not a hoax.
Jesse Jackson, a black leader who has long held a place on the American political stage, criticized Obama in what he thought was a private comment last week.
That would leave the Democratic race as a straight fight between two candidates who offer a historic choice to America - the first black leader, or the first woman president.
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In testimony in March 1988 on the death of black leader Steve Biko in 1977, police officers who interrogated him admit they beat him but still say his death was accidental.
On his home turf of north-western Uganda, however, Amin is remembered as a black leader who stood up to whites, as a rugby-playing man of the people, and as a preacher of African economic empowerment.
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Those supporters see in the result of the night far more than the choosing of America's 44th president - they believe that in showing itself ready to vote for a black leader, America has chosen to be a better country, more equal and less divided.
We have black Ministers and the first woman and then the first black woman Leader of the Lords.
But he should be less sanguine about the criticism he is getting from another black church leader, the Reverend Floyd Flake.
In 1977, South African black civil rights leader Steve Biko died in police detention.
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Ian Johnson is a project leader for the Black Country Learning Academy which is among the winners.
Most famous is that of Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, who died in police detention in 1977.
Business leaders welcomed parts of the broader approach to empowerment set out by Cyril Ramaphosa, a black tycoon (and former union leader) whose commission on the subject reported to the government last year.
As the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, the White House is hopeful Rangel will prove influential with several other undecided House Democrats.
They included the council's budget leader Dr David Alston, Black Isle, and Thurso councillors John Rosie and Donnie Mackay.
Five marriages, four ending in divorce, the first with a man who beat her and the fourth, in 1968, with Stokely Carmichael, the leader of America's Black Panthers.
They include the predominantly black union of garbage-collectors, whose leader, Pete Matthews, feels the mayor has not treated the city's blue-collar workers with respect.
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W. de Klerk on handing over power to the elected leader of South Africa's black majority, yet you find no fault in King Hussein's minority rule in Jordan.
Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the first black woman to run a New York state legislative conference, argues that corruption is cyclical, not racial.
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Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.
Italian media compared it with the papal election, reporting "black smoke" from both chambers, indicating those inside had failed to decide on a leader.
On January 7th, he dutifully donned a black skull-cap for a reverential photo-opportunity with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the powerful Shas party.
Asked in a recent opinion poll if they believed the ANC leader to be guilty of corruption, most of the South Africans polled, black and white, said yes.
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Most recently, President Jacob Zuma has struggled to control the ANC's militant Youth League leader, Julius Malema, who plays to the gallery of poor and marginalized black South Africans.
The 17-year-old unarmed black teenager, who had been wearing a hooded sweatshirt, was killed by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman after the two got into a confrontation in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.
As these people make up the backbone of support for the African National Congress, Mr Mbeki has to be very careful not to criticise a leader in a neighbouring country who appears to be doing more to help the rural black poor.
"(Senate Democratic leader) Tom Daschle will not be a natural ally of President Bush, " says Earl Black, a political scientist and presidential scholar at Rice University.
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Lim is official leader of the opposition with a seat opposite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Parliament and a spiffy black Mercedes bought by the party.
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