He would be outraged by the kind of racism that routinely profiles young black and Latino males and fills our nation's prison system with black and brown bodies.
But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation.
The end of French rule meant the colony of Saint Domingue, renamed Haiti after its original Taino Indian name, became the first black-led independent nation in the world.
My friend runs a mentoring organization for black boys in Prince George's County, Maryland, the nation's most affluent black community.
Mandela urged nonviolent solutions to the South African government's political, economic and social oppression of the nation's black majority.
From slavery to the civil rights movement, black social action offered the nation the opportunity -- and template -- for transforming democratic rhetoric into uplifting deeds that brought America closer to its founding principles.
Douglas Wilder became the nation's first black governor since Reconstruction with his win in Virginia.
And most of the nation's historically black colleges have maintained a large African-American enrollment.
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Some of the nation's top black activists and politicians attend the State of the Black Union.
He is that rare thing, a black politician who addresses the whole nation, not just an ethnic enclave.
Barack Obama said Tuesday he is taking the initial step in a presidential bid that could make him the nation's first black to occupy the White House.
Malcolm, who achieved fame in the early sixties as a compelling spokesman for the black-pride philosophy of the Nation of Islam, is an unlikely hero for a big-studio prestige picture: he begins as a predatory street criminal, becomes a studious Muslim ascetic, and fulfills himself as a scourge.
His only win with the Black Stars was at a four-nation tournament in Tunisia in which Ghana defeated Madagascar on penalties.
Sonny Black Eagle adopted me into the Crow Nation during my 2008 campaign.
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We couldn't ask for a finer interpretation of black history's importance to the nation, and for a fairer or more tough-minded speech on race in America.
Farrakhan said a meeting with Lieberman would be important, calling him a possible bridge between the Nation of Islam and the black Jewish population in the United States.
But this year, two cases show that it isn't always so black-and-white to honor the nation's fallen men and women in blue.
The chief justice was ready with statistics intended to rebut such images, telling Mr. Verrilli that Massachusetts clocked the nation's lowest ratio of black turnout to that of whites, while Mississippi had the highest.
Yet a scan of her writings for the Nation are heavily focused on all things black, with an occasional article that is gender focused.
"Achebe's frank, truthful and fearless interventions in national affairs will be greatly missed at home in Nigeria because while others may have disagreed with his views, most Nigerians never doubted his immense patriotism and sincere commitment to the building of a greater, more united and prosperous nation that all Africans and the entire black race could be proud of, " the president said in a statement.
And while I was there, I was adopted into the nation by a wonderful couple, Hartford and Mary Black Eagle.
Other missives -- many packed with vitriol and anger -- provide a glimpse into the emotion that overcame the nation when Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a black teen, in Sanford, Florida, exactly one year ago.
In Dallas, he sold 523 black flags emblazoned with a skull and crossbones and "No Shoes Nation, " the title of the 2013 tour.
Raider Nation, a motley band of fans, attended games in black face paint, black cloaks and shoulder spikes.
And is it surprising to people in the Middle East that a black man could be president of what is arguably still the most powerful nation on earth?
The former wife of the president, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told mourners that if South Africa was a rainbow nation, the rainbow did not appear to include the colour black.
Mr Mandela became South Africa's first black president in the 1990s and is seen by many as father of the nation.
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They were, understandably, deeply offensive to black Americans and all others who regard segregation as a terrible stain on this Nation's history.
Mr Mandela served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is widely regarded as the father of the nation for leading the struggle against apartheid and for democracy.
He served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is regarded by many as the father of the nation.
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