"I literally froze up when I saw a new design from Adidas set to hit stores in August, " Dr. Boyce Watkins said in a post for the website Your Black World.
It's part of the folklore that after the Black Sox World Series fix of 1919, Babe Ruth saved the game.
This is still a black and white world, where Latinos rarely get cast in the leading role.
By the way, Festac Town was the settlement built in 1977 by Nigeria's then-military ruler, Gen Yakubu Gowon, to accommodate participants in the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture - at a time when Nigeria's major problem was not availability of money but how to spend it.
Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Al-Amoudi is no longer the richest black person in the world.
Douglass rose up from a slave to become one of the most famous black men in the world.
For Hank, the world was black and white: good guys and bad guys.
Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said Stornoway black pudding was a world-renowned delicacy that fully deserved to be given protected status.
It recently edged into the black and is the world's most visited Web site if you don't count search services like Yahoo!
This was the beginning of the process that led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic of the world.
Today, Kunene has the largest number of free-roaming black rhino in the world -- the only rhino worldwide living on communally- and traditionally-owned land without formal conservation status.
The New Zealander's optimism is fuelled by the signing of fellow countryman Kane Williamson who has just helped the Black Caps to a World Cup semi-final.
But later, after meeting drummer Max Roach and becoming immersed in the struggles of black people around the world, she earned a reputation for being a warrior.
The first skill is the ability to deal with complexity: To not see the world in black and white but to perceive the full palette of colors that make up the current situation.
It signaled not only Ghana's long-awaited arrival at football biggest global gathering but also a fulfillment of a prediction in 1990 by Cameroon legend Roger Milla that the world had not seen the best of African football until the Black Stars made it to the World Cup.
First World Brazil is broadly Southern, white and European - though there is a sizeable black middle-class - and Third World Brazil is largely to be found in the poorer North-East.
Doble asked Vilane, who was working as a game ranger, why there weren't many world-famous black mountain climbers.
He was a white man in a world dominated by black artists, but he wasn't threatened by the differences.
The gale howled and scuffled about gigantically in the darkness, as though the entire world were one black gully.
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As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
Of course, if you toss too many paint balls, the world becomes completely black, and you lose that sense of definition.
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To find no hint of personality in the black hole that is the World Wide Web can be unsettling for employers.
In 1908, American Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title when he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney.
What eventually makes the Martians' heads split is the agony of terrestrial pop music, and it is Tom Jones, not the Men in Black, who saves the world.
TVed professor of black studies, alerted the world to the latter's recent work, which turns out to be a mixture of post-structuralist mumbo jumbo, religious rhetoric and rap music.
Came to the bookstore and read to the avid interest of the black people assembled there about his chronicle of the upper middle class black people he wanted the world to know about.
Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.
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