Ibrahim Ag Idbaltanat, a descendent of slaves himself, born to a black Tuareg family in northeastern Mali, has been championing human rights and equity since the late 1970s, after becoming aware of injustices against families of slave descent by traditional slave masters, including physical violence and the confiscation of both land and herds of cattle.
It is a different story among black Africans, where children born to two black parents are three and a half times as numerous as children with one white parent.
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Mr Wright's anger is shared by many black Americans who were born in a country that denied them basic rights.
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Born in the sprawling black township of Soweto and then trained as a lawyer, he became the first black partner at Bowman Gilfillan, a prestigious commercial law firm in Johannesburg.
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But you see, when nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unmarried parents, likely to a too-young mom, that puts tremendous pressure on grandmothers (and some grandfathers), sisters and brothers to take up the slack.
Born in Milton Keynes, England, Barnett is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Born 47 years ago into a poor family that migrated to Istanbul from a province on the Black Sea coast, Mr Erdogan got his street education as a teenager peddling lemonade and simits (sesame buns) in one of Istanbul's roughest districts.
His longings first surface in a silent, hauntingly lyrical black-and-white preface that shows a bustling New York long before he was born, as well as a smiling, nameless beauty from the same era who has somehow become his most precious memory.
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And one of the facts about British-born Caribbean men that most distresses their womenfolk is that, of those in employment, more than half choose not a black partner but a white one.
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