It was here that the pillars of our democracy were built, often by black hands.
Today, we jump ahead to the man who often headlines Black History Month: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When turning the page of a document, it would often flash black several times before displaying the new text.
The book you hold in your hand is my attempt to wrestle with the creative cultural expressions of often degraded black youth that have garnered them international acclaim.
Mr Scafi's book illustrates beautifully (though, sadly, all too often in black and white) how Eden shifted from the centre of maps to the periphery, and ultimately to the margins.
Holder also argues that other movements for social change -- the feminist and antiwar movements most notably -- took their cue from the noble efforts of often unsung black Americans who gave their lives unselfishly to improve the lot of their brothers and sisters, and thus, the lot of the nation.
The boys wear tight black jeans and muscle shirts, often topped with a black leather jacket.
They said he had often worn a black hat with a scarf covering his face.
In the audit committee's favour, however, the report says that Lord Black often misled the board, and that its members co-operated fully with the company's investigation.
Friends and family saw her finger had been broken, she was often left with black eyes and bruises to her back and shoulders, but she did not contact police, jurors heard.
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"We often think of black holes pulling in matter, but actually what we observe with our current instrumentation is matter flying out, " said Timothy Kallman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in a statement.
Pure bred Herdwick lambs are born largely black, often with tips of white on their ears.
Black colleges often take on students who might not otherwise go to university.
During the Civil Rights struggle black men often found themselves in the jaws of police dogs sicced on them by racist Southern white cops.
Often swimming in dirty black water to rescue the old and the sick, people were forced to climb skyscrapers in the crippling heat and carry the helpless down numerous flights of steps.
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Gates still adopts personas, but they're more often modeled after historic black characters like South Carolina slave potter Dave Drake, who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read.
Anthony Pinn of Rice University acknowledges that black liberation preaching often sounds angry.
Like sunshine stealing back the colours from a poster in a window, history often turns our memories into black and white.
Back-to-school shopping often consisted of sifting through black trash bags of hand-me-downs.
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Seker said she often comes across wonderfully made black independent films that just aren't able to get big-studio backing or distribution deals.
Predominantly black neighbourhoods are often a long way from where jobs are concentrated, in largely white suburbs, so those without cars cannot get to them.
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After the color line broke in baseball, when there was still chiding by the fans and some players and there were already black stars like Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks, the black players were often isolated socially.
Black churchgoers, of course, often do the same thing at Sunday-morning services, and I suspect that the amenlike responses of black theatergoers are a not-so-distant echo of that old-time religion.
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In addition to being the easiest to read, black and white is often the most visually striking combination.
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In addition, she says black children are too often overlooked.
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Yet amid this success stands a cruel irony: too many American schools are still separate and unequal, with black and Latino students often stuck in rotten, overcrowded, underfunded classrooms.
While Anthony Mackie is often cast as the virtuous token black guy in ensemble pictures (see The Gangster Squad, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, or The Adjustment Bureau), here he gets to cut loose a little playing a genuine rogue.
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Christmas Island, around 220 miles south of Java and around 1, 600 miles from the Australian mainland, is a front line for Australia's border protection and a black spot for the often rickety boats that smugglers use to transport people seeking asylum.
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The rare black-faced impala is often viewed here too, as are herds of Gemsbok, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe and rhino.
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