It's part of the folklore that after the Black Sox World Series fix of 1919, Babe Ruth saved the game.
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.
Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Al-Amoudi is no longer the richest black person in the world.
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.
The late Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller was the first black -- the first black psychiatrist in America and probably in the world.
Douglass rose up from a slave to become one of the most famous black men in the world.
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.
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.
They say neither Asian flu after the first world war nor the Black Death in the Middle Ages did much economic damage either.
In 1908, American Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title when he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a significant date as it recalls an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue in 1791, resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black independent state in the Western World.
Under the leadership of owner Jeremy Jacobs and Coach Julien, this team has shown a commitment to the game and to each other that is a testament to them, but obviously also a testament to fans who cheer for the black and gold all around the world.
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As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
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.
Kingston played the final quarter of Ghana's win over Sudan last weekend - a victory which secured the Black Stars a place in the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.
For Hank, the world was black and white: good guys and bad guys.
It recently edged into the black and is the world's most visited Web site if you don't count search services like Yahoo!
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.
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.
Cecil has indicated he would love to see the two best horses in the world face each other, although Black Caviar's trainer, Peter Moody, remains cautious about exposing his mare over Frankel's preferred distance of a mile on the undulating Goodwood track.
South Africa has been the focal point of poaching because it has the largest population of rhinos in the world, with 1, 916 black rhinos and 18, 780 white rhinos, the conservation group said.
The fast bowler, who has been in exile here since his black-armband protest during the World Cup in February, has said the tour should go ahead.
The gale howled and scuffled about gigantically in the darkness, as though the entire world were one black gully.
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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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