She was a businesswoman, the first female African American to become very rich.
VOA: special.2010.03.28
For a few weeks, I was able to recognize that people weren't looking at me as African American or black.
几周之后,我才发现,人们并非,把我当做黑人看待。
I mean it is still like a real big cultural mecca for African American people in New York City.
对于身在纽约的美国黑人来说,这里仍然是个真正的文化麦加圣地。
At a community forum Saturday, people spoke about the singer and his complicated relationship with the African American community.
VOA: standard.2009.06.28
That is "congruent," congruent according to a theory that says that people, both African Americans and white Americans, have biases to favor white Americans over African Americans.
这就是”一致“,与理论所说的一致,不管是黑人还是白人,都会偏向于白人,而不是黑人。
The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.
VOA: standard.2010.02.18
Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.
说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区
She both loved and respected Horne, who was the first African American to land a major Hollywood contract, at a time when blacks were cast only in subservient roles.
VOA: standard.2010.05.15
And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the African american community and other minority communities.
在美国,肥胖症是一个严重的问题,尤其在非裔美国人和,其它少数民族群体中
The Libyan leader has also warned that the ICC is "selective" in meting out justice, and that it is "employing a policy of double standards in targeting African and third-world states."
VOA: standard.2009.03.26
One offer of one more idea which is to take a figure who we all know about, but who we view as, maybe a civil rights hero or an African-American hero, or a Christian hero, or an American hero and turn into a global interfaith hero.
再给大家提供一个重要观点,那就是选择一位众所周知的人物,但是我们可能将他视作民权运动英雄,或是非裔美国人英雄,或是基督教英雄,或是美国英雄,然后转变为一位全球跨信仰英雄。
Bill Wheeler, a decorated Tuskegee combat pilot, remembered the joy Horne brought to his fellow African American servicemen during her visits to their Army Air base in Alabama between 1943 and 1945.
VOA: standard.2010.05.15
One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯
It is a mostly African American city that has suffered economic hardship for several decades, a stark contrast to the fame and wealth the Jackson family attained as a result of successful music careers after they left the city.
VOA: standard.2009.07.11
Yeah, a lot of African music like Congolese music and music from Mali.
很多非洲音乐,像刚果乐和马里的音乐。
Mothers learn to carry preterm babies in front instead the traditional African way of carrying a baby, on the mother's back.
VOA: special.2009.10.26
And so there was a dispute and the pharmaceutical company sued the South African government to try to prevent their buying the cheap generic, as they saw it, pirated version of an AIDS drug.
因此这存在着纠纷,制药公司起诉了南非政府,以阻止他们购买这些低价的非专利药,在他们看来,这些都是盗版的艾滋病药。
President Obama says the attacks show that extremists have no respect for African lives or efforts for a better future.
VOA: special.2010.07.17
If it's an African American or a good word, say "left."
如果是黑人或好的词,就说”左“
And President Yoweri Museveni recently joined other east African leaders in calling for a mission with twenty thousand troops.
VOA: special.2010.07.17
I mean, if you do the--If you look at the results for the study, it turns out that there is an association as bias to view white Americans as positive and African Americans as negative but it shows up in half a second difference.
如果你看这些研究的结果,你会发现人们有一种偏见,把白人和积极的意义联系在一起,把黑人与消极的意义联系在一起,你只有看这半秒的差别,才能发现这种偏见。
The many traditions of North African music she listened to as a child had a big influence on her.
VOA: special.2010.08.11
If it's an African American or a bad word, a negative word, I want you to shout out "right," this side, "right."
如果是黑人,不好的词,或贬义词,你们就大叫喊”右“,这边,”右“
And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.
VOA: special.2009.03.08
But when their recommendations are so-so, when it's a judgment call, the subjects are significantly more likely to hire the white American than the African American.
但如果他们的推荐信不是很好,这时就需要主观判断,实验对象雇用白人的几率,就会远远高于黑人。
Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.
VOA: special.2009.01.28
You see the African-American individuals have a somewhat lower risk, although not a lot, from the white people individuals in this study, but the Mexican-Americans have elevated risk compared to the other two races.
非裔美国人患病风险相对较低,尽管在这项研究中,他们与白人之间的差异并不显著,但与这两个种族相比,墨西哥裔美国人患病风险则比较高
In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.
VOA: special.2010.05.23
Also, it can't be an accident that it's an African American family depicted in here, so there are a lot of interesting things going on in this little video clip.
此外,广告刻画了一个非裔美国人,家庭的画面,也绝对不是巧合,所以这个广告短片里,有很多耐人寻味之处
The quote goes on: "As a race, the African is inferior to the white man.
他说道,"从人种这方面说,黑人比白人低劣
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