They urged her to become a music teacher, because they said that was the only good job for a black woman at that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

"He was young and I had a very good time drawing his picture because I used a lot of reference material that were paintings made of him at different times in his life.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

That means they're college eligible. So part of the reason college enrollments are at an all-time high is because the pool of youth that's eligible to go to college is also at an all-time high."

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"And so they would travel to places where certainly white people in the thirties and forties would not work too much in black communities, because there was so much antagonism between black and white at that time racism toward African Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

African Union chief Jean Ping told those at the conference that the money is coming at an opportune time, because African growth was "totally compromised" by the global financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

He describes his reaction to the arrests. "Happy because I think the parents and the community took the right actions but sad because members of the Muslim community, kids that I might have crossed paths with at some time, got into that false ideology,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.20