And he was the first black director of the United States Information Agency which at the time supervised the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

At that time, however, black singers were not permitted in white opera companies in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

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

Claude McKay,Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen were three of the leading black poets during this time.

VOA: special.2011.01.20

She became one of the few black people at the time wealthy enough to give huge amounts of money to help people and organizations.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It was the first time a black singer performed regularly with an American opera group.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The law at that time required black people seated in one area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

She met other young black writers of the time, such as poet Langston Hughes.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Many eating-places in the South at that time did not serve black people.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Black musicians at the time generally stayed in black neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Most of the time, only black people attended her concerts.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

"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

(SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE PLAYING) It's time.

VOA: standard.other

The Black Satellites have battled through some adversity to reach the final, edging South Africa in extra time in the first elimination match, and surviving a pair of exciting 3-2 games that came down to the wire in the quarter and semifinals.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15