It is the story of a black woman's search for happiness and her true identity, during twenty-five years and three marriages.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She is a woman who looks very white but is categorized as black in that system of the South.

事实是，她虽比较白,但还是一个南方的黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The test of this then is to have blind auditions where people do their auditions behind a screen so you can't tell whether they're man or a woman, or for that matter, white or black or Asian or whatever.

然后他们进行闭幕试演以作测试,演奏的人被一块屏风挡住,看不出演奏的是男人还是女人，或者白人还是黑人，亚洲人还是其他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Samuel Clifton said she was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

She said when white audiences saw her, they were busy seeing their own idea of a black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In two thousand seven, she became the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

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

Miss Jordan was the first black woman to give an opening speech at the Democratic Convention.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She knew then that if another black woman could play the piano so could she.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

A tall black woman is singing in a concert hall.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

In high school,Barbara heard a black woman lawyer speak.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

I am a black woman.I'm free."

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Instead,she was a fierce, black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The fact she was black and a woman did not seem to slow Barbara Jordan's rise.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

One woman has black skin, another has white skin and the third has yellow skin.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The Lady in Black raised her head suddenly and quickly looked into the woman's face.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Here is one of their top American hits, "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress),"

VOA: special.2010.03.19

It is her picture. I went to a little black shelf that held a small picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

He defends a black man wrongfully accused of raping a white woman.

VOA: special.2010.07.08