My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democra...
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't p...
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening...
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. But there's still more we have to travel along this road so...
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be v...
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to sha...
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
