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He debated both white politicians and black activists, including Malcolm X, and served as a liaison between black activists and intellectuals and white establishment leaders like Robert Kennedy.

Because of Baldwin’s unique ability to articulate the causes of social turbulence in a way that white audiences were willing to hear, Kennedy and others tended to see him as an ambassador for black Americans — a label Baldwin rejected.

Here he is, one little guy, black jeans and stuff, on a totally empty stage.

And another student, let's call her Abby, had just raised her hand and volunteered: "Maybe some people don't like black people because their skin is the color of poop."

That day, nearly a quarter million people gathered on the national mall to demand an end to the discrimination, segregation, violence, and economic exclusion black people still faced across the United States.

He joined the Communist Party when black American’s civil rights were one of its priorities, but soon became disillusioned by the party’s authoritarian leanings and left.

But ultimately, both his belief in collaboration with the government and his membership to the communist party had been driven by his desire to maximize tangible gains in liberties for black Americans, and to do so as quickly as possible.

And so we've got white folks and black folks, Hispanic folks and Native American folks, we've got members of Congress, members of the city council, business leaders, religious leaders, Trump people and Hillary people, all joined by one common belief, and that is that a kid should have an equal shot at a good life in our city, regardless of what part of town they happen to be born in.

If we're unsuccessful, where will you go to play when your favorite places are burned black?

Tiny, flat and black as a prayer stone, it buzzed softly and then slowly rose from the sand.

Undershirts are white or brown only, shoes are black or brown polished leather and frankly, don't come to my class wrinkled and expect me to let you stay.

These strokes of genius belong to 21 year old black Brooklynite Jean-Michel Basquiat – one of America’s most charismatic painters, and currently, its highest sold.

But black women would not be made invisible in a national movement they helped shape.

In these ways and more, black women persevered despite deep hostility from white women in the movement, and at great political and physical risk.

Some people point at superrich black sports stars and say, "See?

For example, rich white women are probably much better off in society than poor white men, and rich black men are probably somewhere in between.

You can be young or old, married or single, black or white.

She had long, curly black hair, a blue jean jacket.

And I remember reading, after the Lara Croft movies, how Angelina Jolie would go home completely black and blue.

There's a wonderful book called "Crowns" that's all these glamour pictures of black women in their church hats.

At the time, I had been doing Shotokan karate for as long as I could remember, and so I had a black belt.

And imagine being woman and black and trans and queer and Latinx and undocumented and poor and immigrant, and you could then only imagine how overwhelming this work can be, especially within the context of personal safety.

They called it "a black swan."

The black swan lends itself to the idea that we don't have power over our futures.

To help us to take a fresh look, with the same passion that people had for the black swan, but this time, for the things that were highly obvious, highly probable, but still neglected.

So many of us are so unlikely to pay attention to the things that we just want to black out, we don't like them.

So I think about Troy and his optimism when I think of the reality that so many young, black millennials face when it comes to realizing their dreams.

I think about all the challenges that so many black millennials have to endure in a world that tells them they can anything they want to be if they work hard, but actually doesn't sit down to listen to their dreams or hear stories about their struggle.

Now black millennials, a group that I have researched for a book I recently wrote, are the perfect example of the blind spot that we have when it comes to this group.

Young black people in America have been fighting, really fighting hard to get their stories told for centuries.

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