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31. I landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on November 6, two days after the first African-American was elected president of the United States.

32. Glamorous studio shots of film actresses Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne, for example, make it clear that African-American women were every bit as alluring as their white counterparts.

33. If the election of our first African-American president didn't stir you, if it didn't leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there's something wrong with you.

34. Past festivals have focused on China, Berlin and African-American music.

35. But African-American homicide rose from three times the white rate in New York in the 1850s to almost 13 times that figure a century later.

36. James Ellington was a butler and a caterer, but he was prosperous by African-American standards of the time, and extensively self-educated thanks to the library of his employer, a doctor.

37. By joining Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright in the act of literary testimony, Malcolm became part of the most essential genre of African-American literature.

38. where people are learning about the African-American leader Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in 1818, but escaped to become a leading abolitionist.

39. African-American music, in many ways, has played a demonstrative role in this evolution.

40. The HIV antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally.

41. I also named Jesse Brown, an African-American ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, who was the executive director of the Disabled American Veterans, to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

42. The Touhys, a well-to-do white family, can't ignore the needs of a homeless African-American boy.

43. LOA encompasses African-American literature from slave narratives to the essays of intellectuals like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois and the fiction of Richard Wright.

44. Black leaders continued to condemn the actions of a Cambridge police sergeant who handcuffed the African-American professor outside his own home Thursday.

45. Mobs assaulted any black person they saw on the street, ransacked and burned homes in African-American neighborhoods, and looted stores owned by blacks and “sympathetic” whites.

46. While she is part of an increasing number of African-American women who breast-feed their children, a recent study says that as a black woman, Borget is still the exception and not the norm.

47. Tayari Jones is an African-American woman, southern, middle-class, right-handed writer.

48. With the primary battles over, Barack Obama is focused now on his Republican opponent, John McCain, and the quest to become the first African-American president.

49. Three days after celebrating her 45th birthday, she will take her place by her husband's side on Jan 20 as Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's first African-American president.

50. Still, an historic election that delivered America's first African-American president coincides with a historic period of severe challenges.

51. She also cited the 2008 race's significance as the first to produce a major party nomination of an African-American presidential candidate.

52. Gorgeous, gifted and preternaturally poised[sentencedict.com], the 24-year-old actress-singer came to Hollywood in 1941 and quickly became the first African-American movie star.

53. To the contrary, eschewing the label "African-American writer" can actually reinscribe hurtful assumptions.

54. The greater truth about America, however, for virtually all the writers in this collection would lie in the faith of the great-uncle of African-American novelist Charles Johnson.

55. What it would do to African-American support, in my view, to take the nomination at this stage from Barack Obama is something that superdelegates would not even want to venture to find out.

56. It also reflected, in the title's reference to African-American culture, the buzz of the "Harlem renaissance".

57. People co-hosts the Screen Actors Guild Awards Gala, for example, and Essence sponsors an annual concert of African-American music. Sentencedict.com

58. It began soon after the end of slavery in the south, when African-American musicians became able to travel and play music for a living.

59. Another special StoryCorps initiative focuses on African-American history and is called StoryCorps Griot after a West African tradition of storytelling.

60. At the Nyanza Provincial General Hospital in Kisumu, western Kenya, Barack's ancestral homeland, several mothers were naming their babies after the U.S.'s first African-American president.