Similar words: african american, Pan-American, afro-american, americana, latin america, latin american, sub-saharan africa, American. Meaning: [ˌæfrɪkən əˈmerɪkən]] 
n. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa. adj. pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry african american. n. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa.
n. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa. adj. pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry african american. n. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa. 
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61. Obama would become the forty-fourth president of the United States, the country's first African-American president.
62. Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve a position of national prominence in 20th century America.
63. He specializes in American literature, African-American culture from 1940 to 1960, Afro-American autobiography, nonfiction prose, and popular culture.
64. But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.
65. Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, be-lieve that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason, for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together.
66. The 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.
67. Mr Obama spoke after taking the oath of office as America's 44th president - and its first African-American leader.
68. Mr Biden once described Mr Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy".
69. In nineteen forty,(www.Sentencedict.com) Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.
70. MLS' Garber disputes this, pointing to U.S. national team member Eddie Johnson, a fleet-footed African-American who initially played football and basketball at his Florida high school.
71. In addition, the strategic partnership will also introduce African-American music and film and TV entertainment products to China; as well as uniquely African-American culinary culture.
72. During this period, African-American actors were mostly limited to playing servants or African natives. Lena Horne refused to play roles that represented African-Americans disrespectfully.
73. It opened the door to the Oval Office to an African-American for the first time, and did so with a national vote in which his race seems to have been a relatively minor factor.
74. He says he's not going to dwell on the criticism he's gotten after calling Barack Obama a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect.
75. I recently saw a movie about Ruby Bridges, one of the African-American children in New Orleans who were part of the first attempt to desegregate public schools in the south.
76. When Barack was starting out as a politician, his rivals dismissed him as inauthentically African-American or even "the white man in blackface".
77. A collision of worlds when two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds get together one weekend in Martha's Vineyard for a wedding.
78. Arthur Ashe was also the first African-American to win the men's singles competition at a Grand Slam event.
79. Another important dialect is spoken by many African Americans. Sometimes this dialect is called "Ebonics[sentencedict.com], " but linguists call it "African-American English.
80. In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.
81. Raines had the right combination of intellect, knowledge of the budget, and political skills to succeed at OMB, and was the first African-American ever to hold the job.
82. This autographv is worth a lot because he's such a memorable figure in baseball and African-American history.
83. They were both children of African-American ministers in Beaumont, Texas, who grew up in the same neighborhood and had gone together for years before they married.
84. But we will say, as a general rule, we believe this person could be a white individual or a black or African-American individual, or perhaps Hispanic, Native American.
85. Both of us had chosen Simmie Knox to paint our portraits: we liked Knox's lifelike style, and he would be the first African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.
86. I had traveled here to Henson's last home -- now a historic site that Carter formerly directed -- to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses.
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