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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PORTAL

An African American (also Afro-American and Black American) is a person in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. Many African Americans possess European, Native American or Asian ancestry as well. In the United States the term is generally used for those of Sub-Saharan African ancestry only, and not for those of White European colonial ancestry, White South African-European ancestry, or Arab North African ancestry.

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	It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close..
Jesse Owens (September 11, 1913 – March 31, 1980)

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Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York as a social fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 175,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1945.

The fraternity expanded when a second chapter was chartered at Howard University in 1907. Today, there are over 700 Alpha chapters in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the West Indies.

Alpha Phi Alpha evolved into a service organization and has provided leadership and service during the Great Depression, World Wars, Civil Rights Movements, and addresses social issues such as apartheid and urban housing, and other economic, cultural, and political issues affecting people of color. The World Policy Council and Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial are projects of Alpha Phi Alpha, and the fraternity jointly leads philanthropic programming initiatives with March of Dimes, Head Start, Boy Scouts of America and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Members of Alpha Phi Alpha include Jamaican Prime Minister and Rhodes Scholar Norman Manley, Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Olympian Jesse Owens, Justice Thurgood Marshall, United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson.

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Ronald Vernie (Ron) Dellums (born November 24, 1935), U.S. Democratic Party politician, is the mayor of the City of Oakland, California. He was a U.S. Representative from California from 1971 until his resignation on February 6, 1998 and, following that, a lobbyist.

Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly socialist American Congressman since World War II.

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Did you know...

...that Marjorie Joyner, creator of the Permanent wave machine, was the first African American to graduate from A.B. Molar Beauty School?
...that Elijah McCoy invented various types of engines and automatic oilers that were used in trains and fire trucks, and that the quality and desirability of his steam engine lubricator were the origin of the phrase "the real McCoy"?
...that John Hanks Alexander was the first African American in the United States armed forces to hold a regular command position?
...that Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and in force between 1876 and 1964 that required racial segregation, especially of African-Americans, in all public facilities?
...that the Communist Party USA played a significant role in defending the rights of African-Americans during the 1930s and 1940s?
...that the majority of African slaves came from Central Africa and Western Africa?
...that the Nation of Islam was founded in the U.S. in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad?

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African American news

November 17, 2006 - Black leaders tout new plan to combat AIDS (Newsday) More...

November 13, 2006 - President George Bush at a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a memorial honoring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Associated Press) More...

October 19, 2006 - Black colleges struggle to keep students due to ageing and inferior facilities. (BlackNews) More...

August 01, 2006 - President Bush, addressing the NAACP after skipping its convention for five years, said Thursday he knows racism exists in America and that many black voters distrust his Republican Party.... (BlackNews) More...

July 29, 2006 - African-Americans who want to help develop the homeland of their ancestors -- and to strengthen cultural and social links with Africans -- have held a biannual meeting in Africa since 1991. The summit was created by the late civil rights leader Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, and this year’s meeting in Abuja, Nigeria was the second since his death in 2001... (VOANews site) More...

January 17, 2007 - Muhammad Ali's 65th birthday is today.

November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election.

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African American topics

General

African American • List of African-American firsts

Category - African Americans

Academics

HBCUs • Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund • UNCF

Personalities - Joe Louis Clark • Marva Collins • Patricia Hill Collins • Anna Julia Cooper • Elbert Frank Cox • Otelia Cromwell • Dolores Cross • John Hope Franklin • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. • Bell Hooks • Shelby Steele • Cornel West

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Arts

Personalities - Elizabeth Catlett • Roy DeCarava • Beauford Delaney • Eugene J. Martin • Willie Cole • Kara Walker

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Entertainment

Literature and writings

writers • nonfiction writers

Personalities - Maya Angelou • Ned Cobb • Jeffrey Daniels • Alex Haley • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston • Walter Mosley • Alice Walker • Margaret Walker

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Categories - writers • non-fiction writers • novelists • poets

Movies and film

Blaxploitation • List of blaxploitation films

Personalities - Halle Berry • Don Cheadle • Ossie Davis • Ruby Dee • Danny Glover • Samuel L. Jackson • Queen Latifah • Spike Lee • Hattie McDaniel • Ving Rhames • John Singleton • Wesley Snipes

Titles - Men of Honor • The Gospel • Proud • The Tuskegee Airmen • Jungle Fever • School Daze • Do the Right Thing • Strictly Business • Juice • Losing Isaiah • A Time To Kill • Rosewood • Boyz N the Hood • Poetic Justice • Higher Learning • Shaft • Baby Boy

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