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The common perception among African Americans is that the government is not doing enough to protect African Americans from AIDS. However, the CDC actually devotes 43% of its $650 million HIV budget to the black community, which they argue is a reasonable proportion given that African Americans make up half of all AIDS cases in total. What could be improved is the size of the HIV budget itself.23
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Even though Barack Obama may become the first African-American ever to represent a major party as the nominee for president, many black lawmakers on Capitol Hill are not supporting him. And that's creating tensions within the Congressional Black Caucus.
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The second came during the 19th century, mainly as part of a British-sponsored attempt to provide an alternative source to African slave labor. Besides these free immigrants—of whom about 50,000 settled in the British and French West Indies—each slave society contained, almost from its beginning, an ever-expanding component of blacks who had been freed by manumission.
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ATLANTA, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BellSouth Enterprises President Ike Harris has been named one of the 75 Most Powerful African-Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise Magazine. Harris and other recipients will be featured in the January 18 edition of the publication.
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Johnny Duncan, an African American was recently ticketed for riding around town displaying an obscene word (n**ger) on his car. He refuses to pay the ticket and will be appearing in court on Oct. 3rd to fight for what he says is his right to display the word.
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Two years before these films, Bert (Egbert Austin) Williams (1873-1922), the famed actor, singer and vaudevillian, became the first African-American to appear as a star in a motion picture. His 1914 film, Darktown Jubilee, was not well received even though his role was covered up in Blackface.
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