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McKissic addressed the current debate aboutwhether to call people of African descent Black,African-American or Negro...
George White, North Carolina's last black Congressman, left Washington in 1901. But first he offered a prediction to his colleagues on the floor of the House. "This is perhaps the Negro's temporary farewell to the American Congress," he said. "Phoenix-like he will rise up someday and come again." It took just over 90 years for the state to send another black to Washington, but here he comes: attorney Mel Watt is one of two African-American candidates considered all-but-certain winners in new North Carolina congressional districts that have black majorities...
...issue that Lincoln told racist and obscene stories to make a point among his none too delicate peers. One man who served with Lincoln in Congress reminded him, in a letter, of Lincoln's "story of the old Virginian stropping his razor on a certain member of a young Negro's body...
Sometimes the medium is the message. When the National Council of Negro Women held workshops for people organizing family reunions -- increasingly popular events in the black community -- companies like Reebok and Kellogg signed up to exhibit their products. Other major-league merchandisers, like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola, distribute samples of their products in gift bags that are handed out after Sunday service to parishioners at black churches...
This was the key problem of Johnson's last years. He and Krake fled Scandinavia before the Nazi advance. They arrived in New York in 1938. Johnson applied for a grant to revisit the scenes of his childhood to "paint Negro people," as he put it, "in their natural environment," meaning by "natural" the rural South. The money didn't appear, but he painted the pictures anyway without leaving Manhattan. For the next seven years of his life, Johnson worked in a style that oscillated between folk art and caricature. On the whole, his images of life and manners...