On 1986, Oprah's Talk show was bought by King World productions which made her the first African American host to receive national programming. ... Oprah has donated millions of her money to three different foundations The Angel Network, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, and The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation. ... This person gives a sense of hope to black Americans because not only was she born in a bad situation but she got educated and was a straight A student at high school, and got a full scholarship at TSU. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dubois, and even Frantz Fanon spoke and wrote eloquently and passionately against racial oppression, calling America and Europe to accountability for their democratic and humanitarian ideals by appealing to, in Abraham Lincoln's paraphrased words, "the better angels of men's natures."" ... Even King, though he never repudiated nonviolence, began to question the effectiveness of such tactics in the face of America's social, political, and economic violence towards Black people. The fact remains that democracy in America can coexist, and indeed has coexisted with the oppression ...

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One reason why Oprah has been so influential in American society is because she has been able to reach all different people: not just African Americans and not just women. Oprah has also been able to cross racial and gender lines despite her being an African American woman. ... Throughout her talk show, her book club, her magazine("O" as in Oprah), her angel network and her charity. As a successful African American woman, she has shown American society what blacks are capable of. ... Oprah has proved to have made a permanent mark on American history. ...

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Throughout the story, the two main characters Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry illustrate the difficulties faced by African American women who could "pass" as white women. ... His constant hatred of African Americans makes Clare herself absent from her own identity. Irene mocks Clare about forgetting her blackness but she is no angel either. When she is in the Drayton Hotel, she knows that the discovery of her African American identity would lead to her removal from the hotel. ... Larsen wanted to portray the class conflict difficulties between the African-American community. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It was the time of the Civil Right Movement in America. ... Touched by An Angel was a love poem, written in 1995, conveys the message of the power of love among humanity and freedom. ... All her life, Angelou lived as a proud and independent African American woman. ... She became a living symbol of African American culture. ... Maya Angelou became one of the most influential women in American history....

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In a quote from a online source, Spike Lee says, "I've never really thought of myself as a spokesperson for 35 million African Americans.... All my views have been solely my views, and I think that there are African American people who agree with me, but we also have African Americans who don't agree.... ... Spike Lee, whether you like him or hate him, he knows that he has a powerful and important avenue to use in order to get his message out to America. ... I've never really tried to get in that hole where everything has to be 100%, - because I think that it's not necess...

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In a quote from a online source, Spike Lee says, "I've never really thought of myself as a spokesperson for 35 million African Americans.... All my views have been solely my views, and I think that there are African American people who agree with me, but we also have African Americans who don't agree.... ... Spike Lee, whether you like him or hate him, he knows that he has a powerful and important avenue to use in order to get his message out to America. ... It was always my ambition that if I was successful I would try to portray a truthful portrait of African Americans in this co...

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She married an American freedom fighter and lived in Cairo, where she was editor of The Arab Observer, the only English-language news weekly in the Middle East (Schafer 1). ... Some of the poetry Angelou has written is "Still I Rise", "Men", "Remembrance", "A Conceit", "Touched by an Angel", "Refusal", and "The Lesson" (Alanofdale 1)... " Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Clinton in January of 1993" (Cookson 800). " She was the first African American to do so"(Donegal 1). ... "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou gives the audienc...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School