The African-American upper class consists of African-American engineers, lawyers, accountants, doctors, politicians, business executives, venture capitalists, CEOs, celebrities, entertainers, entrepreneurs and heirs who have incomes amounting to $200,000 or more.
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Employment and Unemployment Among Youth Technical Note ; Table 1. Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population 16 to 24 years of age by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, April-July 2017
9335 – 1838 DATED ANTI-SLAVERY TOKEN, obverse with kneeling African-American woman in chains, inscribed “AM I NOT A WOMAN & A teen”; reverse with laurel wreath, inscribed “LIBERTY” and “1838” at center and “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” around perimeter.
Although she was an African slave, Phillis Wheatley was one of the best-known poets in prenineteenth-century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publishing her poems, and paraded before the new republic’s political
In the English language, the word nigger is a racial slur typically directed at black people.The word originated as a variation of the Spanish and Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (“black”).
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