Sentence examples for negro past from inspiring English sources

(Ask any Negro what he knows about the white people with whom he works. And then ask the white people with whom he works what they know about him. ) How can the American Negro past be used?

When she went to Fisk University in Nashville she would have heard the decorous, slightly languid, Victorian-genteel tones of sheltered upper-middle and upper-class young ladies of color, along with the more openly Southern voices of scholarship students being trained to discard the vocal remnants of their rural Negro past.

When my brother and I were growing up in the 1960s, my parents bought the book, "Great Negroes Past and Present".

And, unfortunately, that's not going to be corrected by L.A. radio station KJLH, 102.3 FM — an R&B/urban music station — celebrating Black History Month by broadcasting snippets of biographies about, well, great Negroes past and present.

Baldwin is edgy and provocative about this idea: "In our image of the negro breathes the past we deny, the beast in our jungle of statistics.

A Manila native who'd married into a prominent local family years ago, Mrs. Gamboa had immersed herself in Negros's heritage and past.

By encouraging Johnson and his peers to look for their roots in African artworks, Locke, the author of the anthology "The New Negro," was trying to move past the idea of African art as, in his words, a "side exhibit to modernist painting".

In the middle of all this screaming and jumping about, most of you are probably asking "are they angry young women or just drama queens?" (Much like the phrases "you go, girl" or "what-ever," the term "drama queen" is slang that originated in the gay negro community and, over the past few years, got appropriated into common teenspeak, right next to "hottie" and "hoodie").

The New Negro is an inventive amalgamation of past and future trends that are indigenous to black American style.

I and two Negro acquaintances, all of us well past thirty, and looking it, were in the bar of Chicago's O'Hare Airport several months ago, and the bartender refused to serve us, because, he said, we looked too young.

President Barack Obama has signed legislation that will make the words "Negro" and "Oriental" things of the past, striking the racially-charged terms from federal law.