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  African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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  Alex Haley
  Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of and the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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  Amiri Baraka
  Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. An often controversial figure, he is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, was an American boxer, the second African American Boxing Champion, and the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).
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  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of archival footage and photographs. Among his most notable productions are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), and (2009).
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  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983.
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  Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world and the highest selling hip hop artist. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time.
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  Wynton Marsalis
  Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American jazz and Western classical virtuoso trumpeter and composer. He is Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted the appreciation of Classical and Jazz music, often focusing on young audiences.
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  California
  California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.
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  Los Angeles
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  Spelman College
  Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the first historically black female institution of higher education to receive its collegiate charter in 1924. It thus holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women.
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  United States
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Crouch, Stanley Filmography

• At the Foot of Canal Street (2010)
• Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
• Bring That Year Back 2006: Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006)
• (2006-01-26) (2006)
• (2006-06-29) (2006)
• Rap Sheet: Hip-Hop and the Cops (2006)
• 9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York (2005)
• The First Amendment Project: Poetic License (2004)
• The N Word (2004)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
• Charlie Parker's Saxophone/Koranic School Book/Prison Plague (2004)
• (2004-10-15) (2004)
• Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
• Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (2002)
• Mike Tyson (2002)
• Denis A. Charles: An Interrupted Conversation (2002)
• The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001)
• From Russia with Love (2001)
• Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (2000)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• (#1.3) (1997)
• (1995-02-24) (1995)