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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best: "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
But we should neither be pessimistic nor ignore the progress and huge steps forward African Americans have made in the last 25 years alone.
As CNN explores what it's like to be Black In America, Black Voices asked "How did we get here?" We came up with 10 examples of Black progress in America. Next, we'll look at the problems we still face as a community.
Check out the list and tell us how you think we have progressed?
10 Ways Black People Have Progressed
The new generation of African Americans going in to ownership and entrepreneurial routes are well equipped and more knowledgeable than ever before. Despite many obstacles unparalleled to other races many African American have perceived to receive equality and the right to ownership since the ending of slavery. Now in the 21st century we are able to see how their successes and potential to become business moguls and CEOs of major companies.
History was made At the 74th Academy Awards® in 2002 when Halle Berry became the first African-American woman to win Best Actress. She also gave one of the most memorable acceptance speeches of her life that gave thanks to all those powerful black females that had came before her. This was not a moment in her life to be remembered but a witness that women of color are be. Denzel Washington continuing the path of Greatness when he was awarded Best Actor for Training Day after Sidney Poitier, the first African-American male to win Best Actor 39 years ago, was awarded an honorary award. These two men are examples of how much we have came along in history and in entertainment. And now that they have opened the door for a new generation to enter and blow even more borders for the future.
2. In recent years there has been a glimpse that black education rates are on the rise. School teachers have been becoming the main influence for students to excel in test scores for reading, writing skills, math, and social sciences. Now that teachers are receiving more respect for their hard work, society is noticing that they are the gateway for their children's future.
Digital divide Narrowed
hip-Hop Culture Takes Over
6. Williams Sisters/Michael Jordan
As Barack Obama continues his path to the White House to become the first African American for the President of The United States of America history is being made every step he takes closer. It was monumental when Barack defeated Hillary Clinton as the leader of the Democratic Party for the election but as
Women Empowerment
Condoleeza Rice - Secretary of State Colin Powell being the top military person in America
As the first black female to be in such a hig position in politics, Condeleeza is a women in charge of being president Bush's right hand and has been very influential in the advancement of black women in the U.S. government.
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By: Donah on 7/23/2008 8:58PM
No more sniping from me.... you said it all.... BUT all I can hope
for is that you won't put another stupid but nice sounding
whippersnapper in MY and Hillary's White House.... Donah////
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By: Original Black Buddha on 7/24/2008 3:31AM
Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist should make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN's investigative report, so I did.
I too am black in America and this is my story:
http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm
Lama Rangdrol
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By: Original Black Buddha on 7/24/2008 3:35AM
Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist should make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN's investigative report, so I did.
I too am black in America and this is my story:
http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm
Lama Rangdrol
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By: elizabeth on 7/24/2008 8:48PM
Donah,
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!! YOU HAVE PROVEN THAT IN YOUR SAD STATEMENT. AND YOU ARE NOT AS INTELLIGENT AS YOU HAVE PROCLAIMED YOURSELF TO BE!!
AURORA,
IT IS NOT JUST BLACKS WHO PUT DOWN SUCCESSFUL BLACK FOLKS, OTHER PEOPLE DO IT AS WELL. AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU HAD READ THE NONSENSE THAT DONAH HAD TYPED, THEN YOU WOULD SEE THIS TO BE TRUE!
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By: Proud Sistah on 7/25/2008 1:15AM
Now Donah, it is obvious by your choice of words that you are not nor have you ever been intelligent. It is also evident by the way you change your tone in mid sentence that you are most likely bipolar and have either forgotten or refuse to take your medication because you are under the impression that you are normal.
Next time you try to impress the world with your intelligence, please press a little icon by the name of spell check and you may be able to deceive a couple of people.
By the way, it is not Hilary Clinton's white house. The white house belongs to the candidate elected. Hilary Clinton lost, game over!
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By: C Schmitt on 7/26/2008 12:24AM
Jarvis' comment about blacks sending their money to institutions that do not promote black advancement is dead one (this is from a white male for what it's worth). Ethnic groups that have advanced have done it be uniting against the broader society, regardless of race. The Irish and Germans who came to America in the 1800s, mostly as poorer groups escaping poverty in Europe, succeeded despite the predominant English-Scottish who held the most power because they supported their own. The Koreans and Chinese immigrants have been doing this recently. The latino cultures are showing signs of doing the same. AAs need to recognize that even the government doesn't have the sort of power that comes for working together.
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