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Example sentences for: african-

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As we proceed up 18 th Street, we take on more passengers, almost all of them "African-Americans" or Hispanics.
A remake of the 1957 made-for-TV musical wins praise for its African-American lead and multiracial cast, which includes Jason Alexander, Whitney Houston, and Whoopi Goldberg.
It's played amid the cornfields of the Midwest by lanky boys with flaxen hair and 'twixt the housing projects by the troubled shores of Coney Island, where otherwise powerless young African-Americans bestride the courts like colossi.
The winning portrait, "Jesus of the People," was painted by Janet McKenzie of Vermont, using an African-American woman as her model.
I have been troubled by the use of African-American and AfroAmerican to describe the people in question, especially since a dear friend of mine, who is solid Caucasian, emigrated from South Africa and is now a citizen and thus is aptly described as an African-American!