Roberto+A.10

-10 **Relation To Me**: Cousin **Favorite Genre(s)**: Rap **Favorite Artist**: 50 Cent **Why**: He just liked the stories that were told and because he was influenced him to listen to it from the environment he lived in. -20
 * Name**: Halil
 * African-American Event**: On October 9, 2000, an article was published on NYTimes to show how an African-American man wanted to fix America's school system. Cory A. Booker, a 31-year-old, African-American democrat of the Newark City Council really wants to have a better school system for children. He is so inspired by people like Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, and Langston Hughes that he always uses their quotes. This man truly cares about the education of children. The original article is found [|here.]
 * Name**: Serafet
 * Relation To Me**: Mom
 * Favorite Genre(s)**: Pop and Rock
 * Favorite Artist**: Bon Jovi
 * Why**: It tells you real life stories with emotion.
 * African-American Event**: On February 1, 1991, Harvard hired an African-American Studies specialist. Also known as Henry Louis Gates Jr. Also, in this article, states that Henry also made a specialty of rediscovering and publishing the works of black female writers from the 19th-century, and that he has written many things about slave narratives and black dialect. The original article is [|here].

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 * Name:** John
 * Relation To Me:** Neighbor
 * Favorite Genre:** ﻿Rock and Pop
 * Favorite Artist:** Michael Jackson
 * Why:** All of his songs had meaning to them. Also because they were all fun and everybody was involved with a dance so that everyone can dance to his songs too.
 * African American Event**: On March 6, 1985, //Black Woman Emerge From History's Neglect,// an article from the NYTimes was published to say that an African American woman made history. Her name was Mary McLeod Bethune. Who was a political activist, educator, and advisor to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman. She was honored with a commemorative stamp bearing her likeness. She is the 8th Black American. Also what is surprising, is that besides Harriet Tubman, she is the only African-American woman to be so honored. The original article is [|here].