And people have chided them for placing too much emphasis on basketball in the life of an African-American boy.
Their chances of ending up in prison - especially for the African-American and Latino boys - are much higher.
A small African-American boy stood staring at us out the window of my parents' second-floor bedroom.
Police officers canvassed the area searching for anyone with information about the baby, a 5-pound 5-ounce, 19-inch African-American boy.
He is an African-American boy who is a basketball player and wishes to be famous.
But, then, my eye caught one of them, a teen-age African-American boy with dreadlocks beautifying his already beautiful face.
I'm tired of weeping over the murder of African-American boys.
And I was concerned that as an African-American boy, he'd be even less of a focus.
In Cleveland, the illness has seemed to strike African-American boys disproportionately.
An African-American boy then offered to have his mother sew the outfits for all the students in the class.