In part, the Americans acted out of what seemed a genuine concern that fellow blacks were being treated unfairly.

He is sure enough of himself to be quite willing to joke about his own race and about his fellow blacks.

So the disparagement that she and her husband and children have suffered from fellow blacks has been especially painful.

Even some fellow blacks, he says, see him not as a son or a brother but as a threat.

In college and law school, he identified strongly with his fellow blacks, and was liberal, even radical, on racial issues.

Bill Cosby gets on fellow blacks for talking that street language they think is English.

They have been vilified by some of their fellow blacks as turncoats.

But he made his life's work gaining freedom for himself and fellow blacks.

It was an act that has baffled and angered fellow blacks, a result he often seems to be aiming for.

He was also an early advocate of civil rights and a spokesman for fellow blacks and other minorities.