About 70 75 of Haitians are of predominantly African descent.

It has a population of 277,821 people, mostly of African descent.

Our readers aren't just African women or women of African descent we have a global online audience.

The theme Black Carnivals is part of the African descent decade in Salvador.

For some of African descent the city of Lisbon is clearly their city.

Her father, Alfred Roy, was of African American and Venezuelan (including Afro Venezuelan) descent, while her mother, Patricia (Hickey), is of White Irish descent.

During Afro XXI, the Bahian capital was given the title Ibero American Capital of African Descent .

Thus, in Ecuador, Nicaragua, or Venezuela, the statistics that describe the social situation of communities of African descent are scarce or non existent, even while the incarcerated population includes a significant number of young people of African descent.

The African cultural influence remains strong in Brazil, a country where people of African descent form nearly half of the country's 180 million population.

Saint Kitts has a population of around 45,000, the majority of whom are mainly of African descent.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first person of African American descent to be elected President of the United States.

Prado pointed out that the issue of racial discrimination between Latinos and people of African descent is not something new.

Washington currently holds the records for most Oscar nominations (six) and the most wins (two) by an actor of African descent.

Information on the situation of people of African descent throughout Latin America and their relationship with police and the justice system is lacking.

The day has special meaning for those Brazilians of African descent who honor Zumbi as a hero, freedom fighter, and symbol of freedom.

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John F. Kennedy has been the only president of Roman Catholic faith, and the current president, Barack Obama, is the first president of African descent.

People of African, Japanese and Chinese descent are rarely diagnosed this reflects a much lower prevalence of the genetic risk factors, such as HLA B8.

It recommends, for example, fostering the conversation about African roots in the Latino community, highlighting the visibility of Afro Latinos, supporting policy changes that help combat structural racism in justice, and raising awareness of Latino racism towards people of African descent.

He is a descendant of pre Civil War era American slaves in the American South, and is predominantly of African American descent, with Irish, English, and Italian ancestry.

His father was of English and German descent while his mother was of Scots Irish descent.

Since African slavery was not the workforce of the Spanish colonies in the Andes Mountains of South America, given the subjugation of the indigenous people through evangelism and encomiendas , the minority population of African descent is mostly found in the coastal northern province of Esmeraldas.

That was not a controlled descent.

His parents were of Russian descent.

The descent to hell is easy.

At Camp Diva, my non profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.

According to the latest census, in 2000, Brazilans of African descent account for 63 of the poorest section of society although only 5 of this group declare themselves 'of black origin'.

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and Heavy D, are of Jamaican descent.

White voters of British descent were divided.

He is of Italian and German descent.

The accuracy of the descent is unknown.

The problem was solved by emphasising Henry's descent in a direct male line, whereas March's descent was through his grandmother.

The majority of the population in most of Latin America was of either African or Amerindian descent, and the Creole elite had little interest in giving these groups power and broad based popular sovereignty.

Most Whites are of Irish or British descent.

The captain descended below a minimum descent altitude.

She is of Mexican, Aztec, and Egyptian descent.

Just like the First Meeting of Black Cultures , the choice for the theme of the Pelourinho carnival slots into the International Decade of People of African Descent in Salvador, as set up by the United Nations after the Ibero American Meeting of the International Year of African Descent (Afro XXI), carried out in 2011. This was an opportunity for themes of racism and the social, economic and political situations of black people throughout the world today to be discussed.

Americans of Asian descent form 3.8 percent of the population, with those of non Hispanic descent making up 3.7 percent of the populace.

I was playing the violent African, the African terrorist.

Does it match one African or the other African?

Mitochondrial DNA, tracing a purely maternal line of descent.

Her father, Fred, was of German and Swiss descent.

The majority of the residents are of British descent.