These are the strongest African-American youngsters, and they are highly sought after.

For African-American and Hispanic youngsters exposed weekly to this kind of television entertainment, the message must be clear: This is your role in society.

As it turned out, the African-American youngster, an inexperienced freshman, rushed out too fast in the lead and faded.

Much more than lip service will have to be given to the idea of improving the education of African-American youngsters.

The real purpose of Jesse Jackson's effort is to return the dreams and the ordinary joy of childhood to African-American youngsters.

We have to increase the low rates of enrollment of African-American youngsters in college preparatory courses and attack the inequitable allocation of resources for public education.

After an acquaintance was mugged, the apparent perpetrator, an African-American youngster, was promptly caught near the scene with the victim's belongings.

She concluded that these children were being deprived of the "rich diversity of American life," never knowing an African-American or poor youngster their own age.

It is about an African-American youngster coming of age in New York after growing up in Los Angeles.