The Folies-Bergere had long been doing "exotic" primitive numbers featuring blacks.

In addition, many of the current shows featuring blacks are increasingly bunched together and segregated from the rest of the prime-time schedule.

The national convention stage-managed on Bush's behalf prominently featured blacks and Hispanics; his two highest foreign-policy officials are black.

Given the plethora of black action films and movies featuring young blacks in urban settings, it is a work certain to generate discussion and controversy.

He is featuring blacks and Hispanics on some television advertisements that are critical of Mr. Green.

With a lineup that featured blacks and whites and men and women, it broke social barriers as well.

A review of 24 randomly selected issues of Time from 1988 to 1991 found that 7.6 percent of the advertisements featured blacks.

A separate study, published in the research journal Public Opinion Quarterly in 1984, found that in 1980, 11.4 percent of Time's advertisements featured blacks.

Nonetheless, a few decades after Foster's heyday, major motion picture corporations started to feature blacks on film.

In an instant, movies featuring blacks and incorporating black themes were moved from the background to the limelight in the film industry.