Sentences with phrase «african american president»

Not just because he's the first African American president of the country's largest trade association — a milestone he downplays — but also because he's leading NAR into fresh territory in 2009, overseeing new initiatives to strengthen REALTORS ®» bond with consumers and bring the housing market out of turmoil.

McMillan acknowledges the significance of being the first African American president in the association's 101 - year history, saying that he's «proud and honored to be a role model,» but he also admits being annoyed at times by the hubbub that comes along with it.

He transcends color and race,» says Booth, who was the first African American president of the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS ®.

I draw comparisons to the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of United States of America:

Nobody suspected that in history USA would ever have an African American president.

His journey to make a difference has even led him to a position as the first African American president of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) in the company's 114 - year existence.

Finally, no treatment of political art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.

Subjects covered have included the diminution of privacy, the meaning of the election of our first African American president and the effects on the human rain of exposure to constant streams of information.

This new oil - on - canvas likeness pays tribute to President Obama, who in 2009 made history by becoming the first African American President of the United States.

Why hasn't Obama, as the first African American president, more fully embraced Title I, which was so enthusiastically supported for decades by African Americans?

«While some celebrated the accomplishments of the first African American president, others devolved into deep - seated anger about how his...

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Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

Did anyone foresee an African American president of the US, or that swine flu, not bird flu, was to go pandemic?

145 years since Abraham Lincoln declared all people, regardless of race, to be free citizens and just 50 years since our country recognized that separate is never equal and segregation can never be tolerated, I am deeply humbled to have the privilege of being part of the process to formally elect the first African American President.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

This book reveals the previously untold history of how the individuals and innovations of the Howard Dean campaign came to play a starring role in the effort to elect the nation's first African American president.

We have elected the first African American president in the history of the United States.

Look how our first African American President has been treated since his election in 2008 and it has only gotten worse in spite of his re-election.

Will it be Fred Luter, the New Orleans pastor expected to be elected this June as the first African American president in the convention's 167 - year history?

His comments provoked demands by some black Southern Baptist leaders for censure of Land by the SBC; today many, including Fred Luter who is expected to become the denomination's first African American president this month, have accepted the apologies.

It took a long to have an African American President and I absolute positive that Americans will accept Islam the way they chose their President from different ethnicity...

Beyond familial ties, what had these evangelicals and other non-Catholics waiting in the wee hours of the morning was a chance to catch a glimpse of this historic meeting between America's first African American president and the Roman Catholic Church's first Latin American pope.

On the one hand, I am freshly amazed at how profoundly our country has changed over the past 50 years, how much progress has been made in such a short time, and how poignant it is to honor Dr. King the day before we swear in the first African American president.

While the election of the denomination's first African American president in its 167 - year history will dominate the meeting's headlines, water - cooler talk is sure to be fixated on a theological dirty word that, for the past two weeks, has spiked the blood pressure of theologians as much as it has Baptist visits to Wikipedia.

In 50 years African Americans are slave of white people and now we have African American president... and I am so happy for that... you will see a day coming may be in 100 years more or less Americans will accept Islam and will become a Muslim majority country... the way Americans are reverting to Islam...

And nobody really thinks it would be good for our first African American president to end up having to resign.

We know how social media was masterfully used to elect the first ever African American President the country has ever had.

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In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Artiles, who used a racial slur and vulgar language in a conversation with two African - American colleagues, submitted a resignation letter to the Senate president's office on Friday, April 21, 2017.

The curriculum will be developed in consultation with a number of prominent African American organizations and figures including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

On Election Day, more than 69.4 million Americans voted for Obama to become the 44th president of the US — and the first African - American to hold the position.

He studied English with an emphasis in African American literature and he was the president and vocal director for the co-ed a cappella group Counterparts.

He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Baldwin Richardson Foods Company («Baldwin Richardson»), one of the largest African - American - owned businesses in the food industry, a position he has held since 1997.

Obama has tapped three African Americans, two Asian Americans and one Latino, and look for the president - elect to pick a Latino for at least one of the remaining posts.

-LRB-...) Mr. Frazier, who is African - American, and Mr. Krzanich and Mr. Plank, who are white, were three of the 28 business and union leaders the president named to the advisory council aimed at helping him boost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

President Donald Trump speaks during the National African American History Month reception on Feb. 13, 2018, at the White House.

Last week, Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, two African - American sisters who have gained 1.4 million followers for their outspoken support for President Trump as the social media personalities «Diamond and Silk,» accused Facebook (in a Facebook post) of «bias, censorship and discrimination.»

... Here was an African American running for president being hailed by anonymous Arab - African women, in their own tradition, in the most unlikely of locales, and he... reciprocated instinctively from the depth of his cosmopolitan soul.»

On November 5, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a letter to South Africa, saying the U.S. would suspend duty - free treatment of South African agricultural goods exported to the U.S. should South Africa fail to address what the U.S. government saw as barriers to American products.

In the past decade, America has seen its first African - American president, the constitutional recognition of a right to same - sex marriage, and a new discourse on gender identity and workplace harassment.

As president of Professional Diversity Network (PDN), Star is among the youngest of a small group of African - American women to lead a public company in the US.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he cemented a political alliance between African Americans and the Democratic Party that continues to this day.

Sam using that critera that would disqualify several Prominent African - Americans including President Obama.

«It's almost too perfect that the first African - American president of the United States was elected in time for the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street,» the New York Times says.

By Tuesday, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the first African - American leader of that body, offered a bland quote to his denomination's official news service.

LDS still teaches African Americans are a cursed race, but since Romney is running for president, suddenly there is an emphatic re-write going on.

Are you so paranoid and delusional that you can't bear to see an African - American male be the president of the United States?

The New York Times: Southern Baptists Set for a Notable First The Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination born in 1845 in defense of slavery and a spiritual home to white supremacists for much of the 20th century, is poised to elect its first African - American president.

Recent polls show the that the president enjoys 90 % - plus support among African - Americans.