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Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

In California, 70 % of African - Americans supported Prop 8, the 2008 state gay marriage ban, even though 94 % of black voters in California backed Obama.

Just two nights after the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead and underscored the centuries - old tension between blacks and whites in the state, Marcus visited Charleston.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

Othermothers — women who care for children not biologically their own — have also been a tradition for black mothers dating back to the days of slavery in the United States, even longer in some African societies.

Read more >> Celebrating Mothers of Memphis during Black History Month African Americans have the lowest rates of breastfeeding among all racial / ethnic groups in the United States.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

Stone also claims a black son allegedly fathered by Bill Clinton explains why African - American voters shunned Hillary and thus helped Trump win key states.

Income in South Africa is higher for blacks than in any other African state.

In South Africa the literacy rate is 70 percent for blacks compared to average 40 percent in the 51 independent African states.

Stringer himself, described by insiders as «in near panic» over his poor showing with black voters, belatedly responded last week by hiring two well - regarded African - American political operatives: Patrick Jenkins, a longtime confidant of US Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens; and Kevin Wardally, an associate of the late Bill Lynch and an official at the Cuomo - controlled state Department of Labor.

«Scott has got to put money into an operation to appeal to the black vote, and he's now begun to do that,» said one of the state's best - known African - American officials, a Stringer backer who acknowledged that he's worried Spitzer will win the Sept. 10 primary.

He has the backing of two - thirds of black aldermen in Chicago and nearly half of African - American state lawmakers.

Because African - Americans were overrepresented on this list — they account for more than a fourth of its members — the typical black legislator earned more from state pension payments than their colleagues.

Pritzker, who was advising Blagojevich on filling the U.S. Senate seat held by Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, pitched the idea of picking Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, in part because it «covers you on the African - American thing.»

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

(You might recall that it was McCall who insisted there wouldn't be a racial issue if Cuomo primaried the state's first black governor, David Paterson, even as Rangel and other African American leaders were warning the AG not to go there).

Sharpton has fulminated about alleged efforts to obstruct blacks from voting in the past, most recently during the Democratic primary for retiring Congressman Charles Rangel «s seat, which saw Dominican - American State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeat African - American Assemblyman Keith Wright.

He said as the first African - American speaker in state history, he's personally «embarrassed» that the law, which disproportionately affects black youths, still stands.

When Obama visits Africa as the first black president of the United States, he deliberately ignores Nigeria; the biggest black African country and economy.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

This was the first district to elect an African American — Boce W. Barlow Jr., a son of Southern black migrants to Connecticut during the era of the migration from south to north — to the Connecticut state Senate.

Cuomo noted that 75 percent of parolees in the state are black or Latino and voting restrictions disproportionately impact African American and Hispanic communities.

There are many reasons for Sanders's poor polling with African American voters: his unknown name, the limited diversity of his home state, his shaky response to interactions with Black Lives Matter protesters.

I wanted to let everyone on my team know that I will be speaking today at the New York State Inter-Agency Black History Month Celebration, an event celebrating the story of Africans in the Americas.

Local Elected officials, African - American Community Leaders and Hundreds of Bronxites Come Together to Celebrate Black History Month BRONX, NY — Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) joined State Senator James Sanders, Jr..

«Cuomo is very sensitive to communities of color and African American communities specifically,» he said, referencing the 2002 racially - charged brouhaha surrounding Cuomo's first race for governor against former State Comptroller Carl McCall, who is black.

She said the state has «made a lot of gains» in the state Assembly with respect to representation of black women and pointed to the significance of Public Advocate Letitia James, the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

The fact that black scientists submitted less than 2 % of all Ph.D. applications for R01s and that investigators from outside the United States made up nearly half of that indicates that African Americans are «even more underrepresented than we had thought,» Kington says.

Edward Smith Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University presented this talk at Brookhaven Lab, hosted by the Lab's African American Affinity Group during Black History Month.

NC State undergraduates were already involved in the warming chambers research project, but the REU was designed to be a collaboration between NC State and Shaw University — a historically black university in Raleigh, N.C. — for the express purpose of engaging African - American undergrads in ecological research.

Although blacks tend to smoke less than whites, they «get lung cancer more often and die more often than non-African Americans,» says William Hicks, MD, professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Columbus, who co-authored a recent report on lung cancer in African Americans for the American Lung Association.

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By day three of the eruption, swathes of the city have been closed off by the Detroit PD, the Michigan State Police and the National Guard — tanks rumble, artillery booms, black smoke clogs the sky — and hair - trigger cop Krauss (Will Poulter) has killed an African - American by shooting him in the back.

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For instance, everyone — in the fictional world, that is — knows that Black Panther's real name is T'Challa, Chieftain of the Panther Clan, Warrior King of the African nation - state of Wakanda.