Sentences with phrase «black activists say»

Black activists say they have been portrayed as criminals when they hold protests.

As I heard one Black activist say: «He finds out a Black person's price and then he doubles it.»

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It's why the volunteer who led his campaign in the Youngstown area had no issue saying racism was a creation of Barack Obama's Presidency and that Black Lives Matter activists were full of it.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

Ronald Edwards, a black civil rights activist in Minneapolis who contacted Reuters at the request of the police department, said he believed the city's police chief was doing her best to improve race relations.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

A Christian activist has said that slavery is a significant reason why so many black children aren't... More

Of course, to put abortion in such simple, black and white terms can be shocking to some — and many pro-abortion activists would disagree, saying that a child is not human or nor a person or does not possess rights, or some other such argument.

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

At the beginning of the year, activist Michelle Higgins took the stage at the Urbana missions conference and issued a call to action: all Christians, she said, should support the Black Lives Matter movement.

Sunday morning was often the only time in the week that a black person could assert their dignity, says Durley, the Atlanta civil rights activist who also is a retired Baptist pastor.

Scott doesn't care what liberals or black activist or even Obama has to say.

The Lib Dems have no black or Asian MPs and only a handful of female MPs, and today Sir Menzies said that while there was no question of introducing a Tory - style A-list, activists would be strongly encouraged to choose diverse candidates.

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

Cerberus Capital Management, the hedge fund with headquarters at 875 Third Avenue, are as guilty as the criminals who sell guns on the black market and the legislators who refuse to fight for stricter gun control, said activists who converged at the firm's offices this past month.

I'm not going with that guy,» said Lewis, the founder and president of The Black Institute and the former head of the defunct liberal activist group ACORN.

«He doesn't have to get involved,» said a prominent black activist who is a frequent Cuomo critic but also believes de Blasio is vulnerable.

In a phone interview, the Black Panther - turned - «elected activist» said that, after much deliberation with his political organization Operation P.O.W.E.R., he had decided he would be more effective in the Democrat - dominated Assembly than in the Republican - run State Senate.

«We're going to fight this,» said Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, as he gathered with some two hundred elected officials, teachers, parents and activists on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, at the latest in a series of protests against Black Thursday evening.

But on Monday, as it became clear that the boundary reorganisation was dead, the influential Tory activist and commentator Tim Montgomerie said what had happened was the «single worst political event to hit the Tories since 1992 and black Wednesday».

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

«He's done some good things, and he's kind of fallen short on other things,» said Katrinna Martin - Bordeaux, a Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter activist from Buffalo who supported Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign.

«Over the last week, he has personally spoken with members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, PBA President Pat Lynch, community activists including Russell Simmons and Shawn «Jay - Z» Carter, and district attorneys from across the state and looks forward to continuing this dialogue with additional stakeholders in the coming days and weeks,» she said.

«There was always a focus on the civil - rights movement and it was as if black history stopped once Dr. King died,» said Raquel Willis, a writer and racial - justice activist in Atlanta.

In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.

As Cecil B. Moore, a legendary Philly activist, once frustratedly (but accurately) said, «Often when I get a Black man a good job, I make another White man.»

On its website, the bank says an independent committee has narrowed down the finalists to poet E. Pauline Johnson; black rights activist Viola Desmond from Nova Scotia; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.

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In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.