Sentences with phrase «black politicians as»

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By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.

As it is, Tavis Smiley, NAACP, and prominent black politicians openly promote and associate with Farrakhan.

Jimmy McMillan, from the Rent is Too Damn High Party, donned black gloves for the occasion and sounded like a politician - version of Mr. T as he answered every question with the refrain: «The rent is too damn high!»

Dressed in a black veil and gown, her hair in a bun, with her eldest son Rene - Charles at her side, Dion received condolences from relatives, senior politicians and others, as fans filed past Angelil's open coffin.

Mr. Barron, who identifies as a Black Panther, is one of the most outspoken politicians in the city, especially on issues connected to communities of color.

«Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black people and the poor.

Black politicians such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Public Advocate Letitia James and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams began stepping up.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

He is totally believable as a prince and politician, and equally convincing as the ass - kicking Black Panther.

The class discomfort is basically identical to the first movie; Vaughn caricatures politicians as cynical opportunists and the people who elect them as mindless mobs, while his camera bends down to lick the dirt off his posh old - money conspirators» black leather Oxfords.

KW: Aspiring actor Tommy Russell asks, as a black man who is also a very public figure, do you think black male celebrities, entertainers, sports figures and politicians get treated more harshly for their transgressions and mistakes than others?

Despite all of these barriers to entry, these politicians blast charter schools and school choice and champion their almost - impossible - to - get - in - if - I'm - Black schools as the definition of public.

After all, those collaborations against the futures of black people can be seen today as black teachers, school leaders, police officers, and politicians team up with others to perpetuate the nation's education crisis and the overcriminalization of black lives.

Segregation allowed black professionals, such as politicians and doctors to thrive in areas where they would be fully supported by their community, and thus more successful than they would be in integrated environments where they may face radicalized pushback (Lacy, 2007).

Anderson was initially interested in the kaleidoscopic effect of the mirrored walls, the sense of stillness in the midst of movement they created, and the surface decoration of the photographs stuck to them — photographs of black politicians and sportsmen, as well as hairstyles.

For Negative Positives the artist selects pages in which photographs of black politicians, athletes and celebrities appear, to highlight what she interprets as a routine association of such images with negative headlines, news stories or

As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel suite «to tamp things down and divine what should come next,» writes David Margolick in «The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.»