Sentences with phrase «leading black members»

Leading black members of Congress are vowing to lead a legislative fight for criminal justice reform after recent fatal police shootings around the US.

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That's why, today, Black Mormons include names like Eldridge Cleaver (a leading member of the Black Panther Party) and Gladys Knight.

Of the 2,000 members of the Durban Christian Centre, led by Fred and Nellie Roberts, 60 per cent are black.

The two lead authors of the Lancet series who are also members of Nestle's CSV council are Dr Robert E Black of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Dr Venkatesh Mannar, former president of Micronutrient Initiative.

«This is insane, this is arrogant, and this is absurd,» council member Charles Barron, the founder of the a black and Latino led Freedom Party, said at the protest, calling Bloomberg's «private public search» for the appointee both egotistical and oxymoronic.

We already know, for example, that members of Black and Minority Ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.

«In a special intelligence led operation conducted by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the IGP's Monitoring Unit at different black spots in Kogi State, three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighbouring States were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba Towns in Kogi State.

Not long after it became clear that Cynthia Nixon would challenge Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the Rev. Clinton Miller, who leads a mostly black, 1,200 - member congregation in Brooklyn, received a call from a close associate of Mr. Cuomo's asking if the governor could speak at his church.

The mainstream Democrats, who are led by Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Yonkers, who is black, say that members of the Independent Democratic Conference are motivated by a desire for bigger offices and chairmanships.

PhD student, Stefan Hofer, from the University's School of Geographical Sciences and member of the Black and Bloom and GlobalMass projects is the lead author of the study.

«Hispanic mothers were much more likely to have a family member who breastfed than white or black mothers,» said Chelsea McKinney, researcher at the NorthShore University Health System and lead author on the project.

The LIGO experiment confirms the third detection of gravitational waves from two black holes in collision The GRG - UIB group, led by Alicia Sintes, a member of MultiDark, participates in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

INFINITY WAR Having been spotted on set in a motion capture suit, leading to speculation that he's portraying the Black Order member Ebony Maw, Peaky Blinders actor Tom Vaughan - Lawlor has confirmed to Dublin Live that he is playing a villain in next year's Avengers: Infinity War.

Corvus Glaive may be the member of the Black Order who is the most similar to Thanos himself — and in fact even once led the Order in Thanos» absence — a choice that proved to be ill - fated on Thanos» return.

No longer cursed as an undead member of the Black Pearl, Jack is soon hunted by the legendary Davy Jones (here played by Bill Nighy, and not the famous Monkee of the same name), an octopus - faced pirate leading an army of fellow Crustaceans to whom Jack owes a blood debt requiring a hundred years of service on his ship, the Flying Dutchman.

It's the moments leading up to a confrontation with The Black Order members Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian in New York City involving Doctor Strange, Wong, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker.

Whether Wakanda's accessibility leads to more conflicts between Wakanda and the rest of the world remains to be seen, but like most of Black Panther, the scene feels prescient and applicable to the real world, especially when a white UN member incredulously wonders what Wakanda, ostensibly a Third World country, could teach the rest of the world.

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When it comes to Obama — the nation's first black president — the groups must also be careful, especially since some of its leading members (such as Jackson) were none too fond of him back when he was a U.S. Senator (and in some cases, didn't even back him during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton).

Sai, a member of the Foundation of the Black Ops is chosen, and Yamato, also Black Ops, is chosen to lead.

Set to open on April 2 in a striking black - and - white geometric building on Grand Canal Dock, across the Liffey from the CCD convention centre, the Marker is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World.

Hailed as «exhilarating» and a «standout» upon their debut days ago to Call of Duty ® Elite Premium members, the new Special Ops Missions «Black Ice» and «Negotiator» are now poised for play for all Call of Duty ® fans on Xbox LIVE ® everywhere as they lead the biggest and deepest content offering in Call of Duty history with today's release of the Modern Warfare ® 3 Collection Content # 1.

Jason Terry of the Dallas Mavericks and Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies will lead teams in a head - to - head match - up featuring members of the Treyarch development team and Call of Duty: Black Ops fans.

Tworkov's reputation as a leading intellectual and founding member of the New York School was well established by the time he arrived to teach painting at Black Mountain College in July 1952.

Currently represented in the 56th International Art Exhibition of this year's Venice Biennale by Librettos, a new series that brings together the score of the opera La Vida Breve by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla and a speech from 1964 by Black Panther Party member Stokely Carmichael, and Sound Text, a multipart series incorporating drawings on paper that lead to a performance by a seven - piece ensemble, Gaines continually produces ambitious and compelling work that is as challenging as it is inviting.

A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist - activists — members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)-- in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum's controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).

She acts as core collective member with Harriet's Apothecary, a healing village led by Black healers committed to co-creating accessible liberatory restorative spaces.

«Thanks to inspired and motivated action taken by a number of IMO member states to move towards a ban on heavy fuel oil, Arctic communities and ecosystems will be protected from the threat of oil spills, and the impact of black carbon emissions,» said Dr. Sian Prior, lead advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance, a coalition of 18 non-governmental organizations working to end HFO use as marine fuel in Arctic waters.

But Kelley, the only black member of the jury, stood firm, leading to the much greater award.

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