Sentences with phrase «black president of»

Back to that Boston Globe report, where former Harvard Law professor Derrick A. Bell Jr. advises not to underestimate the significance of Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Many law review presidents and editors have gone on to achieve great success and wield great influence: Barack Obama was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review; Brooksley Born — who warned against impending global economic crisis and was awarded the John F. Kennedy Medal of Courage this year — was the first woman president of the Stanford Law Review; former Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist, and former Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — the first woman Supreme Court justice — were both Stanford Law Review editors.

President Obama is famous for becoming the first black President of the US.

The Presidential Library Project: Black Presidential Imaginary addresses the long history of representations of a black president of the United States in visual culture, both comedic and aspirational, through contemporary art installation and institutional archives.

Ibiza was witness a number of unrelated innovations through its lifespan, including the launch of the first personal computer, Tom Hanks winning his second Oscar for the movie «Forest Gump,» the launch of Facebook in 2004, the release of first iPhone, Barack Obama becoming the first black president of the U.S. and much, much more.

«Big Game» Samuel L. Jackson stars at the second black president of the United States in this action adventure film from newcomer, Finnish director Jalmari Helander.

To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement by Charlayne Hunter - Gault Roaring Brook Press Hardcover, $ 22.99 208 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-59643-605-3 Book Review by Kam Williams «On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded onto the cold, hard grounds of the nation's capitol in Washington, D.C. to witness the swearing in of the first black president of the United States of America... My husband, Ronald, and I had flown 16 hours from our home in Johannesburg, South Africa... For me, it was the climax of an even longer journey, one that I had begun with thousands of others back in... the Civil Rights Movement.

Rachel Dolezal ignited an unprecedented media storm when a local news station in Spokane, WA outed her as a white woman who had been living as the black president of the NAACP.

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

It follows the young Madiba from his childhood, being brought up in a rural village, all the way up to his inauguration as the first democratically elected black president of South Africa — with an account of his much - publicised 27 years in prison in between.

Allegedly, Halloran accepted a $ 7,500 bribe from an informant to get his support for State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a Queens Democrat who rose to become the first black president of the State Senate, to enter the Republican primary for mayor, which Read more»

I'm pretty sure Obama is called first black President of the US by NYT, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, Reid, Pelosi, Biden, Matthews,...

First a black president of the US, and now Russia fighting to maintain religion.

Forbes insists it was not racist for Trump to have tried to delegitimize the first black president of America with spurious claims of his birthplace.

Not exact matches

Potdevin, who has the weathered face of a snowboard dad, wore black - and - white slip - on shoes made by Toms, the company he'd led as president since 2011.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

«I think men's (apparel) will be a home run,» said Jennifer Black, a retail analyst and president of Jennifer Black & Associates.

Most revealing tidbit, however, was the behind - the - curtain look at how Trump ended up declining to attend the White House Correspondents» dinner, the annual black - tie affair at which president usually play the role of a stand - up comic.

«I wanted to find a way to create the buzz and excitement of Black Friday shopping frenzy, while also not offending customers who will see a big discounted price list that they missed out on after the sale is over,» says Pritchett, vice president of marketing at Logos, a Bellingham, Wash. - based online bible - study resource retailer.

The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President - elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, is likely to rehash racially charged allegations that derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black - voter intimidation under the Reagan administration.

All of her work is outstanding, but Rebecca's Dear President series just on a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award.

Iain Black, president and CEO, Vancouver Board of Trade This budget reflects the type of long - term thinking that needs to be shown in a global context of the need for more free trade, particularly with Asia, South America and Europe.

Darren Tristano, executive vice president of Technomic, a restaurant industry research firm in Chicago, isn't sure the heartland is ready to trade in well - marbled Black Angus for ground turkey wraps just yet.

He was the first president of CBS Digital and sits on the Boards of Discovery Communications, Inc., American Media Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Appinions, Inc., Black Arrow Inc., and Harvard Business School Publishing.

President Donald Trump is considering a full, posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted of racially tinged federal morals charges more than a century ago.

No, it's not Independence Day or President's Day or anything like that; it's Black Friday, also known as the most important shopping day of the year.

Our days are consumed by consumption, our calendars an endless parade of Presidents» Day sales, Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays.

I think there were some people in this country who thought that all was well because of the symbolism of our first black president.

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

«Black Friday itself was low because sales were cannibalized by Thursday (Thanksgiving Day),» said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners.

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

In today's issue of The Province newspaper, Board of Trade President and CEO Iain Black writes about Ottawa's proposed tax changes and the #HitThePauseButton campaign.

In this Message to Members, President and CEO Iain Black unveils the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's five inaugural Pillar Partners.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

In this Message to Members, Board of Trade President and CEO Iain Black discusses the federal government's proposed changes to business taxes.

The letter, which was sent by Board of Trade President and CEO Iain Black, aims to «assist the region's Mayors in the preparation of a regional transportation vision.»

In this Message to Members, The Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, discusses what Greater Vancouver's business community can expect from some of Canada's newly appointed cabinet ministers.

The Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, sent a letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson, city councillors, and Parks Board commissioners yesterday afternoon outlining our organization's support for the Vancouver Aquarium and its current cetacean policy.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

Winning the Lou Dobbs Career - Management Award, Joe Galli decides to leave the number two job at Black & Decker to become CEO of PepsiCo's Frito - Lay division — only to change his mind hours later and accept the job of president and COO of Amazon.com.

Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

In August 2011, The Board of Trade announced the appointment of new President and CEO Iain Black.

Under the leadership of Chair Elio Luongo and President and CEO Iain Black, The Vancouver Board of Trade also restored its balance sheet in 2014, eliminating its deficit within just two years — a full three years ahead of a board - approved plan.

In a Message to Members, President and CEO Iain Black shares a brief overview of Federal Budget 2018 and four key highlights for the B.C. business community.

Tim most recently led Black Canvas Consulting with assignments such as Strategic Advisor to the President's Office of Export Development Canada.

«Kanye looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it's been in the history of our country... he sees that and he's smart, and he says Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did,» the president added.

While the business community will always be cautious when it comes to embracing large deficits, we are satisfied that many key economic investments and priorities have been included,» said Iain Black, President and CEO, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

There are several elements that will serve our small business community, and our female Members in particular,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.