Sentences with phrase «black activist medgar»

A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law who has never sullied himself with the actual practice of law (nor even passed the qualifying exam) and preeminent black activist and «legal» writer he is the obvious choice.

The list further apes the House of Lords with its phoney ethno - spiritual inclusiveness (one green Moslem, one green Hindu property developer, one black activist).

There are also artists who tackle LGBT issues, including Félix González - Torres and Zoe Leonard, and seven works of Ligon's own, including a colouring - book picture of Malcolm X, in which the black activist has been left with white skin.

Over dinner at Red Rooster in Harlem, Beasley and Jones joined ARTnews to discuss Jones's new book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press), and Beasley's recent project at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, an installation inspired by a historic image of black activist Huey P. Newton and an altarpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome.

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

Brittany Packnett showed up as her full self to talk about what it is like to be a black activist for justice in all white spaces.

Fair is a black activist and head of the Urban League of Greater Miami.

Finally there are the people connected to the Democratic rally being planned at the hotel, including an angry black activist (Nick Cannon) and a Czech reporter who wants to interview Kennedy (Svetlana Metkina).

One of the main critiques of the impromptu social media campaign was its unacceptable overshadowing of Tarana Burke, a black activist who started the movement over a decade ago.

But he also meets a beautiful black activist, Nina (Halle Berry), who gives him a reason to live.

Synopsis: In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.) is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward wh... [MORE]

«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.

Bertha Lewis, a black activist with deep ties to de Blasio, is giving a civic award to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, raising eyebrows in political circles because Stringer is being mentioned as a possible challenger to the mayor's 2017 re-election.

In a speech a few years ago, black activist Jesse Jackson described what needs to happen in the movement.

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

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

While on a road trip, the black activist had stopped at a Cracker Barrel, which has paid millions to settle lawsuits over racial discrimination, and posted, «At Cracker Barrel 4 the 1st time.

In this week's roundup: A push for a new domestic terrorism law, Gonzo journalism on Nazis in Maine and a black activist saves a white supremacist.

The New Black Panthers Party, a radical group of black activists, have promised to show up armed.

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

With half of all U.S. adults already in police facial recognition databases and the 2018 midterm election season upon us, the issue of political data mining feels urgent to Black activists.

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

The isolation of black activists was almost complete.

About as hilarious as Black activists calling other Blacks «Uncle Toms» because of their disavowing Black hatred and criminality.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Malcolm X was an activist for black rights, but his ideas were not quite in line with the more popular notions of other black activists like Martin Luther King.

About the same period, and not far from where Hampton died, a group of black activists, under the leadership of the Reverend Arthur M. Brazier, was organizing around much the same premise: self - determination.

The schools were part of an experiment in «community control,» an approach to school reform then favored by liberals and black activists.

But as black activists in Boston noted at the time, «It's not the bus, it's us.»

Mounting pressure from black activists and the federal government had driven the desegregation goal.

The show profiles Black activists, academics, business leaders, sports figures, elected officials, artists and writers.

Horror stories were broadcast with glee and broke the resolve of so many black activists.

At a time when being black meant being keenly aware of his race and place within society, Lewis traversed both the Abstract Expressionist sphere and that of black activists.

Jafa began to throw such videos into a folder on his computer desktop, along with clips of prominent black activists and athletes, rappers in videos, and people dancing.

Gore got himself into trouble with black activists last month when he compared the fight against global warming to the emancipation of black slaves.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.

But he called the remarks hypocritical, considering Clarke had tied rhetoric from Obama and Black Lives Matter activists to violence for years.

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By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

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.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

When Fortune talked to them for this story, the two were fresh from their Black Corporate Directors Conference, which for 15 years has been an annual confab that's part power networking event and part activist training.

Harrison Jacobs: The top line headline about you, in the New York Times and other outlets is that you've sued the police 75 times, you are the lawyer for Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and every other major activist group.

But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag.

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.

From her home office, Gloria Baylis — better known as a Black rights activist after she successfully sued the Hilton chain for discrimination in 1966 — imported and distributed medical devices for neurosurgery.

At 56, he pursued elected office for the first time after a 30 - year career defending radical activist groups like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia.