Sentences with phrase «black activists»

Do they draw on iconic photographs of black activists forty years ago?

She and other black activists wanted schools outside of the public system that they could create and control.

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

At the same time, she continued to create portraits of political personalities including black activists, and supporters of feminist movements.

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

She also maintained her practice of painting political personalities, including black activists and supporters of the women's movement.

In an online statement, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network denounced the comparison, saying that Gore «gives climate change activists unearned moral credibility» by associating these important moral movements of history with a crusade «grounded in questionable data.»

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.

Lord Ouseley - former chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, one of the EHRC's predecessor organisations - joined London strikers to show his support, as did Lee Jasper, one of the founders of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts and a former adviser to Ken Livingstone.

These orbiting conversations on art, identity, and progress also inevitably invoke art history, whose canonical texts and exhibitions have routinely excluded black artists from major exhibitions (perhaps most recently Art Aids America, criticized by black activists in person and Julia Bryan - Wilson in print).

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.

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

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with....

In New York, where we had lived on our first arrival in the U.S., I had made acquaintances among black activists and the Students for a Democratic Society, and had cheered on the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination of Sen. Eugene McCarthy.

«We are also working with organisations like Black Activists Rising Against Cuts and supporting initiatives like the Hardest Hit march last week - because black people, migrant communities and disabled people are not to blame for the crisis, but they are some of the worst - hit victims of it.

«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.

Civil rights activist Johnetta Elzie notes that white gun control activists emerged from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting in February with corporate sponsors — while black activists are left looking in from the outside.

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

He's particularly popular with older, male black activists, while younger voters, and children of the black nationalist movement, tend to back Jeffries.

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

It's no wonder that black activist Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hits a nerve with the pointed advice she dispenses to fellow students on her radio show, «Dear White People.»

When black activists try to lure him away from the rock scene and instill in him a need to represent his «people,» he responds with something like «They're all my people man.»

The story is set among a group of black activists agitating against racism and police brutality, and the city is portrayed as a shabby, smouldering dystopia about to erupt into apocalyptic violence.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

In a special second segment «By Any Means Necessary» is joined by Ashton P. Woods, Community Activist with Black Lives Matter Houston, and Chas Moore, Co-founder, and Executive Director of the Austin Justice Coalition to talk about the ongoing series of bombings in Austin, Texas, the racial implications to the bombings and the media coverage of them, and the long history of violent efforts to stop black activists and movements.

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

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

Blacks around the country have reacted to Trump's high - profile feud with civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis of Georgia with fury, and the subject has dominated social media and discussions among black activists.

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.

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

The site, which describes itself as promoting a «Judeo - Christian ethic,» and recently posted an article declaring that a black activist protesting Confederate statues needed «a serious beat down,» does not appear to attract advertisers directly.

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.

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.

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.

The isolation of black activists was almost complete.

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.

The United Presbyterian Church was seriously divided in 1971 over a $ 10,000 contribution by the Council on Church and Race to a legal defense fund for Angela Davis, a black activist and revolutionary.

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

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.

The black activist backed the then - state legislator's failed 2005 campaign for Manhattan Borough president, but favored Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright in the race to fill Rangel's spot — and even accused a pro-Espaillat group of attempting to suppress the district's African - American vote.