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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.
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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.
This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.
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.
Irish rock band U2 was forced to cancel its St. Louis concert scheduled Saturday over security concerns after Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police following the not guilty verdict of Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.
Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.
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.
It is the emergence of this left, beginning with the black power activists led by Stokely Carmichael, that derailed the integration process and the authentic civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King — a movement which had fought for the idea of a single standard: one justice, indivisible, for all.
On a visit to Parliament Square in the 1960s, Mandela had joked with fellow activist Oliver Tambo that one day they would see a statue of a black person there.
In January, 2010 Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, a Pro-Life activist and a leader of the black community held a Pro-Life rally in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 371.
His recent biography of the black intellectual and activist Darcus Howe, co-written with Paul Field, is published by Bloomsbury.
In April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custody.
Cerberus Capital Management, the hedge fund with headquarters at 875 Third Avenue, are as guilty as the criminals who sell guns on the black market and the legislators who refuse to fight for stricter gun control, said activists who converged at the firm's offices this past month.
Dressed in gray corporate attire to blend in with the businesswomen in the audience, the activists unfurled pink banners with «Stop Supporting the War» in black letters and briefly yelled the phrase at Clinton from the back of the room until they were hustled out by security guards.
I'm not going with that guy,» said Lewis, the founder and president of The Black Institute and the former head of the defunct liberal activist group ACORN.
New York City fast food workers involved in the $ 15 - an - hour wage battle came together with Black Lives Matter and civil rights activists and headed to Washington at the beginning of the month to participate in the second Million Man March.
The «big black head» in Martin Luther King Park is a mistake, and has to be replaced with a statue that looks more like the slain civil rights leader, according to Samuel A. Herbert, a community activist who is leading a petition drive.
Activists wearing all black smashed store windows and car windows and fought with police in riot gear, according to Reuters.
In a phone interview, the Black Panther - turned - «elected activist» said that, after much deliberation with his political organization Operation P.O.W.E.R., he had decided he would be more effective in the Democrat - dominated Assembly than in the Republican - run State Senate.
«We're going to fight this,» said Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, as he gathered with some two hundred elected officials, teachers, parents and activists on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, at the latest in a series of protests against Black Thursday evening.
Also at 6 p.m., People's Power Assembly and Black Lives Matter activists hold a rally and protest in solidarity with Charlotte, NC, uprising against protest brutality and to «demand an end to police attacks and reprisals against protesters there,» Harlem State Office Bldg, 163 West 125th St., Manhattan.
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The activist, with close ties to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Clinton campaign, cited several high - profile moves by Jeffries to defend Clinton in the face of attacks by Bernie Sanders as evidence of his newly emerged point man's role.
«Over the last week, he has personally spoken with members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, PBA President Pat Lynch, community activists including Russell Simmons and Shawn «Jay - Z» Carter, and district attorneys from across the state and looks forward to continuing this dialogue with additional stakeholders in the coming days and weeks,» she said.
She kept applying for chances to work with colleagues abroad, but in communist - era Poland, the government reviewed foreign - fellowship applications, and her activity as a Solidarity activist was a black mark on her record.
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If you've paid any attention to the young adult book market over the past couple of years, you're probably familiar with The Hate U Give, author Angie Thomas «s wildly popular best - seller about a young black woman who becomes an activist after seeing the police gun down her unarmed friend.
Many who appeared at the Golden Globes wore black, showed up with activists and spoke up in order to bring awareness to sexual misconduct in Hollywood.
This wasn't lost on its guests, with many marking the new era of awareness by wearing black, inviting activists to the red carpet, or making brutal, barbed comments about the film industry's disgraced men.
Meryl Streep, in her interview with Ryan Seacrest — an interview she conducted with the activist Ai - jen Poo — summed up the optics of tonight's red carpet like so: «We feel sort of emboldened in this particular moment to stand together in a thick black line dividing then from now.»
The other character types in the film including Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse) the hot girl, Shiley (Andrea Bowen) and McKenzie (Evanna Lynch) the religious types, Sophie (Molly Tarlov) the I am not sure if she's a lesbian or a rebel, Soledad (Joanna «JoJo» Levesque), the activist, Glen, the straight guy who everyone thinks is gay, and lastly, Caprice (Xosha Roquemore), who more or less is your typical black girl with a hot shot attitude and is big on trying to promote diversity within the school.
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.
Sunday night's Bafta film awards will see Britain's biggest stars joined by activists on the red carpet, while many attendees will wear black in solidarity with Time's Up — the movement launched following the sexual harassment scandal which engulfed Hollywood after an avalanche of allegations were made against film producer Harvey Weinstein.
The Focus on Time's Up: From the all - black dress code in protest of sexual harassment — which nearly everyone in attendance followed — to the widespread exaltation of the Time's Up initiative to each of the actresses who walked the red carpet with an activist as their date, this year's Globes was about so much more than handing out trophies.
Between pre-show coverage rife with breathless anticipation for accessories women would wear with their black dresses, cutting off activists while asking after their more famous dates» nominations, and Debra Messing calling out the network for being embroiled in an equal - pay lawsuit while she was being interviewed by E!, the coverage was a general mess.
May 13, 2018 • Dave Zirin's new biography portrays a black liberation activist with a conservative streak, a man with an alleged history of violence against women and maybe the greatest running back in NFL history.
Seberg, the darling of the French New Wave era, became romantically and politically involved with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (to be played by Anthony Mackie) and became a target of the FBI for her part in the Black Power movement of the 1960s.
Boots Riley (writer / director) / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.
The 75th Golden Globes was a big night for symbolic, statement - making style on the red carpet, thanks to a parade of powerfully dressed women in an inky sea of black dresses, accessorized with Time's Up lapel pins and accompanied by female activists.
Boots Riley / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.
Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlBlack Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlblack neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.
Derrick, a scholar and activist who had been the first Black tenured law professor at Harvard University, explained that Black people in this country have made progress only when our interests converged with the interests of people in power.
Howard Fuller's memoir, written with Lisa Frazier Page, chronicles his journey from political activist to school superintendent and back again, revealing along the way the monumental challenge of ensuring that poor black children have access to a high - quality education.
Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.
Writer, activist and teacher, Pamela Lewis shared, «Many black and brown teachers are just as disengaged with our current school system as that of their students, and like many... Read More
That many in the school reform movement have either been reluctant or outright hostile about working with Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform activists on addressing issues that are tied to schools (including overuse of harsh school discipline and the penchant of traditional districts to refer children to juvenile courts), has also made it easy for NEA and AFT to win over some activists.
He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
When Evelyn's activist grandmother arrives from Puerto Rico in 1969, the 14 - year - old is inspired to join the Young Lords, who are working closely with the Black Panthers.
The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self - proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas.