Sentences with phrase «black candidates among»

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Among the leading tropes about today's Republican Party is that it is so inhospitable to African Americans that no serious black candidate wants to run under its banner — especially...

Among the eight candidates, all were men and five were black or Hispanic.

In remarks on the floor during the Council Charter session Council Member Inez Barron offered herself as an alternative speaker candidate, harshly criticizing the absence of any black speaker among the four people who've held the position and the continuation of that reality with the selection of Johnson.

In the last two elections, Rangel has also faced challenges from African - American candidates looking to tap into discontent among his core group of black supporters in Central Harlem and white voters moving into the district.

Trailing among African - American voters, independent Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh picked up the endorsement of one of the city's most prominent black elected officials: Common Councilor - At - Large Helen Hudson.

Labour MPs David Lammy and Tulip Siddiq and Operation Black Vote's Simon Woolley are among those who have called for the party to step up efforts to choose BAME candidates.

Reitzel and her colleague Elaine Savoy, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of psychology at the University of Houston, studied the relationship between financial strain and self - rated health among 1,341 Black adults from a large Methodist church in Houston.

Neutral hues like navy, black, and gray will have you fading into the background — not standing out among the candidates.

Individuals are more likely to recruit those with experiences and backgrounds similar to their own.52 To counter this, some businesses now hold recruiting events at historically black colleges and universities, such as Howard University, to diversify their applicant pools.53 These events allow companies to be more selective among a larger, more diverse group of candidates.

Among the eggs the rats like to munch are those of the petite, black and white Xantus's murrelet, which nests only on Santa Barbara and Anacapa islands and is a candidate for listing as a threatened species, officials say.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, a London - based Ghanaian artist, is among the group and the first black woman to be a final candidate for the modern art prize.