Sentences with phrase «black city elected official»

In 1977, after two failed attempts, the Rev. Wendell Foster won the seat, becoming the borough's first black city elected official.

Not exact matches

Many of New York City's black elected officials came to cheer Ms. Clinton on.

Public Advocate Letitia James, the city's highest - ranking black elected official, said this afternoon she is «incredibly disappointed» that Philip Banks, the NYPD's chief of department and highest - ranked uniformed officer, abruptly resigned today.

When Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in July after police placed him in a chokehold, Ms. James — now the highest - ranked African - American elected official in the city — did not lead the charge of critics decrying the alleged police brutality.

Numerous groups and elected officials have honored Roskoff, including the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights which won the fight for a city gay rights law, PFLAG, the Stonewall Democrats, the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, the Village Independent Democrats, and the city's Black Lives Matter chapter.

A state supreme court has ruled against elected officials and education advocates who argue that Cathleen Black is not qualified to be the New York City Schools Chancellor, and should not get a special waiver.

The celebration — which attracted more than 800 guests — included members of the de Blasio administration, elected officials and black community leaders in the city.

«In New York City, there's a whole lot of crap that goes on here that should not be happening in New York City because we have way too many black, brown, progressive elected officials and so if they're allowing this stuff to continue... switch it out,» he said.

But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a City Council seat in 2009.

Lewis said the Cuomo administration has «ignored black and brown elected officials, folks who reside in this city and this state.

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.

If she triumphs over a Republican in November, she would be the only black elected official in the city to represent a majority white district.

In the months since his comment about Stewart - Cousins, Loeb has been excoriated by prominent black politicians and educators, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Bloomberg schools chancellor Dennis Walcott and many of the city's black elected officials.

A coalition of neighborhood activists and elected officials has intensified its campaign to get the city to remove a Central Park statue of Dr. James Marion Sims, a white Southern doctor who performed experimental surgeries on enslaved black women.

The subtext was the reputation, careers, and political power of city black elected officials.

«We had never had a locally elected black official, a Democrat from a city like D.C., asking for something like this before,» said Nina Shokraii Rees, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, which is implementing the program.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724