Sentences with phrase «black city state»

«We are undoubtedly the world's largest and most celebrated black city state.

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Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Black migrants from the South fanned out to cities across the Midwest and Northeast — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York — in states that happened to be rich in electoral votes.

The plane made it only about a mile from Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport before it nose - dived toward a state highway intersection and exploded into a ball of fire and black smoke, which could be seen across the northern suburbs of the city.

Many cities across the United States and the world have museums focused on the history and contributions of black people.

America divides itself: States, Counties, Districts, Cities, Blocks, Gangs, Red, Blue, Right, Left, Atheist, Jew, Christian, Non -, White, Black, Hispanic, Gun - toting, Peace - loving, Rich, Poor, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

The good thing is that the black pepper and lime combo has become really popular and commonplace in the States in the last year or so - check out any potato chip rack at natural food stores and supermarkets alike all over the city.

His vast experience positions him well for the Black Bottle Brand Ambassador role as the blended Scotch rolls out across New York and other key cities in the United States.

When Freddie Gray dies, when the murder rates rise, when suddenly the rest of the country realizes the state of another city — that's when Baltimore matters, when the black lives matter.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, «Free at last!

There was no animosity on Saturday when Mrs. Clinton, accompanied by State Assemblyman Walter T. Mosley; Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York; and New York City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, shook hands with mostly black New Yorkers at Junior's, the iconic cheesecake hub on Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn.

Putting to rest a mystery that initially puzzled investigators, the New York City medical examiner's office ruled that the death of Sheila Abdus - Salaam, the first black woman to serve on New York State's highest court, was a suicide by drowning.

Niagara Falls State Park was packed with visitors around 4 p.m. Saturday when foul - smelling, black discharge came billowing out into the Niagara River within sight of the base of the American Falls, alarming city businesses and tourists as it engulfed the shoreline from the Rainbow Bridge to the Maid of the Mist boat dock.

«Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York State Conference Director; Arva Rice President and CEO, the New York Urban League; Phil Banks President, 100 Black Men New York Chapter; H. Carl McCall, Former New York State Comptroller; Bill Thompson, Jr., Former New York City Comptroller; Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, 36th SD; Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, New York's 57th AD; Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York's 43rd AD; Assemblyman Carl Heastie, New York's 83rd AD; Assemblywoman Helen Foster, New York's 16th CD; Councilwoman Letiticia James, New York's 35th CD; Councilman Jumaane Williams New York's 45th CD; District Leader Eric Stevenson, 79th AD

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of city and state budget - cutting teacher layoffs, Rep. Michael Grimm weighed in on LIFO with Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, calling it «unacceptable» during a meeting with her in his Washington office.

[1] Her professional experience includes working as an attorney for the New York City Board of Education, the consumer frauds bureau, the New York State Attorneys General Office, working as an executive director of New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, working as an attorney for the Queens County District Attorneys Office and serving as the Chief of Staff for State Senator Ada Smith.

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

Virtually all other prominent black political figures — including former Mayor David Dinkins, US Rep. Charles Rangel and former state Comptroller Carl McCall — have joined the city's Democratic leadership in endorsing Stringer.

The budget states that workers» compensation insurance for ride - hailing service drivers will be offered through the New York Black Car Operators» Injury Compensation Fund, an injury compensation fund that gives benefits to drivers in New York City.

Sheehan spent most of her State of the City address drowned out by chanting union members and Black Lives Matter protesters.

In celebration of Black History Month, state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) bestowed honors upon three black New Yorkers for what they have done for the city, Queens and East ElmhBlack History Month, state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) bestowed honors upon three black New Yorkers for what they have done for the city, Queens and East Elmhblack New Yorkers for what they have done for the city, Queens and East Elmhurst.

«Not only is marijuana an untapped revenue source for the city and the state, but the prosecution of marijuana - related crimes has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on black and Hispanic communities for far too long.»

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

The City Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another yCity Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another ycity in the black for another year.

A coalition of Republican Senators and police unions has launched an online petition urging the state parole board not to release a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing two New York City police officers — Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones — in 1971.

The IDC is helping black and Hispanic students gain entry to top city schools with $ 2 million in new state funding, setting aside the money in the $ 155 billion state budget that was finalized by the state legislature and Cuomo April 1.

Black has previously worked for the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the state Senate.

MANHATTAN — State Education Commissioner David Steiner has announced the team that will help him decide whether to grant Cathie Black a waiver allowing her to become the city's next schools chancellor.

But Mr. Rangel had unseated the first black congressman from New York, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in 1970 and in the years since, Harlem has produced the city's first black mayor, David N. Dinkins, and the state's first black governor, David A. Paterson.

On Friday, Upper Manhattan Councilman Robert Jackson, the chair of the City Council Education Committee, sent a letter to New York State Education Department Commissioner David Steiner urging him not to certify Black for the job.

David N. Dinkins became the first black mayor of New York City, and David A. Paterson became the state's first black governor.

Sen. Martin Golden agreed with Black that Cuomo's budget calls for New York City to bear an unfair share of the cuts in state education aid.

Walcott then added to what Black said, insisting that the city works in tandem with the state to identify poorly performing schools.

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.

He asked Black what legislation City Hall plans to put forward to deal with the state mandates the Bloomberg administration says are so burdensome.

Hours after news broke that the controversial and short - lived city Schools Chancellor Cathie Black had resigned, State Education Department Commissioner Daniel Steiner — the man who signed the waiver that allowed her to take the job — was also on his way out.

The assemblyman, who started his political career as a Black Panther, was referring the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a lawsuit brought by New York City parents against the state in the»90s.

Black, 66, has been under fire from several city officials who say that the Hearst chairman should not receive the state waiver she needs to get the job because of her lack of education experience.

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

In a report published last year, the Black Institute — run by Bertha Lewis, a former ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio who has since become a sharp critic — noted that unlike the city, the state has not released any data beyond the split between women - owned businesses and minority - owned businesses.

Namely: The standards we have been using for years prepare only 37 % of state graduates for college, including only 21 % in New York City and only 13 % of black and 15 % of Hispanic students.

She rattled off her accomplishments such as serving as a counsel to the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus in Albany where she said they rewrote Article 15A of the state of New York to promote diversity in the contracts in the state and her work in drafting Local Law 1 — a law that governs the city's MWBE program — while serving as councilwoman in Brooklyn.

ALBANY - The law firm of a Long Island Republican running in a crucial state Senate special election once represented a firefighter fired by the city after riding on a Labor Day parade float that reenacted the dragging death of a black man.

«In a special intelligence led operation conducted by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the IGP's Monitoring Unit at different black spots in Kogi State, three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighbouring States were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba Towns in Kogi State.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Karim Camara spoke with «Inside City Hall» on Tuesday about his new position as chairman of New York State's Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus.

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

In addition to his private outreach, Mr. Cuomo has appeared alongside mostly black and Latino residents multiple times this month to decry the «filth» of New York City Housing Authority developments and to threaten to declare a state of emergency for the agency.