Sentences with phrase «black communities at»

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

Do they really think that the Repubs have the black community at heart?

No less than 24 percent of all American children are living with a single mother, a percentage that is roughly the same as it was for the black community at the time Moynihan wrote his report.

Not exact matches

Last night, Fortune «s sister publication Essence and Black Employees At Time Inc., one of the company's six community groups, treated us to an advanced screening of the season two premiere of Insecure.

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.

This only adds to the stress of black professional women who are often focused on maintaining equilibrium at home and in their communities.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMablack community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMaBlack Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

When he and Beyoncé appeared at a vigil for Trayvon Martin that same year, his presence alone wasn't enough for some, who called him out for not taking a more outspoken position on the issues affecting the black community.

Business, government and community leaders come together at this black - tie gala to officially induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Immediate Past Chair into the Council of Governors.

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But co-founder Marian Goodell has hinted at another major change: expanding beyond Black Rock Desert — the dusty Nevada expanse that's become almost synonymous with the festival — and developing a private tract of land as a permanent Burning Man community.

The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA), Charlotte Chapter, a non-profit organization established in 1985, is a professional development organization serving the Charlotte community at large.

Using a Lean Startup Methodology tailored for communities of color, DID excels at 1) finding Black and Latina women entrepreneurs with high growth companies and game changing ideas, 2) connecting them to an unmatched network of investors, mentors, and influencers, 3) developing their start - up toolkit and leadership skills, and 4) supporting their entrepreneurship journey from the build phase to exit with the goal of helping create companies that have a strong positive impact on the economic health of their local communities.

Dr.King was a social conservative and would be «disgusted» at the decay of morals of the Black community and family thanks to the Federal Gov welfare hand - out system now and everyone» as a baby daddy...

I hang out with a bunch of black sheep at The Lasting Supper, our online community.

Truth is, I don't think the Black community has any more issues, other then white cops shooting at them,, afterall, the president is Black.

Imagine a community where whatever your race, whether black, or white, or Hispanic, or Asian, when people looked at you, they just saw a heart, a soul, and a spirit.

If anyone thought the black community turned out at the polls for Obama watch the Gay community turn out this time against all of these Republicans.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

The Holy Spirit's interruption of this world at Pentecost with a new community of Jews and gentiles, privileged and marginalized, is not realized in the church in the U.S. Ninety percent of African - American Christians worship in all - black churches.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Although the international community looks upon these artificial fiefdoms as internal colonies, the regime had high hopes for this plan until foreign pressure at least momentarily suspended the policy of denying blacks citizenship in their own country.

Alinsky was a regular lecturer there, along with other community theorists and practitioners: Richard Hauser, Milton Kotler (usually accompanied by Pastor Leopold Bemhard, then at First Lutheran in Columbus, Ohio), SDS neighborhood organizers, SCLC clergy from many cities, SNCC organizers, Maulana Ron Karenga of black nationalist work in California, Ivan Illich of Puerto Rican New York and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

And it is this creed which makes possible the black Christian or black church community — one that some of the faith have hinted at over the years.

At the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college studentAt the University of Virginia as at other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college studentat other universities, mainline religion, while admittedly one of the black community's most important institutions, holds the least interest for black college students.

In fact, if the Black community committed murders at the same rate as other communities, the US rate would be about half what it is today, and not much higher than Belgium or Canada.

For lower socioeconomic women and often black women, yes, a marriageable man is one who has a job, but drug use and trafficking, under - or unemployment, the high rates of men in jail and the higher mortality rates for black men in their community put them at marital disadvantage — there are fewer men in their dating pool (And as I addressed previously, strong black women are often seen as being a detriment to black men's masculinity.)

Black and Minority Ethnic DAD Cards: aimed at fathers from specific British BME communities — Afro - Caribbean, Muslim, Somali, French - speaking West African, Bengali and Polish.

«Our ultimate goal here at the department is for communities to take ownership of their school cafeterias, similarly to how we all push for excellence in the classroom, the arts and athletics,» said Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black.

So when she staged her first local recital Aug. 25 at the Aurora Township Youth and Community Center, her greatest wish was for Pamela Black to be in the audience.

«Some of the letters are handwritten, semi-literate, pencil letters from rural, black communities in Alabama — and then some are from Fifth Avenue,» says Janet Golden, a historian at Rutgers — Camden.

At 5:30 p.m., Rep. Yvette Clarke and the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls host «She's the Boss»: #BlackWomanAtWorkBK community forum, St. Francis College, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

At 6:30 p.m., state Sen. Jamaal Bailey hosts a roundtable on building black wealth in the community, Dreiser Loop Community Center, 177 Dreiser Loocommunity, Dreiser Loop Community Center, 177 Dreiser LooCommunity Center, 177 Dreiser Loop, Bronx.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

At 6:30 p.m., Manhattan Community Board 11 holds a public hearing, National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn), the only black female New York congressional lawmaker, told Observer that she was motivated by issues at the federal level which affect her community, including comprehensive immigration reform and minority - and women - owned businesses.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

On Saturday, February 10, 2018, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. hosted his annual celebration of Black History Month at the Einstein Community Room in the Co-op City section of The Bronx.

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.

At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)-RRB-.

Outstanding community members and talented college scholarship winners were recognized QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz hosted a celebration of Black History Month last night (Monday, February 23) in the Faculty Dining Room of York College, located at 94 - 20 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard in Jamaica.

[21] The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that the planned arrest was part of Operation Trident, which at that time investigated gun crime within the black community.

On Sunday, February 21, the Bronx Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. presents its 2016 Black History Month community arts event, Our Voices, Our Story, Our History at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse (East -LSB-...]

At 2 p.m., the Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus and the Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force will announce new measures to provide a meaningful and sustainable voice for APA communities across New York, LCA Room 130, Albany.

At 2 p.m., Rep. José Serrano and state Sen. José Serrano host their annual Black History Month Celebration and honor Rep. Charles Rangel and others, Hostos Community College, Savoy Manor or «D» Building, 120 E. 149th St., the Bronx.

At 3 p.m., community activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, tcommunity activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, tCommunity Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, the Bronx.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. José E. Serrano and state Sen. José M. Serrano host a Black History Month Celebration honoring NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Bronx DA Darcel Clark and others, Hostos Community College, D Building / Savoy Manor Building multipurpose room, 120 E. 149th St, the Bronx.