Sentences with phrase «black director of»

It's a film of many firsts: «Black Panther's» protagonist T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the king of a secretive African nation, is the first black character to lead a Marvel cinematic universe film, while Ryan Coogler is the first black director of a Marvel film.

He's the first black director of a Marvel movie.

The black directors of hip hop biopic Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray) and sports drama Creed (Ryan Coogler) were also left out.

Not exact matches

She's a founding member of Cassels» diversity and inclusion committee and chair of the firm's black affinity group; a content director for the diversity and inclusion committee of the American Bar Association; and a member of two committees of the Black Female Lawyers Netblack affinity group; a content director for the diversity and inclusion committee of the American Bar Association; and a member of two committees of the Black Female Lawyers NetBlack Female Lawyers Network.

«It's a discussion that's going on more broadly than either you and I can imagine,» said Leslie Brun, lead director at Merck, one of the few large U.S. corporations with a black CEO.

As they walked, the two of them — Ibex's director and chief data scientist — were on the phone with a client and in passing mentioned rare, so - called black - swan events.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

Whether that charge is valid or not, Twitter got a diversity black eye when it announced its original all - white - male board of directors.

«What we hear often from companies is that people of color aren't applying,» says Mimi Fox Melton, director of community mobilization for Code2040, a nonprofit focused on developing black and Latinx leadership in tech.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Euroz managing director Andrew McKenzie (centre) with Euroz Securities managing director Rob Black (left) and head of retail dealing James Mackie

Professor Matthew Colless, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU, when he was a graduate student at Cambridge, had Hawking as a lecturer on gravitational physics and black holes.

On the Syrian black market, the dollar buys more than 500 Syrian pounds, according to Steve Hanke, director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute.

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

This strategy of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

The director of «Men in Black II,» Barry Sonnenfeld, revealed that he wanted Jackson to be in the first «Men in Black» movie as an alien (alongside famous faces George Lucas and Danny Devito), but that Jackson refused.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

Iain Black is President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade; Matt Pitcairn is President and CEO of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce; Tom Awrey is Executive Director of the Delta Chamber of Commerce.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

10:45 — 11:45 Session 3: Almost Space — UAVs, Balloons and Virtual Reality Moderator: Bradley Cheetham, CEO / President of Advanced Space, LLC Jack Elston, CEO, Black Swift Technologies Bradley Farquhar, Space Entrepreneur and Former Director of Business Development at SpaceVR Dylan Taylor, Super Angel & Founding Partner, Space Angels

Professor Yvan Allaire, chair of the IGOPP's board of directors, will participate at the upcoming World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos summit Professor Allaire was invited to join the WEF's recently created «Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business,» following publication of his work Black Markets and Business Blues, (which he co-wrote with Professor Mihaela -LSB-...]

This week, we sit down with Hillsong United to discuss their upcoming documentary «Let Hope Rise» from filmmaker Michael John Warren (the director of Jay Z's «Fade to Black») and the global worship movement.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

Which is actually a nice start, but also sort of like the country club board of directors saying, «Wait five years and we'll find a few token blacks.»

Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH, estimates that of the approximately 400,000 persons being held in American jails and prisons, 300,000 are either black or brown.

«There is an increase now in house churches,» said Fry Brown, the director of black church studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

Leave everything at @hm and buy BLACK... they will take our dollars but won't let us sit on board of directors.»

In late 1975, the executive director of New York's Congress of Italian - American Organizations charged that «white ethnics have been ignored in favor of Blacks and Hispanics» (Time, December 8, 1976).

Prior to joining Silverton Casino at the end of 2016, Ball served as the vice president of food and beverage for Westgate Las Vegas Resort and the Riviera Hotel Casino, and was the director of food and beverage at Valley View Casino & Hotel near San Diego and the Ameristar Black Hawk in Colorado.

WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Leon Bruner, Chief Science Officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), today announced that Glenn Black, GMA's Director of Science Operations, Food Protection, has been selected to chair the newly formed Food Safety Preventive Controls (FSPC) Alliance Steering and Executive Committee.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Andrew Young, the executive director of Australian grain trader Plum Grove, said supply from the Black Sea was landing in traditional markets at $ US40 a tonne cheaper than Australian wheat of similar protein content.

«Fatty meats such as sausage, bacon and pepperoni and starchy vegetables like white potatoes and corn as well as beans such as black, kidney, or pinto are not allowed,» says Leslie Bonci, MHP, RD, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center, Center for Sports Medicine.

A former technical director at Green & Black's and Whole Earth he is one of the foremost brand advisers to the natural and organic sector.

To support the launch of the new Black Pepper Cheeseburger, Jack in the Box tapped director Vince Gilligan, creator of the hit TV show Breaking Bad and co-creator of its spin - off series Better Call Saul.

The two men who have the most daily contact with the players, director of operations Cleve Bryant and strength coach Jeff Madden, are black, and Brown points out that all 11 starters on the Texas defense last season were black; 1991 was the last year in which white starters outnumbered black starters on defense.

«The SubAir was designed to handle heavy rains like they had at Bethpage Black [in 2009],» said Mike Giuffre, Congressional's director of golf course maintenance.

«Among junior boys I'd say five of our top 10 prospects are black, and it's probably seven or eight of the top 20,» says Rodney Harmon, director of men's tennis and former director of multicultural development for the USTA.

Matt Dudek, Michigan's Director Of Recruiting, is ready for the Wolverines to close on some prospects: Chugging that straight black dark...

Dick Fitzgerald, director of Seaside Resort Development, which operates Bayonet Black Horse said, «We are honored to be selected as the host of the 2018 PGA Professional Championship, and we welcome the return of the country's premier PGA Professionals.

British Athletics performance director Neil Black added: «We are fully supportive of Jo's wishes not to be considered for selection for the World Championships in Beijing.

«Beijing is a hugely important event to us, yet this is the first of three huge global competitions for us, with the Olympics in Rio next year and the home World championships in 2017,» said British Athletics performance director Neil Black.

Despite the disappointing loss, this was a great journey for the young Red and Blacks who played tonight in front of 4,478 fans at San Siro and the watchful gaze of the Club management: CEO Fassone, Sporting Director Mirabelli and coach Gattuso.

British Athletics performance director Neil Black said: «Greg is one of only a few British athletes to complete the «Grand Slam» of medals, but that won't make missing London any easier.