Sentences with phrase «black governors in the country»

Obama was concerned that Paterson, at the time one of just two black governors in the country, was vulnerable because of a number of scandals swirling around his administration.

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Abrams, who could become the country's first - ever black female governor, describes the realities of growing up in a working class household and providing financial support to numerous family members.

Noting that Nigeria boasts of very rich culture and heritage, Governor Ambode said it was not in doubt that the country has the largest concentration of the black race, adding that Lagos sits in a better position to tell the story of the black race.

The governor of the Bank of England also used his speech in the Black Country to warn countries against retreating into protectionism, saying that might precipitate another crisis in the same mould as the Great Depression.