Sentences with phrase «black leaders»

We are building a pipeline of Black leaders in education, and this is just the beginning.
I could not look to Black leaders in this situation because they are consumed with the politics of the district vs. charter debate, just like many others in education.
Our black president has to raise the standard of expectations for black leaders to calm the storm, not create it.
This is not an attack on Black leaders today, this is a cry for help.
All these so called black leaders are nothing more than «quota» men.
«We've actually grown by 20 — 30 percent in the last year or two alone our senior black leaders,» he said.
I think it is a legitimate question to ask why black leaders are not at least trying to do more to address the causes of this violence.
The explosive visuals pulse to a running soundtrack of recordings of black leaders, musicians, ministers, poets, and celebrities.
As far as politics are concerned it is relevant for black leaders to concern themselves with this issue or they would simply be «so - called» leaders.
And amid the concerns, there are other black leaders who are fully backing Cuomo.
(The governor ended up doing just that, even though he retained a degree of support from black leaders like Rep. Charlie Rangel (that meant more at the time because it was pre-ethics charges).
Bronx Democrat Michael Benjamin, the other black leader quoted in the story, didn't say he agreed with that sentiment, but indicated he knew where it came from.
Perhaps the most forceful directive is when Pendleton has Rainer read aloud a text that collages together descriptions of police shootings of black men by Keeanga - Yahmahtta Taylor, quotes from Black leaders like Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael, lines from Ron Silliman's poetry, and snippets from a 1969 letter written to Rainer by her friend Barbara Dilley about performing one of her pieces.
True to form, though, he downplays his own accomplishments, pointing out that he's one of many black leaders who've emerged from the organization in recent years.
Senator Klein said: «Black History Month provides an opportunity to not just reflect and recognize the achievements of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but also the contributions made by black leaders in their local communities.
It was a very different tone than the controversial black leader used during his weekly radio address just four days ago, which also featured Rangel and former Mayor David Dinkins, both Wright backers.
The moment that mirage is discovered has been a formative experience for many militant black leaders.
Earlier this month, the governor met with a small group of influential black leaders in Albany about education equity funding, related to a proposal he made in January.
Sources say that about 30 people met yesterday, among them the state's most prominent black leaders met privately in Mt. Vernon, just north of New York City, yesterday amid ongoing concern about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket - and with an eye toward asking specific requests of gubernatorial nominee Andrew Cuomo.
I belong to a predominately white church, we elect the best qualified for a particular office: we have many black leaders as well as Hispanic, Asian and Orientals.
Silver's resignation from the speakership, a post he held since 1994, led to the rise of the first black leader of the Assembly.
As I began to read through the articles, I found topics about the NAACP and Black Lives Matter being pitted against Black leaders in education.
I guess you learned nothing from what black leaders fought tirelessy for in the 1960's.
It's great to celebrate our great black leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., but we must also salute our unsung heroes in Westchester County who put in the work locally.
The controversial black leader launched the fusillade of apparent attacks on candidates Clyde Williams and State Senator Adriano Espaillat during a gathering with supporters broadcast from the Harlem headquarters of his National Action Network.
Some of New York's trailblazing black leaders in state government say while they are sad to see Obama leaving office, his inspiration as the country's first black president will continue to guide them.
During the early to mid-1920s, she was commissioned to create several sculptures, including a bust of NAACP leader W.E.B. Du Bois and charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey — two key black leaders of the period who were often at odds with each other.
And as we see first - hand in neighborhoods across New York and Connecticut, charter schools are creating avenues of hope in historically underserved Black communities, empowering Black educators and families, and educating the young Black leaders of tomorrow in unique and innovative ways.
Still, while serving as public advocate, Mr. de Blasio called for Mr. Paterson's resignation, leading black leaders to vent their frustration with his position in a closed - door meeting, according to the Associated Press and New York Post.
The Rev. Al Sharpton was one of the expected major black leaders at the meeting with Andrew Cuomo and Bill Thompson, Carl McCall and others this morning, but he didn't come.
People (some erstwhile liberal or labor supporters of the freedom movement who never had difficulty accommodating to the ancient practice of white domination and exclusiveness) profess shock and alarm when Black leaders assert that the time has come to secure majority rule in the counties, cities, towns, congressional, senatorial and state assembly districts where Blacks are the majority.
During a meeting in December 2010, Black leaders gathered at CDF Haley Farm to discuss the problems Black youth face and promising approaches.
We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.
The fact that one political party is the depository of the black vote has troubled black leaders for generations.
The bulk of black voters remained loyal to the Republican Party, and the endorsement of Wilson from DuBois and other black leaders backfired.
He added that half of his 10 direct reports are women and two are LGBT, and that the company has been working to promote a program called Advancing Black Leaders.
It is a pity that, in order to be a respected black leader in the USA, one must call oneself a «reverend» and come up through the ranks as a preacher.
The mainstream black leaders who dismissed him as a rabble - rouser today embrace his cultural philosophy and urge blacks to love themselves first before they even think about loving others.
However, while BAME members make up an increasing proportion of those sat in the pews, one of the Church of England's most significant black leaders recently voiced concerns about the lack of ethnically diverse leadership in its hierarchy.
In North Carolina, black leaders helped lead the successful campaign for a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage and domestic partnerships.
The rabbi, his mother, Mr. Boswell, and all those brave black leaders he heard gave him the message: «You are black.
Some strong black leaders joined, and a number of suburban liberals, happy to find a church that really acted on the denomination's social principles, drove into town to work in Trinity's new ministries.
Sadly, many — including black leaders as well as the church — would rectify that by having blacks accept traditional gender ideology, which would strengthen «weak» black men and weaken strong black women (although a strong black woman would be welcome, of course, to use her strength solely to bolster her man).
Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.
Cynthia Nixon took heat from black leaders over her comments that creating a legalized pot industry in New York could serve as a form of reparations in black communities.

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