Sentences with phrase «black mayor does»
Praising his mentor, former Mayor David Dinkins, for presiding over New York City with «profound decency,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that the city's first black mayor doesn't get nearly enough credit for his accomplishments.
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In a wrongful termination suit against Black Equity, Johnson claims that the board of the organization told her it didn't look good for her to be seen endorsing a Jew for mayor.
«When you do some additional research, Baltimore has actually had three consecutive black women mayors,» Carr said.
DAVID N. DINKINS BUILDING — Mayor Bill de Blasio renamed the Municipal Building at 1 Centre St. after the city's first black mayor, David Dinkins, Thursday saying the city doesn't appreciate all that the 106th mayor accomplished during his time in office.
He added, «Steiner is doing the mayor no favor here in the composition for the advisory panel on Cathie Black.»
Speaking on WOR, Paterson called Steiner's suggestion that the mayor appoint an educator to be Black's No. 2 «very fair,» adding: «I think she would have done this anyway.»
A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.
Blacks continue to be the mayor's strongest supporters with 71 percent giving a favorable approval rating versus 12 percent who didn't.
The poll found that the approval ratings are split among racial and residential lines, with 69 percent of white voters approving of the job the mayor's doing, while only 52 percent of black voters and 56 percent of Hispanic voters responded positively.
On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.
The thousand - strong U.S. Conference of Mayors, headed by the black mayor of Sacramento, strongly backs charters, as do such prominent Democrats as California Gov. Jerry Brown, the new housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor Julian Castro, Denver's Michael Hancock, Philadelphia's Michael Nutter, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and the left - of - Hillary hope Martin O'Malley, Maryland's governor.
«Ten years as mayor, and Mike Bloomberg still doesn't get it,» a narrator says over black - and - white images of Bloomberg and clipped newspaper headlines.
«Twenty years ago, my dad did not know he was running for mayor and did not seek to marry a black woman to put on display,» Chiara told a crowd of reporters.