Sentences with phrase «black mayor with»

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Jesse Jackson, while still the leading Democratic politician in Chicago, chose to be silent during the public storm that broke after it was revealed that Cokely — then a high - salaried aide to the Democratic mayor — had accused Jewish doctors of injecting blacks with AIDS.

People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor - elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.

Bertha Lewis, a black activist with deep ties to de Blasio, is giving a civic award to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, raising eyebrows in political circles because Stringer is being mentioned as a possible challenger to the mayor's 2017 re-election.

Four years later, the mayor replaced H. McCarthy Gipson, the city's first black police commissioner, with Derenda.

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.

Mr. Thompson recently told Mr. Jeffries that he viewed the congressman as the strongest black candidate who could run against the mayor in 2017 — and one of only two Democrats, along with Scott M. Stringer, the current comptroller, able to mount a real challenge to Mr. de Blasio.

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.

In a Q poll this week, 72 percent of black voters said the mayor deserves re-election, compared with 23 percent of whites.

Whenever you doubt that think of my list above or this simple fact: NYC has stayed in the black for twelve years (even though the mayor claimed otherwise more than once just to keep us fiscally conservative) and unlike many cities with far less social programs, NYC never had to entertain bankruptcy (e.g., Detroit goes under with $ 18 billion debt but NYC thrives with a $ 24 billion budget for DOE alone).

And the mayor stayed long after he concluded his remarks, snaking through the dining room, shaking hands and taking photographs with every politician and guest who asked, before clambering into his black S.U.V. and driving off into the night.

But already some expressed skepticism with the plan, which comes as a blow to the mayor, who repeatedly insisted Black was qualified for the job.

But the mayor's poll numbers remain strong with his base of black, brown, and white liberal voters, and right now there is no plausible challenger to his left in 2017, when de Blasio is up for re-election.

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.

The mayor and First Lady Chirlane McCray appeared on CNN's New Day where the mayor credited the Black Lives Matter movement with starting an important conversation.

The mayor came with a proclamation declaring Feb. 16 «Black Parents Day,» honoring Coogler's mother and father, Ira and Joselyn, onstage.

Thorny (Chandrasekhar, Brooklyn 99), Mac (Steve Lem me, Quality Time), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske, Freeloaders), Foster (Paul Soter, Badlands of Kain) and Farva (Kevin Heffernan, The Goldbergs) accompany Captain O'Hagan (Brian Cox, Churchill) across the border, where they have run ins with Mounties (Tyler Labine, Voltron: Legendary Defender; Will Sasso, Another Period; and Hayes MacArthur, Angie Tribeca), meet hockey player - turned - mayor Guy Le Franc (Rob Lowe, Code Black), flirt with liaison Genevieve (Emmanneulle Chriqui, Shut Eye) and maybe find a criminal conspiracy to solve.

In New York City, the mayor is replacing one reform - minded outsider, Joel Klein, with another, Cathleen Black, despite strenuous union maneuvers to block the appointment.

Board member Phyllis Landrieu, who is white (and the aunt of U.S. senator Mary Landrieu and Louisiana lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu, who would lose a close race for mayor in the spring of 2006), proposed replacing acting district superintendent Ora Watson, who took over from Amato and is black, with Bill Roberti, who is the head of Alvarez & Marsal in New Orleans and white.

Landrieu is white and a Democrat, the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father served in that capacity in the 1970s, but he was elected with overwhelming black support.

The teachers union received some of its strongest support from African - Americans, with 76 percent of black voters backing the CTU and just 8 percent supporting the mayor.

But Lynch went ballistic, accusing de Blasio of throwing officers «under the bus» after the mayor, who is married to a black woman, commented immediately after the verdict that he advises his son, Dante (who is both black and white) to be careful when dealing with law enforcement.

Lynch and the PBA were already incensed at de Blasio over protracted negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, annoyed with the mayor's move to formally end a police practice called stop - and - frisk (which criminal justice reformers say has been used disproportionately and abusively against young black men), and looking to weaken him by convincing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by the legislature that would allow the PBA to all but stifle any efforts by the city to discipline corrupt and incompetent cops.

From 1977 to 1999, the number of black elected officials with influence over public education in cities (mayors, council members, school board members and superintendents) more than doubled, to 5,815 from 2,724

This work by British artist Chris Ofili, in which a black Virgin Mary is depicted adorned with real elephant dung, was at the centre of a major controversy in 1999 when New York's then - mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to cut funding to the Brooklyn Museum for exhibiting the painting.

Executed in 1990, African - American Flag corresponds with a pivotal moment in history, coinciding with Nelson Mandela's release from Robben Island and the election of David Dinkins as the first and only black mayor of New York City.

Because of Mr. Saatchi, Mr. Shonibare was included among the Young British Artists in the «Sensation» exhibition in 1997 — the show that, when it moved to the Brooklyn Museum, so provoked Rudolph W. Giuliani, the New York mayor, with a black Madonna adorned with elephant dung that he threatened to cut the museum's funds.