Sentences with phrase «black politicians who»

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A left - leaning group is asking the state's top politicians to give back donations from a hedge fund manager who made racially charged comments against New York's only black female legislative leader.

Cuomo never uttered Paladino's name, engaging a rival just once — City Councilman Charles Barron, a black Brooklyn politician who created the third - party Freedom Party line to protest at the all - white Democratic ticket.

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

«You're talking about electing a Dominican and maybe kicking out the most powerful African American politician in America in the last 40 years,» said Larry English, 56, the former chair of Community Board 9 and long - time resident of West Harlem who is black and supports Espaillat.

RIP Helen Marshall, a longtime Queens politician and that borough's first black president, who died Friday at the age of 87.

Barron's interruption was criticized by some black politicians, even those who disagree with Cuomo.

Mr. Barron, who identifies as a Black Panther, is one of the most outspoken politicians in the city, especially on issues connected to communities of color.

Fresh faced, wearing metal - rimmed glasses and a silky black dress cinched at the waist, she resembles more a neighborhood volunteer than a politician — an identity born out of her upbringing in the Glen Oaks section of Eastern Queens, where she was raised by a father who was a labor organizer and a mother who was a tenant lawyer.

«Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black people and the poor.

Rangel, who is black, got the support of some Latino public officials and endorsements from politicians including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

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.

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mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The class discomfort is basically identical to the first movie; Vaughn caricatures politicians as cynical opportunists and the people who elect them as mindless mobs, while his camera bends down to lick the dirt off his posh old - money conspirators» black leather Oxfords.

KW: Aspiring actor Tommy Russell asks, as a black man who is also a very public figure, do you think black male celebrities, entertainers, sports figures and politicians get treated more harshly for their transgressions and mistakes than others?

But given that there are black school leaders and politicians who have been willing to oversee educational abuse and neglect of children who share their same skin color, Jackson, Noguera and Browne Dianis are keeping, well, bad company.

In Philadelphia, what is most vexing are the politicians who have, or whose children have, attended magnet and criteria - based schools — schools that have historically been closed to most black children, have fewer children in poverty than the city's average, fewer students with special needs or ELL support, and who screen entry of its students studiously, and vigilantly.

Those who strongly oppose vouchers — especially black politicians and policy influencers — are usually the same people who wouldn't sacrifice their own children for the good of the poor.

The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a 70s television show, featured a politician who had the ability to morph into a huge black Rottweiler, complete with a giant pentagram around it's massive neck and an omnipresent, fang - bearing scowl.