Sentences with phrase «black woman»

Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

So, if a Republican votes for a black woman to represent them in public office, it is a token.

Bland, a black woman, became widely known after she was arrested after being stopped for failing to signal a lane change in July 2015.

A tenant organization needs a spark plug, and Crestview had one in Laverne McClendon, a young black woman who provided the kind of interest, intelligence and follow - through that was required.»

Most Powerful: Hope E. Ferguson at Her.Meneutics with «Our Brother's Keepers: A Brokenhearted Black Woman Speaks Out»

The old newspaper clipping shows two families, one descended from a white man and a black woman and the other descended from two white people, with the text, «Interesting researches by the Carnegie Institute disprove the popular notion that a «pass - for - white» person married to a....

Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith by Monica Coleman (Releases July 1)

«how a black woman in the third millennium could possibly have the audacity to think for herself instead of letting them tell her how she should think.»

What difference does it make if you're a black woman Mormon Republican if you hold the same views and have the same tired things to say that every other politician in your party says?

A black woman vp this time around could rival hillary in the future.

How dare a Black woman not be a liberal Democrat?

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

Are you upset that she doesn't act or believe the way you think a black woman ought to act and believe?

The reporter is aghast that anyone could possibly be a black woman and LDS much less GOP.

Headed for a «gospel» singing workshop with a famous black woman from the United States.

Funny how liberals are completely at a loss about how a black woman in the third millennium could possibly have the audacity to think for herself instead of letting them tell her how she should think.

Certainly I will never forget some images: the black woman chained astraddle a stepladder with an apple in her mouth; the needle - nosed pliers coming toward a woman's nipple; whips used and sexual organs wielded like punishing tools, to «teach a lesson.»

Our highest literary honor last year went to a black woman, and for nearly a decade the most watched model family on television has also been black.

In other words, while a woman might claim discrimination on the basis of sex, and a black man might claim it on the basis of race, neither sex nor race alone could capture the discrimination endured by a black woman.

The old newspaper clipping shows two families, one descended from a white man and a black woman and the other descended from two white people, with the text, «Interesting researches by the Carnegie Institute disprove the popular notion that a «pass - for - white» person married to a pure white may have a negro child.»

Maybe, just maybe we could be seeing the future first Black WOMAN president?

The original article that provoked all of this was a racist article from an uppity black woman telling whites we shouldn't have our white santa.

My friend, Grace Biskie, wrote a powerful all - in essay about her experience as a black woman at STORY.

For Davis and Ali, they also broke individual records with Davis becoming the first black woman to win an Emmy, Oscar and Tony for acting and Ali becoming the first black Muslim to win an Oscar.

The Strong Black Woman actually developed as a defense against the negative stereotypes about African American women.

If you look at the other stereotypes of black womanhood — the manipulative Jezebel, the Mammy, the Sapphire — and put the Strong Black Woman beside it, you say, «Of course I want to be a Strong Black Woman.»

We don't need to be living into the Strong Black Woman to the extent that we used to live into it.»

Women can be educated so they can see Strong Black Woman; because once you see it, it's like, «Of course.

As long as these mothers continue to perform Strong Black Woman, people will love them, but if at any moment they were to break down and show the grief they feel, and the pain, and the trauma, and the tears, and the rage, they would cease to be our heroes.

Strong Black Woman Syndrome, something she saw regularly in her clinical practice, emerges out of the expectation that black women be «super capable, to take care of others, to be stoic — emotionally strong to the point of stoicism — and radically independent.»

What made it cringe - worthy for me was how much it fit into the Strong Black Woman trope.

That novel, a kind of «Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Woman,» depicts the process of a woman's coming to consciousness, finding her voice and developing the power to tell her story.

Also Cleopatra was also a Black woman

Out there on the back side of the track, God laid hands of affirmation on me through the grip of a suffering black woman.

She was an aging black woman, totally alone with her intense pain.

I remember being at a church in Virginia, and the only black woman was the maid of my friend's mother.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

While the flustered bailiff searched for her in the witness room and the halls, the ancient black woman, her countenance ruined by many cares, got up from the spectators» section of the courtroom, where she had been listening to all preceding testimony, and gravely made her way to the stand.

Prior to the show, Waithe built a resume marked by episodes of Fox's Bones and Netflix's Master of None (the latter earned her an Emmy, making her the first black woman to take home the award for comedy writing).

«We had a lesbian - partnered woman as interim, and now we have a [heterosexual] black woman pastor who is a wonderful minister to everyone here,» the lay leader said.

The black woman in this video is clearly a muslim herself, listen to how she says koran.

But on the other hand: Oklahoma recently lost a woman named Clara Looper, a black woman who for many years peacefully resisted white treatment of her people.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is the president Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a black woman, has struggled to enforce a change in diversity in film.

But, to have a successful black woman at the helm of one of the big four networks is a welcome sign.

I can not imagine how anyone really thinks there is some fat black woman sitting in the clouds running Earth (obviously if there was a god She would not be white, since that is such a minority in this world).

So if a socio - economically oppressed black woman complains to me that people are always attributing her behavior to her «uncivilized» social class, I'm tempted to respond by saying to her, «Are you sure you aren't overreacting?»

Rather than interacting with a single male father - figure, Mackenzie interacts with 1) Papa (a big black woman who represents God the Father), 2) Jesus (an ordinary - looking Jewish man who obviously represents Christ), and 3) Sarayu (an ethereal female presence who represents the Holy Spirit).

For me, living, praying, reading, writing and living Hebrew Bible as a black woman is no more problematic than being a black woman in the Americas.

I see it in the way people love the pictures I post of my daughter, but get really quiet when I start talking about the issues that will directly impact her as a black woman in this country.

Jackson, a 50 - something black woman, moved into «the projects» over a decade ago.