Sentences with phrase «by black activists»

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

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By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

A wide array of people have complained about being successfully targeted by this sort of attack, including a Black Lives Matter activist and the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission.

The second definition would be Black Lives Matters a decentralized movement that maintains its momentum by having local organizers and activists take on a clarion call to people in their own spaces.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

It is the emergence of this left, beginning with the black power activists led by Stokely Carmichael, that derailed the integration process and the authentic civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King — a movement which had fought for the idea of a single standard: one justice, indivisible, for all.

FRANCIS, dressed in Activist gear — black robes and a red sash around his head — is standing by the bar.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

In January, 2010 Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, a Pro-Life activist and a leader of the black community held a Pro-Life rally in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 371.

His recent biography of the black intellectual and activist Darcus Howe, co-written with Paul Field, is published by Bloomsbury.

A Black Lives Matter activist was acquitted in a brief court appearance by a judge who had ripped police witnesses for recalling events that were disproved by video.

Dressed in gray corporate attire to blend in with the businesswomen in the audience, the activists unfurled pink banners with «Stop Supporting the War» in black letters and briefly yelled the phrase at Clinton from the back of the room until they were hustled out by security guards.

The GOP plan also included money sought by the IDC for local groups, including $ 70,000 for The Black Institute founded by longtime activist Bertha Lewis, an IDC supporter.

At 3 p.m., community activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, the Bronx.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro smeared Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson by claiming he directed violence against a Baton Rouge police officer in 2016, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

The activist, with close ties to the Congressional Black Caucus and the Clinton campaign, cited several high - profile moves by Jeffries to defend Clinton in the face of attacks by Bernie Sanders as evidence of his newly emerged point man's role.

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

As directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, it's an attempt to both humanize and canonize the martyred activist.

The video, directed by Christopher Renz and Gerard Bush, also features Michael K. Williams and activist Van Jones, and samples excerpts of radio accounts of unarmed black youths being shot and killed by police.

This wasn't lost on its guests, with many marking the new era of awareness by wearing black, inviting activists to the red carpet, or making brutal, barbed comments about the film industry's disgraced men.

Sunday night's Bafta film awards will see Britain's biggest stars joined by activists on the red carpet, while many attendees will wear black in solidarity with Time's Up — the movement launched following the sexual harassment scandal which engulfed Hollywood after an avalanche of allegations were made against film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Between pre-show coverage rife with breathless anticipation for accessories women would wear with their black dresses, cutting off activists while asking after their more famous dates» nominations, and Debra Messing calling out the network for being embroiled in an equal - pay lawsuit while she was being interviewed by E!, the coverage was a general mess.

Financed by Significant, MNM Creative, MACRO, and Cinereach, the film follows a young black telemarketer who finds success in the business world, quickly rising through the ranks, just as his activist friends are rising up in tandem against unfair labor practices.

Seberg, the darling of the French New Wave era, became romantically and politically involved with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (to be played by Anthony Mackie) and became a target of the FBI for her part in the Black Power movement of the 1960s.

The 75th Golden Globes was a big night for symbolic, statement - making style on the red carpet, thanks to a parade of powerfully dressed women in an inky sea of black dresses, accessorized with Time's Up lapel pins and accompanied by female activists.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlBlack Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlblack neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

The final plan is based largely on a proposal aired in February by John A. Murphy, the superintendent of schools, but contains several revisions designed to ease the fears of some black parents and activists that the plan would...

A prominent civil rights activist known for his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, Jackson was invited by HGSE's Black Student Union to speak at an event entitled «Threads of Diversity,» a part of a larger campus - wide program honoring Black History Month.

The schools were part of an experiment in «community control,» an approach to school reform then favored by liberals and black activists.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

RADICALS II At the Brooklyn Museum in April, a smaller exhibition, «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85,» organized by the museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, came with work by more than 40 artist - activists and a dynamite sourcebook - style catalog.

Inspired by a quote from political activist and theorist Thomas Paine and featuring work by highly regarded American artists Radcliffe Bailey, Mark Bradford, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Adam Pendelton, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, and examples from the Black Panther Collection, the exhibition opens on Oct. 25.

This limited edition artist's book, designed by Olu Odukoya and published on the occasion of the exhibition Isaac Julien: «I dream a world» Looking for Langston at Victoria Miro (18 May — 29 July 2017), focuses on Isaac Julien's seminal work Looking for Langston (1989/2017), a lyrical exploration — and recreation — of the private world of poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes (1902 — 1967) and his fellow black artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s.

Additionally, the biennial has commissioned an expansive project by artist Barbara Kruger, whose signature red, black, and white activist text works will cover a skate park, school bus, and public billboard, with more activated sites and performances announced as the event gets under way.

Manuel de Falla / Stokely Carmichael brings together the score of a 1904 opera — La vida breve (Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

By the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, yet simultaneously, these methods came under increased scrutiny by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groupBy the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, yet simultaneously, these methods came under increased scrutiny by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groupby local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groups.

By the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, as its methods were increasingly questioned by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groupBy the mid-1970s, this program of demolition and reconstruction had transformed and modernized nearly one - third of the city, as its methods were increasingly questioned by local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groupby local social movements associated with civil rights and Black Power activist groups.

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

(Life is short) by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, which tells of a love affair doomed by social mores and class differences — and a 1967 speech delivered in Seattle by Stokely Carmichael, in which the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member argued that African Americans should not serve in the Vietnam War.

The Bowdoin College Museum Art (BCMA) will present a solo exhibition by New York - based «new media» artist R. Luke DuBois, featuring a new portrait commissioned by BCMA of Black Lives Matter and Campaign Zero activist DeRay Mckesson, who is also a current mayoral candidate in Baltimore as well as a Bowdoin College alumnus (class of 2007).

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist - activists — members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)-- in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum's controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.