The subtext was the reputation, careers, and political power of
city black elected officials.
Not exact matches
Many of New York
City's
black elected officials came to cheer Ms. Clinton on.
Public Advocate Letitia James, the
city's highest - ranking
black elected official, said this afternoon she is «incredibly disappointed» that Philip Banks, the NYPD's chief of department and highest - ranked uniformed officer, abruptly resigned today.
When Eric Garner, a
black Staten Island man, died in July after police placed him in a chokehold, Ms. James — now the highest - ranked African - American
elected official in the
city — did not lead the charge of critics decrying the alleged police brutality.
Numerous groups and
elected officials have honored Roskoff, including the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights which won the fight for a
city gay rights law, PFLAG, the Stonewall Democrats, the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, the Village Independent Democrats, and the
city's
Black Lives Matter chapter.
A state supreme court has ruled against
elected officials and education advocates who argue that Cathleen
Black is not qualified to be the New York
City Schools Chancellor, and should not get a special waiver.
The celebration — which attracted more than 800 guests — included members of the de Blasio administration,
elected officials and
black community leaders in the
city.
«In New York
City, there's a whole lot of crap that goes on here that should not be happening in New York
City because we have way too many
black, brown, progressive
elected officials and so if they're allowing this stuff to continue... switch it out,» he said.
But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first
black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a
City Council seat in 2009.
Lewis said the Cuomo administration has «ignored
black and brown
elected officials, folks who reside in this
city and this state.
Trailing among African - American voters, independent Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh picked up the endorsement of one of the
city's most prominent
black elected officials: Common Councilor - At - Large Helen Hudson.
If she triumphs over a Republican in November, she would be the only
black elected official in the
city to represent a majority white district.
In the months since his comment about Stewart - Cousins, Loeb has been excoriated by prominent
black politicians and educators, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Bloomberg schools chancellor Dennis Walcott and many of the
city's
black elected officials.
A coalition of neighborhood activists and
elected officials has intensified its campaign to get the
city to remove a Central Park statue of Dr. James Marion Sims, a white Southern doctor who performed experimental surgeries on enslaved
black women.
In 1977, after two failed attempts, the Rev. Wendell Foster won the seat, becoming the borough's first
black city elected official.
«We had never had a locally
elected black official, a Democrat from a
city like D.C., asking for something like this before,» said Nina Shokraii Rees, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, which is implementing the program.
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