Sentences with phrase «civil rights icon»

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Walker clerked for the Honorable U.W. Clemon, the first black Federal Judge in the State of Alabama and a civil rights icon.

In 2013, she published Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview with Amazon, and she is currently working on a book on the Civil Rights icon Nina Simone.

Featuring portraits of subjects ranging from civil rights icon Malcolm X to staunch segregationist George Wallace, as well as powerful politicians, ordinary citizens, young idealists and elderly pacifists, the photographs question how Americans understand race relations, their own identities and the identities and civil rights of others.

Others receiving a ceremonial plaque included civil rights icon Viola Desmond, soon to be represented on the $ 10 bill, as well as athlete Donovan Bailey, singer Stompin» Tom Connors, Academy Award - winning actress Anna Paquin, environmentalist David Suzuki, and the country itself, to mark Canada 150.

Discover the phenomenal graphic novel memoir by US Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis!

If that is not enough, perhaps civil rights icon James Meredith's most recent comments criticizing these same intellectually and morally bankrupt practices will finally put this myth to bed.

Directly behind his desk chair hangs an image of civil rights icon Rosa Parks on a bus.

As civil rights icon Julian Bond said, «Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years» worth of education.»

In the feature, Washington stars as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is upended after his mentor, a civil rights icon, dies.

Dozens of Democrats, including civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, will not be attending Donald Trump's inauguration.

Denzel Washington stars as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is upended when his mentor, a civil rights icon, dies.

Among the remains inhumed in the cemetery are those of teenage civil rights icon Emmett Till (whose 1955 murder helped spark the civil rights movement) and blues singer Dinah Washington.

He also told reporters that he has «tremendous» respect for civil rights icon John Lewis, a Georgia congressman.

A growing group of Democratic lawmakers will boycott President - elect Donald Trump's inauguration Friday to protest what they described as his alarming and divisive policies, foreign interference in his election and his criticism of civil rights icon...

Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon, with Public Advocate James, who presented his award from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.

A civil rights icon and a Caribbean politician who tangled with President Donald Trump are addressing graduates at Boston University's commencement.

Rep. Chris Collins, a staunch Trump supporter, injected himself into the feud between the president - elect and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, Democratic congressman and civil rights icon — should be compared to a «spoiled child» after casting doubt that Trump had legitimately won the White House.

Trump lashed out at Rep. John Lewis on Saturday after the civil rights icon said he doesn't view Trump as a «legitimate president.»

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis and New York Congressman John Katko were among the dozens who shared their memories of Slaughter.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement «it's extraordinary that Harriet Tubman, a civil rights icon and New Yorker, will get her rightful place on the $ 20 bill so that future generations of Americans will learn her story and the integral role she played during a painful time in our nation's history»

Harlem is the core of the district and the neighborhood has only been represented in Congress by two elected officials — Rangel and civil rights icon Adam Clayton Powell Jr. — since 1945.

It started with the December death of Percy Sutton, a civil rights icon and former Manhattan borough president who was a member of Harlem's vaunted Gang of Four.

She refused to comment on US president - elect Donald Trump, who met King's eldest son in New York on the US holiday honouring the slain civil rights icon.

It was previously announced that his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be among those delivering a eulogy, along with civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

It started off with a young swimming star coming out, and ended up with an old civil rights icon reaching the end of his life.

Civil rights icon and congressional colleague John Lewis will also speak at the service.

The now - deleted Instagram post commemorated the civil rights icon's assassination with her restaurant's Wednesday special

Today's inauguration itself also put that creed into practice, featuring a black president, a white vice-president, a gay poet, a Hispanic female justice, a Cuban - American priest, and the first woman to ever deliver an inaugural prayer: civil rights icon Myrlie Evers - Williams.

Myrlie Evers - Williams, widow of civil rights icon Medgar Evers, will be the first woman to deliver the invocation.

The rapper and civil rights icon have reportedly since made amends — and it's hard not to feel as though Jay - Z has ultimately taken Belafonte's criticisms to heart.

The 30 - page manuscript assessed the plight of African - Americans in the United States while specifically reflecting upon the assassinations of three civil rights icons: Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..

Published in 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, the book documented civil rights icons, intellectuals, everyday Americans, and pop icons.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González and civil - rights activist and organized - labor icon Dolores Huerta are among those being celebrated at the annual Diversity Honors on Friday, April 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...

Will Davis Campbell, who died earlier this month at age 88, was one of the last surviving icons of the civil rights movement.

Georgia Rep. John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, urged an audience in New York to get into «good trouble, necessary trouble» in order to fight racism, hatred and bigotry, and said that he plans to «to continue to speak out and speak up.»

When Hillary Clinton delivers the commencement address at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn tomorrow, she'll be stopping by a City University of New York school named in honor of a major civil - rights icon.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio joined a 20 - block march in Harlem on Monday to demand a $ 15 minimum wage following a Martin Luther King Jr. tribute at which the governor described the civil - rights icon as «a man of action.»

The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.

His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.

The project traces Bridges» construction as an icon of the civil rights movement, unearths an institutional history of Frantz Elementary, and investigates how Akili navigates the history of its home today.

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.

How the intellectual and activist Angela Davis became an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement, and simultaneously one of the most - wanted criminals.

A posthumous icon of the Civil Rights Movement, his image — and this painting — now reads as totally pertinent in the context of Black Lives Matter.

The Rivertown Kids Chorus sings with folk icon Pete Seeger about civil rights, social justice, cleaning up the Hudson River, global warming and the power of one person to create community and make great changes in the world.

Defense verdict on behalf of a major movie studio in a 1st Amendment / false light claim brought by a Civil Rights era icon

In Washington, a teenager drew parallels with the civil rights marches of the past, relishing that he was literally following in the footsteps of icons such as King.