Sentences with phrase «elected black president»

It follows the young Madiba from his childhood, being brought up in a rural village, all the way up to his inauguration as the first democratically elected black president of South Africa — with an account of his much - publicised 27 years in prison in between.

«That's why I'm so proud of the nation that we were able to continue to move in the right direction and elect a black president.»

Because Martin Luther King said, «I have a dream», the United States is about to cast off it's last vestiges of racism, elect a black President, and become a light unto the world, leading it to world peace and safety.

Not exact matches

The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President - elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, is likely to rehash racially charged allegations that derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black - voter intimidation under the Reagan administration.

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

After all, we elected a president who sat and listened to a Black Liberation Theologist spew hatred and anger for 20 years.

Dems: Going from a nation that owned slaves to electing the first black president in a short time.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

They can't stand that a Black American was elected President of the United States.

... I guess it might be like Chad saying, «I disagree with almost every one of President Obama's policies, but I sure am glad we elected a black Christian.»

As a middle - class white man, I have no right to tell a black man how he should or should not feel under the authority of President - elect Donald Trump.

and BTW the President is not the first black man elected to that office... Obama is a Mixed Race individual

He had been widely viewed as a company man, a product of Bernardin's Chicago machine of church politics, who was, at least in part, elected president, it was said sotto voce, because it would look good to have a black man in that very public post.

They only crept out of the shadows since a black man was elected president.

Religion News Service: Black Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African - American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astoniBlack Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African - American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astoniblack SBC president With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African - American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astoniblack congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astonished.

Latter - day saints revere the founding fathers and believe this country is guided by God... until a black man is elected president.

And when we elect a black man as president the blacks and latinos will rise up and the world will end...

CNN: Southern Baptists elect first black president More than 160 years after its founding as a pro-slavery church, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday elected a black pastor for the first time to lead the denomination.

I was so thrilled to see a black man elected President, demonstrating that many racial barriers have been overcome.

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

Using this «one nation» rhetoric, Clinton was hoping to move forward on the country's extraordinary success in electing its first black President in 2008, offering the electorate an opportunity to reach yet another milestone: to elect its first female President.

Does he think he can get elected running as America's THIRD black president (Clinton was the first, then Obama)?

The former president and CEO of the Black Equity Alliance has been a candidate on numerous occasions, but has never held elected office higher than district leader (this is added, thanks to a reader's input).

Trump's company pulled out of a proposed $ 250 - million tower project in the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi, the latest effort by the president - elect to defuse charges that his global businesses will cause conflicts of interest once he enters the White House.

Ms. James, the first black woman elected to citywide office, is a natural candidate for City Hall someday — though her historically close relationship with de Blasio makes her less likely to challenge him directly in a primary than some of the other candidates bandied about, like Comptroller Scott Stringer or Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

The Empire State wants to see its scion Gov. Andrew Cuomo do battle with its black sheep, President - elect Donald Trump, just about everywhere except the campaign trail, a new survey by Quinnipiac University shows.

Flagbearer of the People's National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has described the use of Ghana's oil revenue by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on the senior national team, the Black Stars as unwise, saying he will use Ghana's oil revenue more judiciously should he be elected President.

Almost every elected official from New York, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr., State Assemblymen Marcos Crespo and Luis Sepulveda, and many, many others — Black, Hispanic and White legislators — who have traveled to Puerto Rico to join Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla in this March.

Remember, Obama's 2008 bid was never explicitly about electing the first black president — he avoided mentioning race at all except under duress — it was about «Hope» and «Change.»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who in 2015 became the first black legislator to head the chamber, said before Obama's election in 2008, he didn't know if he'd ever see a black person elected as president in his lifetime.

There has been no shortage of films about the life of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black, democratically elected president.

When Barack Obama was elected president, observers at the time noted that he could serve as an inspiration for millions of black students.

That your editor is being unreasonable in my critique that DeVos is unlikely to be able to strongly defend the futures of children black and brown because the President - Elect, along with incoming senior adviser Steve Bannon and Attorney General appointee Jeff Sessions have long, documented records of racism, anti-Semitism, and nativist sentiment.

Some historical developments of the NEA throughout history included welcoming black members four years before the Civil War, electing a woman as president before women even had the right to vote, and merging with the American Teachers Association in 1966.

Peggy Coyne, a Black Hawk Middle School reading specialist and president - elect of Madison Teachers Inc., said she plans to ask students to write journal entries Tuesday about what they did while classes were canceled the last four days.

It was during the Miami meeting, the superintendents formally organized the National Alliance of Black School Superintendents (NABSS)- Dr. Russell Jackson was elected President.

In a strongly worded letter to Superintendent Beth Schiavino - Narvaez, NAACP branch President Imam Abdul - Shahid Muhammad Ansari wrote that recommendations to close schools named for Martin Luther King, former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, civil rights pioneer Frank T. Simpson and John C. Clark Jr., the first African - American elected to public office in Hartford, represent a «total disregard for Black and Latino culture and heritage» and are part of a larger pattern of neglect toward neighborhood schools.

Late last year, after Donald Trump was elected President, Badlands Unlimited — the publishing house founded by the artist Paul Chan, which defies all labels except subversive and kickass — printed a poster with six incantatory stanzas of black - and - white text.

It's not didactic, but it has very specific references: the Klan or the White House or Shirley Chisholm» — the first black woman elected to Congress and first black politician to run for president.

An early example is President Elect (1961, Pompidou Centre, Paris), in which the tanned face of John F. Kennedy is combined with unrelated images as if the whole thing was a black - and - white photograph.

Actually, David Appell, getting elected as the US's first black president was (IMO) one of the few worthwhile things he did.

She began the blog on the very day a black lawyer was elected president of the United States, writing at the time:

He was elected as the Board Chairman of the Internationally Renowned Tallahassee Boys Choir, and is the Past President of the National Florida State University Black Alumni Association.