Sentences with phrase «first african»

She said the state has «made a lot of gains» in the state Assembly with respect to representation of black women and pointed to the significance of Public Advocate Letitia James, the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position.

Not only is she making history as the first African American woman to serve in this role, she is one of our country's most accomplished and distinguished minds serving in law enforcement.»

Jackson became the GOP's first African American nominee for statewide office since 1988, overcoming six other hopefuls for the No. 2 spot on the ticket after four dramatic ballots lasting nearly 10 hours.

Heastie, the first African - American speaker in the Assembly's 237 year history, gave a brief speech to the chamber, where he focused on moving on from the scandal brought on the Assembly by his predecessor.

It was a fine plan, but for the better - established Democrat standing between him and the nomination: Carl McCall, the broadly (if not wildly) popular state comptroller who was running to become the state's first African - American governor.

Beckford is the suburb's first African American town board member.

145 years since Abraham Lincoln declared all people, regardless of race, to be free citizens and just 50 years since our country recognized that separate is never equal and segregation can never be tolerated, I am deeply humbled to have the privilege of being part of the process to formally elect the first African American President.

A film about the late Thurgood Marshall, the first African - American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, will be shot in Buffalo beginning next month.

Mr. Thompson, the first African - American district attorney for Brooklyn, faced outside pressure to secure an indictment in the Gurley case, though the soft - spoken district attorney said he would be unmoved by political forces.

Thompson, the first African - American to serve as Brooklyn District Attorney, was a progressive leader who cracked down on gun violence and stopped the prosecution of low - level marijuana arrests.

Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, the first African - American woman to be elected to city - wide office, agreed.

Michael D. Rodriguez, a Latino progressive from Commissioner Jesus «Chuy» Garcia's neighborhood and committeeman of the 22nd ward, was elected as executive vice chair of the Cook County Democratic Party; a post previously held by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who just rose as the first African - American and woman elected to lead the Democratic party in the county.

But his bid to be the state's first African - American governor faltered badly.

Abdus - Salaam was the first African - American woman appointed to the Court of Appeals.

Smith, 55, was named majority leader after the Democrats took control of the Senate in 2008, becoming the first African - American to hold the post.

Paulette Woods has lead a distinguished career in public service that began when she was hired by Erie County Executive Ed Rutkowski to serve in the Budget Division as a Senior Budget Examiner, the first African American to do so.

Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.

As the first African - American woman...

On the day of his elevation as the Assembly's first African - American speaker, Heastie (pronounced HAY - stee) said he is «a listener, and I like to build consensus.»

Heastie, who represents the 83rd A.D. in the northeast Bronx, was elected Speaker last February, and is the first African American to serve as Speaker of the New York State Assembly.

Paterson, elected lieutenant governor in 2006, became New York's first African - American governor when Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign the governorship after a prostitution scandal.

As the first African - American woman to hold citywide office, James unintentionally cleared the path for one of the white male candidates vying to become the next council speaker.

Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle said his heart «was filled with joy» to know that Tuesday would go down in history as the day the Assembly picked its first African - American speaker.

By a fluke of the calendar, the first African - American to be elected to the county legislature in almost 40 years, the Rev. Julius Collins, Democrat of Ellenville, was not in attendance when Black History Month was officially declared last week.

Elsewhere, Andrea Jenkins became the first African - American transgender woman elected to office, winning a seat on the Minneapolis City Council, as did trans man Phillipe Cunningham.

Newly - elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx, waves to the Assembly after his election at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. Heastie is the first African - American Speaker.

ALBANY — David Paterson, New York's 55th governor and the first African - American and legally blind person to hold that office, now has a permanent presence in the Capitol's Hall of...

It deals with being the first African - American first lady of New York.

He also recounted his dream of becoming the city's youngest mayor and first African - American mayor.

Despite the historic election of the Assembly's first African - American speaker, he was viewed with suspicion by critics of the capitol's checkered history of corruption.

The loss of Obama's former Senate seat, held in the interim by Roland Burris, would illustrate the drop in support for the president and his party in the two years since his election as the nation's first African - American leader.

Hassel - Thompson, who if elected would be the first African - American female Mayor of Mount Vernon, will face off against Democratic nominee Richard Thomas and Councilwoman Deborah Reynolds who will run on the Conservative Party line.

In 1929, Oscar Stanton de Priest became the first African American congressman since White.

Holland, if nominated by the Republican and Conservative parties, would be the first African - American Republican candidate for governor in New York history.

Shirley Chisholm became the first African American female member of Congress when she won a 1968 election in New York, while Andrew Young of Georgia became the first modern African American congressman from the South after he won election in 1972.

Carter, a Plainfield resident, was first elected freeholder in 2010 and became the first African - American woman to chair the freeholder board in 2013.

She will also become the first African - American woman to hold the permanent post.

In part due to backlash against the Bush administration, Barack Obama, seen by some as a liberal and progressive, [186] was elected to the presidency in 2008, the first African - American to hold the office.

Moss, the first African - American Republican to run statewide on the GOP ballot line, called the comment «eyebrow - raising in the extreme.»

«For me to have the opportunity to be elected as the first African - American Speaker, not only for me to make history and break that glass ceiling, but for it to be done during Black History Month, and then to follow behind that to give tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., was a day that I know that I will never forget,» he said.

I wondered why black voters who didn't turn out for the first African - American president in history were going to flood to the polls for Pryor, or how Pryor would do well enough with whites for the party's field program to matter.

NEW YORK CITY — Assemblyman Carl Heastie of The Bronx is quickly emerging as the front runner to replace embattled long - time Speaker Sheldon Silver, setting him up to become the first African - American to hold the role and the first new assembly leader in 21 years.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

Mr. Heastie, 47, became the first African - American speaker to lead the Assembly.

Key to that question — and to the last two primaries here — has been the changing demographics of the Congressional district, once home to a dominant African - American community that elected Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African - American member of the U.S. Congress, and then Rangel.

Spence, PEF's first African - American leader, struck a similarly cordial note: «We're not going to start out fighting with this governor,» he said.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino has announced that the Hon. Lois Taplin Bronz, the first woman and first African - American to chair Westchester County's Board of Legislators and a life - long champion for early childhood education, will be the top honoree at the 31st annual Westchester Senior Citizens Hall of Fame on Dec. 6.

He said as the first African - American speaker in state history, he's personally «embarrassed» that the law, which disproportionately affects black youths, still stands.

The movie will be a biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee charged Zeldin «recklessly calls the nation's first African - American president a racist.»