Sentences with phrase «first black african»

When Kofi Annan was named Secretary - General of the United Nations, the world knew him as a Ghanaian, the first black African to ever hold that title.

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But because of the home's historic background — it was built in 1906 by the famed architect Dudley S. Van Antwerp, and was home to Aubrey Lewis, the first African - American to be captain of a sports team at Notre Dame and one of the first black FBI agents — it can not be torn down.

Created in 1966, Black Panther is the first mainstream African American superhero.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

The convention elected an African as a vice-president for the first time, thus appointing a black «cardinal,» while white Americans among the vice-presidents were reduced to two out of five, an all - time low.

First, it was clear to me that black South Africans sharing their stories was crucial for their healing as individuals, and reclamation of their dignity as a people group.

@@@@ Sean p.OK none of your people came on a slave ships the blacks in America are Hebrew Isrealite the song kombiyah is Hebrew not African and you read Deuteronomy chapter 28:68 its talking about the transatlantic slave trade not the first physical real Egypt in north Africa look at Washington DC look at the Washington monument that is not European that's from first Egypt USA is second spiritual Egypt

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

Cone blended the racial pride of the black power movement with an emphasis on social justice that had been a part of the black church since enslaved Africans first read the Bible.

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a black religious movement known as Ethiopianism, with roots in the American - founded African Methodist Episcopal Church, represented one of the first organized expressions of black South African nationalism.

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.

His comments provoked demands by some black Southern Baptist leaders for censure of Land by the SBC; today many, including Fred Luter who is expected to become the denomination's first African American president this month, have accepted the apologies.

When Othello was first performed in 1603 or 1604, it was rare for slavery to be seen as an institution exclusively imposed by Europeans and Arabs upon black Africans, but this would soon change.

I first learned about Dr. Walker - Barnes when Christena Cleveland wrote a stirring response to her first book, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength, which examines the impact that the icon of the StrongBlackWoman has upon the health and well - being of African American women.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

Most have «African» features too, rather than the «white doll painted brown» look of the first black Barbies.

To evaluate the current status of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, we conducted PubMed searches in February 2011 using «breastfeeding» and «randomized trial» along with each of the following descriptors: Latina, Latino, Hispanic, black, African American, Asian, Native American, First Nation, Indian, minority, and low income.

Although Obama has always argued and projected himself as «an American who is black, not as a black American», he will always be defined through the prism of race, if only because he is America's first African - American president.

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.

The African - American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

The late Shirley Chisholm of New York — the first - ever black congresswoman and first woman and African - American to seek a major party presidential nomination — could become the second black woman to receive a full statue in the U.S. Capitol.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

Sports News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com The African U20 Championships will be played in Niger in 2019 Ghana's Black Satellites drew goalless in Algiers against Algeria on Friday in the first leg of the second round of the qualifiers for the 2019 African U20 Championships.

Pritzker, who was advising Blagojevich on filling the U.S. Senate seat held by Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, pitched the idea of picking Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, in part because it «covers you on the African - American thing.»

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

The second family, who arrived at the Black Star Square ahead of the First Family, got everyone talking and stealing a glance, especially Mrs. Bawumia's fashion sense - wearing an African print gown well sown to fit her curvy figure.

(You might recall that it was McCall who insisted there wouldn't be a racial issue if Cuomo primaried the state's first black governor, David Paterson, even as Rangel and other African American leaders were warning the AG not to go there).

At 6 p.m., Eric Adams, the first person of color to serve as Brooklyn's chief executive, will host his Black History Month celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall, where he will celebrate the legacy of the borough's African - American businesses, 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn.

He has already made two appointments: Jenny Rivera, a Latina and law professor, (replacing Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, his father's appointee and the first Hispanic judge on the court); and Sheila Abdus - Salaam, an associate justice in the appellate division, who is the first black woman to serve on the court, (she replaced the late Theodore Jones, an African - American appointee of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer).

In a pre-prepared address to the first Londoner Black Leader dinner, the former South African president said black leaders must act as role models to those who «scale the mountains with you&raBlack Leader dinner, the former South African president said black leaders must act as role models to those who «scale the mountains with you&rablack leaders must act as role models to those who «scale the mountains with you».

After eight years of the nation's first African - American president, black lawmakers were in for an adjustment no matter who won the White House.

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.

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.

«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.

When Obama visits Africa as the first black president of the United States, he deliberately ignores Nigeria; the biggest black African country and economy.

This was the first district to elect an African American — Boce W. Barlow Jr., a son of Southern black migrants to Connecticut during the era of the migration from south to north — to the Connecticut state Senate.

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.

Ghana's Black Satellites are scheduled to play Algeria in the first leg of a 2019 African Youth Championship qualifier.

And perhaps most damning of all, given whom the math dictated Israel would have needed in his column, Emanuel indicated that the nation's first black president was prepared to barnstorm through New York's black neighborhoods hand - in - hand with the junior senator, employing his appeal to African - Americans to a political degree he usually avoids.

«Cuomo is very sensitive to communities of color and African American communities specifically,» he said, referencing the 2002 racially - charged brouhaha surrounding Cuomo's first race for governor against former State Comptroller Carl McCall, who is black.

Lipton and others within the party, sources say, believe running someone who would likely launch a Democratic primary challenge against James, looking to become the first black woman elected to statewide office, could alienate African - American liberals the Working Families Party is trying to cultivate.

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.

After serving as Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, Sutton became an African - American broadcasting pioneer by purchasing radio stations WLIB and WBLS, launching the first radio chain aimed at black listeners, civil rights leader Al Sharpton said Sunday.

Historically, white voters have rarely had much influence on Harlem's House seat, which grew into a redoubt of black political might under control of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., New York City's first African - American to be elected to Congress, which lasted decades.

The Black Stars were the first African team to win the African Nations Cup, four times in 1963, 1975,...

While speaking on the floor, Barron said «it's time for a black speaker» and referred to the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm — the first African - American woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate for a major party nomination and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Black Stars held their first training session at the Cape Coast Stadium on Tuesday afternoon ahead of Sunday's last African qualifier for the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia.

«You poked so much fun at me for being blind, I forgot I was black,» Mr. Paterson, New York's first African - American governor, said on the TV program.