Sentences with phrase «first black female»

She attended Tennessee State University and was the first black female news anchor in the city.

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At the age of 80, Thomas's colored abstractions were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she was the first black female artist to be given a solo show.

In doing so, she has made history by being the first black female artist to ever win this coveted prize as well as being the eldest, since Tate removed the age limit this year.

In doing so, she has made history by being the first black female artist to ever win this coveted

In France, Benjamin Millepied is actively trying to push back against racial stereotyping in the ballet; meanwhile, in the United States, the recent rise of Misty Copeland as the first black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre has thrust this decades - old debate into the spotlight.

A'Lelia Walker (2018) captures the wealthy patron of the arts and daughter of one of the first black female millionaires in America, smiling quietly in a flowing kaftan and turban.

Ming Smith, who grew up in Columbus, was a member of New York's Kamoinge Workshop and the first black female photographer to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

These inductees are Carol Kalish (pioneering direct sales manager for Marvel Comics), and Jackie Ormes (first black female newspaper cartoonist, for the strip Dixie in Harlem featuring the character Torchy Brown).

The new year started with the announcement that Michelle King had been chosen by a unanimous vote of the school board to be LA Unified's next superintendent, the first black female ever to lead the district and the first woman since 1929.

Special activities commemorate the 50th anniversary of the College's enrollment in 1958 of UF's first black female student, Daphne Duval.

Oprah Winfrey won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday's Golden Globes, making history as the first black female recipient.

This weekend, Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish became the first black female stand - up comedian to host Saturday Night Live (previously Maya Rudolph hosted, but she was an improvisational comic and not a stand - up act).

But leave it to Oprah Winfrey — broadcasting mogul and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's first black female Cecil B. DeMille Award - winner — to crystalize this cultural moment into a moving and emotional speech that garnered multiple standing ovations from the audience and accolades across social media.

Kelly Fremon Craig helmed last year's delight The Edge of Seventeen while Ava DuVernay is the first black female to direct a $ 100 million movie with March's A Wrinkle in Time.

DuVernay confirmed with Essence that she won't be the first black female to direct a Marvel movie:

The duo is making a mark as Marvel's first black female authors, and it's a pairing that has us waiting with bated breath.

Working actors, take note: Davis had to start out in roles with few lines, steadily working her way up to named characters — and eventually, the first black female actor with three Oscar nods.

Her long journey eventually lead to her become NASA's first black female engineer.

Nina Simone wanted to become the first black female classical pianist to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Joi McMillon — Second black person to be nominated for Best Editing and the First Black Female to be nominated

However, there's still a way that future instalments can push female representation even further forward to the point where we might even see a woman don the mantle of Black Panther — thus becoming the first black female superhero to headline her own Marvel movie.

They weren't catching the wave of excitement Selma's mere presence brought to audiences — not because history was about to be made with the first black female director in the Oscar race, but because Selma was such a very good film, such a moving film, such a sensual, breathtaking, wholly original work that no one really knew what to do with it.

Besides being the first black female Ph.D. in her field and the founder of the National Human Genome Center at Howard, a historically black university, where was she coming from?

Briscoe, 55, one of Britain's first black female judges and author of Ugly memoir, has been bailed pending further inquiries

Potential successors include Lovely Warren, 40, the first black female mayor of Rochester whom New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, once almost selected as his lieutenant governor.

Stewart - Cousins, looking to become the Senate's first black female majority leader, defended Gianaris and said she will not be bullied into making a change no other leader is being asked to as part of «some high school drama.»

Love becomes first black female Republican elected to Congress.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).

I know Diane Abbot (who I respect as our first black female MP) and other senior feel it's racist whenever we talk about immigration — but do we honestly think closing down any discussion has led us to a good place in terms of race relations and tolerance and looking closer to home, how many senior Black or Asian people work in Labour HQ or in Team Corbyn?

Brooklyn Daily article on Bay Ridge, Coney Island, and Dyker Heights electing their first black female assembly member, featuring BP Adams.

She is regarded as the first black female self - made American millionaire.

Not exact matches

Abrams, who could become the country's first - ever black female governor, describes the realities of growing up in a working class household and providing financial support to numerous family members.

If elected, she would become the first - ever black female governor of any state.

Sponsors such as venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and marketing agency Ogilvy & Mather lent additional support, and in October 2012 digitalundivided hosted its first FOCUS100 conference, bringing together aspiring black female entrepreneurs, investors and tech thought leaders.

Following Thor: Ragnarok in 2017, we'll get a slate of brand new heroes, including Black Panther (starring Get On Up «s Chadwick Boseman as Marvel's first black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in Black Panther (starring Get On Up «s Chadwick Boseman as Marvel's first black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in 2018.

It doesn't matter how many people would deprive a black, female, Muslim, or gay American his or her opportunity to serve our country — to do so is wrong and a violation of the First Amendment.

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.

Leon said that, with God's blessing, we can see that all of us - «whether brown, black or white, male or female, first generation immigrant American or Daughter of the American Revolution, gay or straight, rich or poor» - are made in God's image.

with a quadruple - double in almost 25 years, as well as the first player (male or female) from a historically black university and the fourth woman overall to complete the feat.

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.

Lamont's campaign is certainly not lacking endorsements from prominent Democrats in the Elm City, including Toni Harp, New Haven's first female mayor and second black mayor.

«For almost all states, there's no precedent of having black female leadership, so it's not like you're immediately considered for the role and also the kingmakers... oftentimes are white men who are ensconced in politics who think of other white men first and foremost,» Greer continued.

Dinkins said the city has made strides, recalling that he was the first black mayor of the city — an achievement of which he said he «will always be very proud» — and that Quinn was the first female and the first openly LGBT speaker.

Patricia Scotland, Labour life peer since 1997, became the first female black QC, and the youngest since Pitt the Younger, at 35 in 1991.

«Over the past 30 years in the publishing industry, Ms. Black has played a critical rolebreaking through the glass ceiling — not once, not twice, but time and again,» the women wrote, noting Black is currently serving as the first female publisher of Hearst magazines.

The Time Warner Cable News blog «State of Politics» suggested Democrats could use the opportunity to appoint the first female speaker or a member of the black and Latino caucus.

Black will be the city's first female schools chancellor.

I am a black female looking for her first bisexual experience with another bisexual female.