Sentences with phrase «first black mayor»

I wanted to celebrate local black heroes, the invisible people like the first black mayor of Camden, (a district of London).

Praising his mentor, former Mayor David Dinkins, for presiding over New York City with «profound decency,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that the city's first black mayor doesn't get nearly enough credit for his accomplishments.

He moved across the street to City Hall for his single term as the city's first black mayor.

Roberts would be the city's first black mayor.

«John Liu is the David Dinkins of politics right now,» Mr. Seabrook told Politicker in a recent interview, referring to the city's first black mayor.

David N. Dinkins became the first black mayor of New York City, and David A. Paterson became the state's first black governor.

But Mr. Rangel had unseated the first black congressman from New York, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in 1970 and in the years since, Harlem has produced the city's first black mayor, David N. Dinkins, and the state's first black governor, David A. Paterson.

«I guess I'm just lucky,» the city's first black mayor said at a Saturday celebration of his upcoming milestone.

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.

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.

Gyory compared it to the coalition that pushed Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, to run for elected office.

She would be the city's first black mayor.

He would have been the city's first black mayor.

DAVID N. DINKINS BUILDING — Mayor Bill de Blasio renamed the Municipal Building at 1 Centre St. after the city's first black mayor, David Dinkins, Thursday saying the city doesn't appreciate all that the 106th mayor accomplished during his time in office.

The city's first black mayor rode in on hope for reform.

The city's first black mayor received multiple standing ovations at the senator's event, held at the Langston Hughes Library, at 100 - 01 Northern Blvd. in Corona, last Thursday.

Former NYC Councilman and longshot mayoral candidate Sal Albanese just broke the sad news that legendary Democratic political consultant Bill Lynch, best known as the architect of the campaign that elected the Big Apple's first black mayor, David Dinkins, has died.

Not exact matches

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

If elected, James would be the first black woman mayor of New York City.

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.

Later this afternoon, former Mayor David Dinkins — the city's first and only black mayor — endorsed the mayor at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem.

Allegedly, Halloran accepted a $ 7,500 bribe from an informant to get his support for State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a Queens Democrat who rose to become the first black president of the State Senate, to enter the Republican primary for mayor, which Read more»

Perhaps most troubling for the mayor were the numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who form his base and whose support showed significant signs of erosion for the first time.

Four years later, the mayor replaced H. McCarthy Gipson, the city's first black police commissioner, with Derenda.

De Blasio becomes the first Democratic mayor of New York since David Dinkins, elected the city's first and only black leader in 1989.

Bertha Joseph, Brent's first Afro - Caribbean mayor, said she was joining the Conservatives after Labour failed to address crime in her area or increase the representation of black and ethnic minority Londoners in the council.

The first time Chirlane McCray stepped into City Hall, she was a 36 - year - old speech writer for then - Mayor David Dinkins — the city's first and only black mayor — in the early 1990s.

Earlier this week, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, the city's first and only black mayor, said he would back James if she were to run.

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.

At the time, Carrion wanted to be the city's first Latino mayor, and Thompson was gunning to be the second black mayor since David Dinkins.

The mayor and First Lady Chirlane McCray appeared on CNN's New Day where the mayor credited the Black Lives Matter movement with starting an important conversation.

Landrieu is white and a Democrat, the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father served in that capacity in the 1970s, but he was elected with overwhelming black support.

Hammons created the «African American Flag» in 1990, when David Dinkins was elected the first (and only, thus far) black mayor of New York City.

Many major American cities elected African - American mayors for the first time, and in 1972 Shirley Chisholm became the first black person and the first woman to run for the presidential nomination of a major party.

As these laws were repealed, the area evolved into one of the most affluent African American communities in the country, home to Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as the first (and only) black mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley (who stayed in Leimert Park for the first few years of his record twenty - year term), and filmmaker John Singleton, who inadvertently created the neighborhood's tagline when he dubbed it «the black Greenwich Village.»

Executed in 1990, African - American Flag corresponds with a pivotal moment in history, coinciding with Nelson Mandela's release from Robben Island and the election of David Dinkins as the first and only black mayor of New York City.