Sentences with phrase «first black member»

He was Ontario's first black lieutenant - governor and the first black member of Parliament.

In 1923, he became the first African American member of AIA, and later the first black member to be inducted into AIA's College of Fellows (1957).

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror.

Powell also noted his long - standing history with the district (albeit in a different, pre-redistricting configuration), pointing out his father, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., created the seat and served as New York's first black member of Congress from 1944 - 1970 — the year he was ousted by Rangel.

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.

Jónsdóttir was first elected to Iceland's 63 - seat Parliament in 2009 as a member of the Citizens» Movement Party, but when she ran for — and won — her seat again in 2012, she did so under the Pirates» black flag.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

First, there are many black neighborhood watch members throughout our country and to think otherwise is pretty damn racist.

The first line is a reference to the church's practice of denying lay priesthood to black male members until 1978.

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of First Things, and his essay «Black Dignity and the Common Good» appeared in our issue of June / July 1990.

Yes, I mean actual knitting — yarn, needles, piles of knitting pattern books based on literary heroines, fibre strands clinging to my black clothes, first - name - basis with the local yarn shop, Ravelry member kind of knitter.

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

The couple and all the black members should leave this racist First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

To this end each black church can do three things: (1) acquire the techniques and use its resources to build up in the homes of its members a sense of the value of knowledge; (2) develop learning opportunities in the church; (3) underwrite financially first - class departments of religion in black colleges (or at least in one such college).

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

Additionally, Eric Black, who joined the club last summer, remains a key member of the set - up, as Senior First Team Coach.

Ingredients: 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (1 turn of the pan) 1 medium onion, finely chopped 3 cups canned vegetable stock, found on soup aisle (I use a few cups of water and a few teaspoons of vegetarian chicken base here) 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice (I blend it first so that it's not chunky, since a few family members don't like tomatoes) 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed 2 (15 ounce) cans pumpkin puree (avoid buying Libby — it's owned by Nestle) 1 cup corn, frozen or canned (drain and rinse if canned) 1 cup heavy cream (I use 1 % milk, but you can use soy milk as well) 1 tablespoon curry powder 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (I don't add this since my kids don't do spicy foods) coarse salt 20 sprigs fresh chives, chopped or snipped, for garnish

Rob Black, a member of Nestlé's CSV committee, spoke at its Global Forum on the importance of the First 1000 Days from conception.

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.

Backers say Gregory has the capacity to make news as Suffolk's legislative leader, and would be the first black House member from a majority - Long Island district.

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

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

Peter Black is the current South Wales West Assembly Member, having served since the Assembly's first election in 1999.

Last month, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers, began paying the first installments of $ 12.7 million in back pay to hundreds of black and Hispanic members in a partial settlement of a bias lawsuit decades old — the oldest such case in the hands of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

St. John is a former Albany Common Council member (trivia: when he was elected in November 1989, he became the first openly gay black person to hold public office in the US).

She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington at the 1987 general election, when she became the first black woman to hold a seat in the House of Commons.

The very first Private Member's Bill under the Assembly's new powers will this week become a reality if Assembly Members choose to vote through Peter Black AM's Mobile Homes Bill when it comes before them for its final stages on Wednesday.

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.

Adler is looking into allegations that City Council member Debi Rose, who was backed by the WFP, received improper support from the party's for - profit campaign arm, Data and Field Services, during the 2009 election that made her the council's first black lawmaker from Staten Island.

During their first placement, fellows gain invaluable experience as they assist in the development of legislative and public policy initiatives within Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member offices.

Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas in Austin, US, who is not a member of the team, says it is still not known whether middleweight black holes form in globular clusters in the first place.

This faculty member informed me that since I would be the first Black to come to their department, I had to be the best minority they could find.

That's because the debris falling into the black hole at first overshoots it, zinging back out in an elliptical orbit and colliding with incoming pieces, study team members said.

As part of the University of Oklahoma's Multi-Cultural Engineering Program, Simmons joined a close - knit group of students and admired faculty member Pamela McCauley - Bell, a former welfare recipient and teen mother who earned a PhD in engineering — the first black woman in Oklahoma to do so.

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