Sentences with phrase «first black police»

The first black police officer of Atlanta, many retired Spelman and Morehouse professors, etc..

For instance, I recently finished reading the absolutely stunning novel Darktown by Thomas Mullen, a fictional account of the first black police officers to patrol Atlanta in 1948.

Mullen talked with BookPage about the first black police officers, writing outside your race and more during his visit to the 2016 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville.

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

Not exact matches

the first disciplinarian of the black youth is the police officer.

The lack of parenting skills means, far to often the first disciplinarian for black youth is the Police Officer.

This has to be a first: A black man in Canada was pulled over because police were called on him for reading a book.

The primary claim he makes in the first paragraph is that «Las Vegas police officers singled me out and pointed their guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.»

Two black men whose arrests at a Starbucks in Philadelphia led to protests and plans for bias training at thousands of the chain's locations spoke about the ordeal for the first time, saying they were not told by the police why they were being escorted out.

NEW YORK CITY — Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton said Eric Garner was «choked to death» by police during her first major policy speech at Columbia University where she called for a dramatic shift in the way the nation's criminal justice system treats black men.

Mixed race suspects were more likely to be sent to court than given a police disposal; Black and mixed race defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody prior to their hearing date; Black defendants had a higher chance of being acquitted than white ones, suggesting that different standards of evidence may be applied to cases involving different groups of defendants; Mixed race teenagers were more likely than others to be given a (more serious) community sentence than a (less onerous) first tier penalty or referral order.

Mr. Banks, who is also black, was set to be named the police department's first deputy commissioner — number two under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton — but shocked Mr. Bratton and City Hall when he announced his resignation police department's first deputy commissioner — number two under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton — but shocked Mr. Bratton and City Hall when he announced his resignation Police Commissioner Bill Bratton — but shocked Mr. Bratton and City Hall when he announced his resignation today.

It's not the first unexpected thing to crop up for City Hall in Mr. de Blasio's inaugural year, nor is it unrelated to another unforeseen circumstance: the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, as police tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.

In one of her first major speeches as a presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today called for sweeping criminal justice reforms in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police custody — most recently in Baltimore, plunging the city into days of unrest.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who unsuccessfully sought an indictment last year against a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, expressed pity for the grand jury involved in the case in his first radio interview since becoming the official GOP nominee to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm.

The trend is less common on the other side of Although not the first work of black British history, its impact spread further than most, in part because its publication came at a crucial moment, three years after a wave of riots sparked by hostile policing set ablaze black neighbourhoods of London, Bristol and Liverpool.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature was presented to: Monsters and Men (Director & Screenwriter: Reinaldo Marcus Green, Producers: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Josh Penn, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Luca Borghese)-- This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man.

Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.

Ron (John David Washington) was the first black officer at the Colorado Springs Police Department.

The actress, 60, won her first Academy Award more than 20 years ago for her role as the pregnant police chief in the Coen brothers» black comedy «Fargo» and currently stands one Grammy shy of EGOT status.

Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua has signed a new first look deal with Sony Pictures, which will get underway with the Denzel Washington sequel The Equalizer 2, followed by an adaptation of Jeffrey Haas» book The Assassination Of Fred Hampton: How The FBI And The Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther.

He soon learns about his abilities through expressive trial and error, in other words beating down local law enforcement in Italy, upending police cars in Paris, and taking down other assassins from Operation Treadstone, the black ops team which trained Bourne in the first place.

The first to be loaded by angry, black - uniformed police are an Egyptian - American journalist for the AP and the freelance photographer working with him.

Behind the camera is director Ryan Coogler, a black filmmaker who first burst onto the scene with Fruitvale Station, a film about the day in the life of a victim of a police shooting.

Dodging street skirmishes, lead singer Larry (Algee Smith) finds himself at the Algiers Motel — first partying, then sweating out the night — with an impulsive cop - baiting provocateur (Jason Mitchell, a live wire), two scared white women from Ohio, a wary black security guard (John Boyega in a performance of Denzel - like dignity) and, terrifyingly, a loose cannon from Detroit's police force (Will Poulter, burning with rage).

The car is one of the first GT500's ever produced by Shelby American, and everything is original: its Nightmist Blue exterior paint color, black interior, 428 Police Interceptor engine, dual four - barrel carburetor, wheels, tires, and drivetrain.

After this she moved to the Minneapolis Tribune as the first woman police reporter and later as the reporter responsible for covering social change during which she wrote about «militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.»

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.

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

He discussed his views on police killing black men; announced his first presentation in Washington, D.C., a 360 - degree mural at the Hirshhorn Museum set to debut in November 2016; and revealed what inspires him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.

This figure, posed by Marshall in a canny art historical riff on Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Jean - Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies (1797), calls to mind the shock of Ellison's protagonist when he leaves the South and comes to New York for the first time, where he encounters a black police officer in Harlem calmly directing traffic, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

First unveiled at Art Basel Miami Beach, this charcoal drawing depicts the Ferguson, Missouri, police force in riot gear during a protest over the killing of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

Autoportrait (2017)-- the sole work in Luke Willis Thompson's first solo exhibition in the UK, on view through August 27 at London's Chisenhale Gallery — focuses on a black subject afflicted by police violence.

Following the Watts riots in 1965, soon - to - be Los Angeles police chief Darryl Gates created the country's first special weapons and tactics force, quickly using it in high - profile confrontations against radical groups like the Black Panthers and Symbionese Liberation Army — with the media in tow.

As first spotted by Android Police, Best Buy has posted four listings for the Essential phone (PH - 1), two each for the Sprint version (black and white) and the unlocked version (black and white).

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