Sentences with phrase «first black police officer»

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.