Sentences with phrase «first black president»

I'm pretty sure Obama is called first black President of the US by NYT, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, Reid, Pelosi, Biden, Matthews,...

Based on his autobiography, the film chronicles his life from childhood to his inauguration as South Africa's first black president in 1994.

CNN: Southern Baptists elect first black president More than 160 years after its founding as a pro-slavery church, the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday elected a black pastor for the first time to lead the denomination.

Peter Hain reviews Clint Eastwood's Invictus - a film that brilliantly portrays how the country's first black president used rugby to unify a fractured nation

It was, of course, an electrifying speech but more it was a moment of such excitement and hope that America's first black president ushered in a new era of liberalism in the best possible sense.

America's first black president resurrected his campaign slogan «Yes we can» for a valedictory address in Chicago.

Related: New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

First a black president of the US, and now Russia fighting to maintain religion.

I think there were some people in this country who thought that all was well because of the symbolism of our first black president.

Forbes insists it was not racist for Trump to have tried to delegitimize the first black president of America with spurious claims of his birthplace.

Robinson says it didn't take long for authorities to tell him the fire was an arson that had targeted the predominantly African American congregation in response to the election of the first black president.

He will go down in history, not only as the first Black President, but one of the greatest.

These Tea people were out there with their ridiculous hats, and calling the Democratic, liberal (moderate if you think about it), first black president a Nazi.

We, gave the chance to Barak Obama»cause I guess we thought we'd be doing the country a big favor by electing the first black president of the US.

Dems: Going from a nation that owned slaves to electing the first black president in a short time.

«I am ashamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.»

Historians may remember Obama as the nation's first black president, but he's also a religious pioneer.

The Mormons believe the Bible to be the word of God too!!!! J Del Gado said it right... He would be the first Mormon president just as Obama is the first black president.

Said Owen: «I am ashamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.»

Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Soweto on 8 May 8 1994, two days before Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black President

Not only did Bill Clinton, America's first black president, have to bide his time and eventually cede the spotlight to Barack Obama, America's second black president, but he was virtually forced after the election to hide from public view as a UN envoy.

It would be similar to me being willing to face torture and death for proclaiming that Barak Obama was not the first black president.

It's true that Obama is the first black president.

As Southern Baptists prepare to install their first black president, observers disagree on how much clout Fred Luter will have in a denomination closely identified with high - profile figures such as the newly reprimanded Richard Land.

«If you ever wonder whether change is possible in this country, I want you to think about that little black boy in the Oval Office of the White House touching the head of the first black president.»

I was happy to see our first black president.

I'm sorry, obama's puzzle pieces just never quite fit.,,,, Since I grew up in the 1960's I really had high hopes for our first black President, but obama is the most inept President in the history of the US.

The only heroic thing about him is that he is the first black president.

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.»

Day, many will celebrate — deservedly — the long way we've come from Dr. King's campaign for civil rights to the inauguration of our nation's first black president for his second term.

There's no way that they will stand by and let the first black President be a one - termer.

Mardecai Johnson was a graduate of the University of Chicago and the first black president of Howard University.

He then thought back to our previous president, playing a game black folks, progressives, and resistors play every so often, in a world where the current president feeds on and legitimizes white supremacy in an attempt to delegitimize America's first black president.

After serving 27 years, 18 of which were in the infamous Robben Island prison, Mandela was released when the ban on the ANC Party was lifted, becoming the country's first black president four years later.

(PAtrick's move was particularly interesting, since he is the country's only black governor and shares a political strategist, David Axelrod, with Obama, the country's first black president).

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.

Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the «first black president.»

«I can't tell you how thrilled I was when America got its first black President, obviously I'm not black myself, I'm Jewish, although I should say not observant, secular but respectful of all faiths, ha ha ha, still, shalom, how YOU doing, I LOVE your suit Mr Obama, oh bugger kill me now, God bless America!»

America's first black president can not and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.

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»

«It became a tipping point having our first black president, especially, leading a racial and gender justice initiative for boys and men — for us to say wait, with gender and race, how is it this time we're being made invisible, asked to wait?»

But will Obama's legacy go beyond his history defining election as America's first black President?

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama — setting out the philosophy of the man who would go on to become the first black president having come from relative obscurity, and the basis for a fundamental shift in the direction of the United States of America both at home and abroad.

It's hard to properly appreciate what is happening when you're in the thick of it and trying to double - source results, but dimly in the back of our minds we're aware that America just voted its first black president, and that today is a genuinely historic day.

«I was on urban issues before Obama came, before we had the first black president.

The message to Paterson not only represents the White House trying to heavily influence a top state race, but also is a case of the first black president pressuring New York's first black governor to step aside.

Pritzker, who was advising Blagojevich on filling the U.S. Senate seat held by Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, pitched the idea of picking Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, in part because it «covers you on the African - American thing.»