Sentences with phrase «first by a black woman»

In 1972, at the age of eighty, she had a retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art — the first by a black woman artist there.

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Prior to the show, Waithe built a resume marked by episodes of Fox's Bones and Netflix's Master of None (the latter earned her an Emmy, making her the first black woman to take home the award for comedy writing).

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.

Putting to rest a mystery that initially puzzled investigators, the New York City medical examiner's office ruled that the death of Sheila Abdus - Salaam, the first black woman to serve on New York State's highest court, was a suicide by drowning.

In a statement due to be released later today and first obtained by Capital Tonight, the caucus of Assembly and Senate lawmakers it's an «injustice» that Stewart - Cousins, the first black woman to lead a legislative conference in Albany, to not be included in the talks.

«If this arrangement was truly about helping minority communities, both the IDC and the Independence party would support a coalition government with the Democrats and help make a history by supporting the first black woman as a Senate President.»

«Many people say it — and I agree — that she was truly ahead of her time becoming the first woman and first black person to seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States, a precursor [to] what ultimately would be a successful run for president of the United States for President Barack Obama and certainly a forerunner for actually obtaining the Democratic nomination by Hillary Clinton,» Clarke added.

Although the first people affected by the epidemic were white gay men, today the virus is spreading fastest through the black population, and more women are infected than men.

If the state of Oklahoma goes through with the sentence, she will become the first black woman to be killed by the state in almost a half century.

As the lone African - American woman working at this law firm Robinson has had to work doubly hard in order to gain the respect she desires and she's not about to let the first charismatic, smooth - talking black guy convince her to undo all that hard work by going on a date with him.

Inspiring stories of brave men, women and children introduce us to Harry Washington, one of George Washington's slaves, who ran away from Mount Vernon and joined the British Army; to the first sit - in (a refusal to worship from the «black pews») at a Philadelphia church in 1786; and to Mound Bayou, Miss., an all - black town founded proudly by former slaves.

Disney's adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time will mark the first time black women have helmed a $ 100 million (# 72 million) film, with Gugu joined by Storm Reid and Oprah Winfrey.

In its story of an interracial couple, played by Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams, meeting the young woman's parents for the first time, «Get Out» shrewdly exploits fears and stereotypes of all kinds, familiar especially to those LWB (Living While Black).

It's basically a filmed play, and the drama itself is problematic (Tennessee Williams - lite), but oh what performances are given by Cher (in her first great screen role) as the no - nonsense waitress Sissy, Sandy Dennis as the delusional Mona and Karen Black as the mysterious Joanne who arrives halfway through the film and upends the lives of the women who used to know her as Joe.

Black Panther is among the first films by the house of Marvel Studios which predominantly has a black cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's alBlack Panther is among the first films by the house of Marvel Studios which predominantly has a black cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's alblack cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's allies.

On the brink of the first World War, The Ottoman Lieutenant tells the story of a strong - willed American woman (Hera Hilmar, Anna Karenina) who, frustrated by ongoing injustices at home, follows an American doctor (Josh Hartnett, Black Hawk Down) to a medical mission in the exotic Ottoman Empire.

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Disney will continue to break glass ceilings soon after Black Panther: On March 9, the studio will open the feature adaptation of the children's classic A Wrinkle In Time, which at a $ 100M - plus budget is the first production of its scope to be directed by a woman of color, Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay (at one point before Coogler, she was in talks to potentially direct Black Panther).

A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN putBlack Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN putblack directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

But the Harvey Weinstein jabs mostly stopped there — the night wasn't about the men who have been brought down by accusations of sexual misconduct, and no one encapsulated that better than Ms. Winfrey, who brought the often chatty and distracted crowd in the ballroom to rapt silence and even tears with her barnburner speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement — the first black woman to do so.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

The Time's Up initiative, unveiled on New Year's Day and signed on by 300 prominent Hollywood women, is designed to address gender inequity in the workplace and provide a legal defense fund for women who have suffered sexual harassment or assault, but its first big impact was seen at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, where virtually every woman attending wore black..

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«Lemon» was co-written by Bravo and Gelman, and receives a crucial sense of atmosphere and comedic timing from «Moonlight» editor Joi McMillion (who recently made history as the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar).

Meanwhile, Burton's currently got his eye on two scripts from screenwriter Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black): the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children adaptation and Pinocchio, a project co-written by Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller (with Robert Downey Jr. starring as Geppetto).

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The uneven second season of Aziz Ansari's show contained two perfect TV episodes, one of them, Thanksgiving, written by his co-star Waithe (for which she already made history, in June, as the first black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing).

The other nominees are Call Me by Your Name, a Best Picture contender written by Hollywood luminary James Ivory; Dee Rees and Virgil Williams's literary, astute Mudbound, which marks the first time a black woman has ever been nominated in this category; Aaron Sorkin's 10 - quips - per - minute poker drama Molly's Game; and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's The Disaster Artist.

The ceremony was hosted for the first time by Joanna Lumley at London's Royal Albert Hall, who wore black, like most of the women in attendance, to support the Time's Up movement — a welcome reminder that, while things in the BAFTA's winners camp may feel very familiar, change is still afoot.

February 2012 saw the theatrical release of Hammer's first ever feature ghost story The Woman In Black, directed by James Watkins, adapted by Jane Goldman from the book by Susan Hill, and starring Daniel Radcliffe.

The film is based on the Ransom Riggs novel and was adapted by Jane Goldman (Kingsman, X-Men First Class, Kick - Ass, The Woman In Black).

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

Repertoire (Alphabetical order by director) Du levande (You, the Living, Roy Andersson, 2007) En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson, 1970) Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor, Roy Andersson, 2000) Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974) Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria, Peter Fleischman, 1969) La faille (Weak Spot, Peter Fleischman, 1975) Proverka na Dorogakh (Trial on the Road, Aleksei German, 1971) Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Aleksei German, 1984) La Verifica Incerta (Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello, 1965) Die linkshändige frau (The Left - Handed Woman, Peter Handke, 1978) Poison (Todd Haynes, 1990) Feng gui lai de ren (Boys from Fengkuei, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 1983) Jak zyc (How to Live, Marcel Lozinski, 1981) The savage eye (Ben Maddow / Sidney Meyers / Joseph Strick, 1960) Kundskabens træ (Tree of Knowledge, Nils Malmros, 1981) Drenge (Boys, Nils Malmros, 1977) Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (Visit or Memories and Confessions, Manoel de Oliveira, 1982/2015) De ofrivilliga (Involuntary, Ruben Östlund, 2008) Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda, 2015) La parmigiana (The Girl from Parma, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1963) Chroniques turcs (Turkish Shorts, Maurice Pialat, 1963) La gueule ouverte (Mouth Agape, Maurice Pialat, 1978) Passe ton bac d'abord (Graduate First, Maurice Pialat, 1978) La maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971) Silvia Prieto (Martin Rejtman, 1999) Entrenamiento Elemental para Actores (Elementary Training for Actors, Martin Rejtman, 2009) Rapado (Martin Rejtman, 1992) Trás - os - Montes (Antonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1976) Os Verdes Anos (The Green Years, Paulo Rochas, 1963) Sagro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi, 2013) Carriage trade (Warren Sonbert, 1968) Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht (Not Reconciled, Straub - Huillet, 1965) Idioterne (The Idiots, Lars von Trier, 1998) Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, 1976) Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1971) Summer in the City (Wim Wenders, 1970) Ich war neunzehn (I Was 19, Konrad Wolf, 1968) Ljudi (U Prolazu)(People (In Passing), Lordan Zafranović, 1967) Poslihe Podne (Puska)(Afternoon (The Gun), Lordan Zafranović, 1968) Crni film (Black Film, Želimir Žilnik, 1971)

The new year started with the announcement that Michelle King had been chosen by a unanimous vote of the school board to be LA Unified's next superintendent, the first black female ever to lead the district and the first woman since 1929.

This recently discovered manuscript, «The Bondwoman's Narrative,» is believed to be the first novel written by a female African American slave and possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere.

In 2004 Wangari Maathai became an internationally recognized figure by becoming the first black woman and the first environ - mentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstraction.

Soon artist and writer Errol Lloyd was exclaiming, «For the first time in Britain black women artists are exhibiting together», thanks to exhibitions curated by Zanzibar - born Lubaina Himid.

Organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, Magnetic Fields is the first U.S. exhibition to place abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another.

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The first was the establishment of the Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), a collective of over one hundred women of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.&rWomen Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), a collective of over one hundred women of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.&rwomen of color spearheaded by Simone Leigh, which «focuses on the interdependence of care and action... in order to highlight and renounce pervasive conditions of racism.»

First, Pindell — a black woman — publicly opposed a show at Artists Space in New York entitled, «The N **** R Drawings,» which featured charcoal drawings by a young, white, male artist named Donald Newman.

Best known for her vivid, rhinestone - studded pictures of black women, the artist is curating an exhibition of work by 14 of today's most critical voices in the visual arts, from Carrie Mae Weems and Deana Lawson (who designed Blood Orange's most recent album cover) to Hank Willis Thomas (founder of the first artist - run super PAC).

Magnetic Fields is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the formal and historical dialogue of abstraction by black women artists.

While not immune from racial tensions, the student Alma Stone Williams, an African - American woman, is considered by some to be the first black student to enroll in an all - white institution of higher education in the South during the Jim Crow era.

At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder of the city's Museum of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream of the building burning.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.