Sentences with phrase «head of black leaders»

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In the year 1959, Elijah Muhammed, the leader of the Black Muslim Movement and the self - styled spiritual head of Muslims in the west, opposed King's directions and philosophy.

Creating coveted custom - made gentlemen's attire for all occasions, the Professional Clothiers of Astor & Black serve high - profile celebrities, heads of state, professional athletes and style leaders throughout the world.

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).

After Mr Mahama had congratulated Nana Akufo - Addo for emerging the winner in the 2016 election, some renowned world leaders and heads of some multinational organisations including the President of the world bank, Barbara Pedmore of the Black Reconstruction Group, Barack Obama among others, commended him for his humility and display of maturity and predicted that - based on his achievements within his four years in office, how he carried himself on the global stage, Ghanaians will soon crave for his return.

Charlie King, the Mercury Public Affairs lobbyist and former head of the state Democratic Party, is planning another one - man protest, this time targeting new U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his lack of black staffers.

Next week, Schumer's office said, the minority leader will announce the hiring of a Director of Engagement to lead the diversity initiative — Cietta Kiandoli, former head of the Black Civic Engagement Fund.

The newly discovered black hole is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the opposite part of the sky from the Coma Cluster in a relative desert, said the leader of the discovery team, Chung - Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive.

After BAEO and NAPCS released their signed letter from over 160 Black educational leaders, I had the chance to hop on the phone with a few of the signees — Cheryl Henderson Brown, founding president and CEO of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and daughter of plaintiff Oliver Brown of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case, Sekou Biddle, UNCF's vice president of advocacy, and Steve Perry, founder and head of schools of Capital Preparatory Schools.

But Clark worries that stand - alone schools that aren't part of a larger network and that are headed by black leaders, tend to get short shrift when it comes to funding and support.

Then head south along the lake to try warmer - climate reds, which are the focus of both the irreverent up - and - comer Church & State Wines (tastings $ 7 per person) and the regional leader Black Hills Estate Winery (tastings $ 10 per person), which occupies an airy, glass - walled space with sweeping views of the valley.

Still Ms. Golden's connection to Harlem, where she also lives, is visibly strong; she can regularly be seen chatting with street vendors; eating branzino with her board chairman, the financier Raymond J. McGuire, at Vinatería; and convening the heads of the Dance Theater of Harlem and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at Red Rooster to welcome a new cultural leader to the neighborhood.

said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

Dallas Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, part of the It Takes Roots delegation said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»