Sentences with phrase «house negroes»

Malcolm X named his «house Negroes» in his 42 - minute, «Message to the Grassroots» in 1963.

I address some of Bob's points in an article on the website of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs: http://www.ccepa.ca/blog/?p=418 We should be free to call each other «house negroes,» fairly or unfairly, until the cows come home.

The same fight as before, the field vs the house Negroes.

Of course, defamatory or no, I'm hard pressed to have anything but the utmost contempt for people who use expressions like «house negro».

Perhaps in your circle, calling one another a «house negro» constitutes reasoned criticism and debate, although if so that would say much about the intellectual calibre of the St. Mary's Philosophy Department.

The post, which has now been removed from Rancourt's UofOWatch blog, was titled: «Did Professor Joanne St. Lewis act as Allan Rock's house negro?»

The post, which still remained up today, on Rancourt's UofOWatch blog is titled: «Did Professor Joanne St. Lewis act as Allan Rock's house negro?»

Joanne St. Lewis doesn't know why she became the target of Denis Rancourt's anger toward the University of Ottawa, but she's glad her name has been legally cleared from the stain of being labeled a «house negro» by her former colleague.

You claim that calling someone a «house negro» is not defamatory.

Whether a specific use of «house negro» is warranted by evidence or not is a matter each of us should be free to determine for ourselves (and we can argue among ourselves about it).

Calling someone a house negro may indeed be a move in reasoned criticism and debate, Bob.

When reached for comment, Rancourt says he intends to appeal the decision and sticks by his use of the term «house negro» that landed him in court.

University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis sued former Ottawa physics professor Denis Rancourt for $ 1 million for libel after he called her a «house negro» on his U of O Watch blog.

For more on this story, read the Law Times article «U of O law prof suing colleague over «house negro» remark.»

Not exact matches

With thirteen million Negroes in the United States denied privileges in housing, employment, education, recreation, medical care, and many other basic needs, this can hardly be called a democratic country.

In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

New York City Housing Authority Archives (LaGuardia Community College), Box # 071B5, Folder # 03; Folder Title: Folder Title: 590.17: MGMT POLICIES: RACIAL — NEGRO POPULATION STATISTICS; CORRESP.

As in Cane River, Tademy populates her tale with archival material from the period - letters, newspaper articles, photos of her ancestors and of historical sites such as the extraordinarily tactless historical marker that still stands outside the court house in Colfax which reads, «On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes were slain.

A year later, in 1950, Ossorio returned to the Philippines to paint a mural for the chapel of St. Joseph the Worker on the island of Negros Occidental, while Pollock and Lee Krasner stayed in his New York house.

An image of «Three Folk Musicians» in the catalog is captioned in Bearden's own words: «In the 1920s, during the time of the great migration of Negroes from the South to the big cities, my grandmother ran a boarding house in Pittsburgh.

«In the 1920s, during the time of the great migration of Negroes from the South to the big cities, my grandmother ran a boarding house in Pittsburgh.

Other subjects include: a discussion at the college led by visiting author Alfred Kazin; a discussion led by W. A. Robinson, director of the Secondary School Study of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes, on education for African Americans; faculty appointments; the future of world culture as outlined by Herbert Miller; children in the college community; the role of the college in the surrounding community; radio programs via WWNC; the building of the Quiet House; upcoming plays, concerts, and other events at the college; general campus news and news from alumni of the college.