Sentences with phrase «including black activists»

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A wide array of people have complained about being successfully targeted by this sort of attack, including a Black Lives Matter activist and the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission.

They are not about to champion the Socialist Workers Party, slain Black Panthers and New Left activists — although these are only the most outrageously maligned of the multitude spied upon, which included such sterling citizens as Eleanor Roosevelt and thousands of ordinary, tax - return - filing Americans.

I have mentioned the variety of membership in the church — activists and contemplatives, rich and poor, old and young, black and white and yellow, morally concerned and aesthetically sensitive — all are included.

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricBlack Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack history curriculum.

The GOP plan also included money sought by the IDC for local groups, including $ 70,000 for The Black Institute founded by longtime activist Bertha Lewis, an IDC supporter.

From the beginning, Black Lives Matter supporters have included protesters and activists of all races.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

Activists interpreted the Gurley homicide as part of a larger pattern of cops killing unarmed blacks, including Staten Islander Eric Garner and Ferguson teen Michael Brown.

University of Vermont students and Black Lives Matter activists are demanding top administrators resign over the college's failure to meet student demands for diversity initiatives, including the installation of BLM flags on campus.

«Over the last week, he has personally spoken with members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, PBA President Pat Lynch, community activists including Russell Simmons and Shawn «Jay - Z» Carter, and district attorneys from across the state and looks forward to continuing this dialogue with additional stakeholders in the coming days and weeks,» she said.

As well as wearing black, many women brought activists as their plus one, including Meryl Streep.

The other character types in the film including Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse) the hot girl, Shiley (Andrea Bowen) and McKenzie (Evanna Lynch) the religious types, Sophie (Molly Tarlov) the I am not sure if she's a lesbian or a rebel, Soledad (Joanna «JoJo» Levesque), the activist, Glen, the straight guy who everyone thinks is gay, and lastly, Caprice (Xosha Roquemore), who more or less is your typical black girl with a hot shot attitude and is big on trying to promote diversity within the school.

Finally there are the people connected to the Democratic rally being planned at the hotel, including an angry black activist (Nick Cannon) and a Czech reporter who wants to interview Kennedy (Svetlana Metkina).

The 2018 WGA West honorees included screenwriter James L. Brooks, receiving the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement; writer - producer Alison Cross, receiving the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement; screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black, receiving the Valentine Davies Award; and «The Post» screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, receiving the Paul Selvin Award.

Black and Hispanic religious leaders and civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King III, implored the Florida Education Association to drop its lawsuit challenging the voucher - like program that serves about 75,000 students.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

This includes working to co-opt activists within the criminal justice reform and Black Lives Matter movements.

That many in the school reform movement have either been reluctant or outright hostile about working with Black Lives Matter and criminal justice reform activists on addressing issues that are tied to schools (including overuse of harsh school discipline and the penchant of traditional districts to refer children to juvenile courts), has also made it easy for NEA and AFT to win over some activists.

The nationally touring exhibition American People, Black Light also highlighted Ringgold's role as an artist activist and included a selection of her political posters.

«WE WANTED A REVOLUTION» AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM April 21 — September 17 — Prospect Heights «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85» is a groundbreaking show that gives an underrecognized generation of female artists and activists of color their due, including Emma Amos, Beverly Buchanan, Pat Davis, Lisa Jones, Samella Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

EXHIBITION For more than a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has surveilled individuals and groups viewed as a threat to the status quo, including civil rights activists, the Nation of Islam, and Black Panthers.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Wearing head - to - toe denim and black lipstick, un-brushed blond hair falling around her shoulders, Ellison presided over a panel that pinged from salacious to silly to serious in seconds, and included Vogue sex columnist Karley Sciortino; writer and activist Grace Dunham; artist and activist Reina Gosset; and filmmaker Leilah Weinraub.

Speakers include Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, musician / singer Tariq «Black Thought» Trotter, journalist Charles Blow, poet and essayist Claudia Rankine, artist Hank Willis Thomas, political activist Linda Sarsour, and more

Lorraine O'Grady Crossing disciplines including performance, criticism, photography and video, Lorraine O'Grady's meditations on Black identity and women's representation have positioned her as a fore - bearer of conceptual and activist practice.

Its down - value look and activist ethos are evident in everything, including the black house - paint mural he has brushed, single - handedly, across one of the museum's walls and the hand - printed, hand - bound books he has placed in the gallery he designates as chapel and library.

There are also artists who tackle LGBT issues, including Félix González - Torres and Zoe Leonard, and seven works of Ligon's own, including a colouring - book picture of Malcolm X, in which the black activist has been left with white skin.

Their presence is balanced by seasoned cultural purveyors, including Hungarian - Syrian artist Róza El - Hassan (INDA Gallery, Budapest), who represented Hungary in the 1997 Venice Biennale and enjoyed a major retrospective In - Between at Kunstmuseum Basel in 2012, in addition to her ongoing project Syrian Voices with activist Shadi Al Shhadeh; veteran color theorist Siri Berg (Hionas Gallery, New York), whose 1986 seminal show Black & White 1976 - 1981 at the American Swedish Historical Museum (Philadelphia) was recently restaged at the gallery.

Its down - value look and activist ethos are evident in everything, including the black house - paint mural he has brushed, single - handedly, across one of the museum's wall and the hand - printed, hand - bound books he has placed in the gallery he designates as chapel and library.

Spanning the emergence of Black feminism, debates over the possibility of a unique Black aesthetic in photography, and including activist posters as well as purely abstract works, the exhibition asks how the concept of Black Art was promoted, contested and sometimes flatly rejected by artists across the United States.

According to her campaign website, she is about to publish a young adult anthology featuring 48 essays from leaders describing their teenage struggles, including Patrisse Khan - Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter; teen trans activist Gavin Grimm; and Danielle Vabner, a young woman who lost her baby brother at the Sandy Hook massacre.