Sentences with phrase «like black activists»

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At 56, he pursued elected office for the first time after a 30 - year career defending radical activist groups like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia.

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

In 2016, the ACLU in California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activists.

The «big black head» in Martin Luther King Park is a mistake, and has to be replaced with a statue that looks more like the slain civil rights leader, according to Samuel A. Herbert, a community activist who is leading a petition drive.

Meryl Streep, in her interview with Ryan Seacrest — an interview she conducted with the activist Ai - jen Poo — summed up the optics of tonight's red carpet like so: «We feel sort of emboldened in this particular moment to stand together in a thick black line dividing then from now.»

Malcolm X was an activist for black rights, but his ideas were not quite in line with the more popular notions of other black activists like Martin Luther King.

Brittany Packnett showed up as her full self to talk about what it is like to be a black activist for justice in all white spaces.

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.

In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.

Writer, activist and teacher, Pamela Lewis shared, «Many black and brown teachers are just as disengaged with our current school system as that of their students, and like many... Read More

In February, Bertrams, the UK's second - biggest book wholesaler, was sold to private equity backer Aurelius for half the sum it originally bid for the business (which itself seemed like a knock - down price for a business with sales of more than # 200m); last week the UK's biggest high street book chain Waterstones was sold to activist investor Elliott Advisors for a sum thought to be considerably less than its Russian owner Alexander Mamut once wanted; and this week the UK's biggest printer of black and white books, Clays, with sales of # 77m, was sold to Italian printer Elcograf for # 23.8 m.

-- 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

But I do always, just being a black woman in the art world, think about the way my tone is policed constantly... Now that I've actually started developing my voice and tell people what I think, everyone's like, «Oh, Kim, the activist.»

According to a release, participants will «explore the ways in which the politics of race are changing in America and France in a time of both growing extremism and the rise of activist movements like Black Lives Matter; what the rise of the populist right in both countries means for national identity; and what both countries» attitudes toward immigration have done to shape its interaction with the broader world.»

Founded in 1941 through the efforts of such cultural activists as Margaret Burroughs, the South Side Community Art Center played a key role in nurturing the careers of postwar black artists like Eldzier Cortor, Marion Perkins, and Archibald Motley Jr..

In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.