Sentences with phrase «local black residents»

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

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Residents of Ferguson, local and national leaders of historic black churches, and some multi-ethnic mainline Protestant and Catholic church clergy engaged.

The elected officials, who are both black, addressed a roughly hundred - strong Uber - organized crowd gathered in Queensbridge Park in Queens — a hodgepodge of company drivers, customers and local residents of the adjacent Queensbridge Houses, apparently drawn by the free food, children's games and classic R&B and girl - group pop blasting from the speaker system.

Jack Black is an immigrant polka performer who defrauds local residents via a Ponzi scheme in this comedy based on a true story....

In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

This exhibition of new work by Kimathi Donkor will reflect on themes arising from Donkor's engagement with local teenage black residents as they discovered the work of black British artists in the national collection at Tate Britain during workshops conducted earlier this Summer.

Established by Theaster Gates in 2012, Black Cinema House hosts year - round screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora at multiple locations on the South Side of Chicago, and offers free video workshops to local residents.

For local residents, we best remember Limbaugh for saying that former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb received so many accolades partly because he was black — leading to his ouster from ESPN.

Black has also participated in many varied volunteer boards, ranging from the local residents association to the Economic Renewal Agency for the Province of Nova Scotia.