Sentences with phrase «many of the black leaders»

To a delegation of black leaders in 1862, he admitted candidly that «I think your race suffer very greatly....

On Friday, a handful of black leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and former NAACP leader Julian Bond, released a letter supporting Obama's position on same - sex marriage but expressing respect for those who disagree.

Brooke was one of the last of a generation of black leaders who personally knew someone who had been born into slavery.

A meeting of black leaders was convened last weekend in Mt. Vernon by the Rev. Al Sharpton and attended by people like former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (Cuomo's primary opponent in 2002), political consultants Bill Lynch and Roberto Ramirez (who got caught up in Cuomo's pension fund pay - to - play probe), Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Senate President Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and the NAACP's Hazel Dukes.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

All of the Black leaders who supported vouchers, most especially Polly, took a lot of abuse from critics, who made all kinds of wild claims, including that conservatives were using us to push their own hidden agenda.

The hiring of black leaders, as well as black representation in charter schools, doesn't make the charter crusade a black movement or mitigate the impact of institutionalized racism on black and brown communities.

What do these statements mean to a black man growing up under segregation, the struggles of the Civil Rights movement, assassinations of black leaders and sanctioned police brutality?

As Monroe's song, «I'm Through With Love,» plays five times, footage of Hunter seductively posing for the camera is interrupted by fragments of black leader.

The explosive visuals pulse to a running soundtrack of recordings of black leaders, musicians, ministers, poets, and celebrities.

While there was a feast of art on two floors, it was disappointing not too see Glenn Ligon's neon «America» sign and «Untitled (Malcolm X),» a coloring book - inspired portrait of the black leader.

Not exact matches

On one side towers Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China's e-commerce market leader, embodied by the black cat mascot of its Tmall platform.

We think the threat of losing delegate representation should incentivize red - state Democrats — and other Democratic leaders — to prioritize issues that directly affect black communities on the state and federal levels.

A Newtonian Leader takes his or her function in more of a black - and - white mechanistic approach.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

The bulk of black voters remained loyal to the Republican Party, and the endorsement of Wilson from DuBois and other black leaders backfired.

Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley's vice chairman of wealth management and senior client adviser, says that leaders often fail black women by not being candid about how their direct reports can improve at work, advance in their careers, or course - correct when something goes wrong.

In the past year, Google has increased its percentages of female employees, female leaders, black employees and Hispanics by a mere 1 %, it says.

Just 15 % of organizations have a designated C - suite leader to manage enterprise - wide data security efforts, according to a recent Black Book Research study.

According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

Business, government and community leaders come together at this black - tie gala to officially induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Immediate Past Chair into the Council of Governors.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

But leaders including those in the White House said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and experts agree that the phenomenon was more blip than Black Monday.

NMSDC PRESENTS LEADER OF THE YEAR AWARD TO FORD EXECUTIVE Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2014 — The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC ®) named Carla Preston of Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, FlLEADER OF THE YEAR AWARD TO FORD EXECUTIVE Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2014 — The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC ®) named Carla Preston of Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, FloridOF THE YEAR AWARD TO FORD EXECUTIVE Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2014 — The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC ®) named Carla Preston of Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Floridof Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, FlLeader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Floridof the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Florida.

The Company of Young Professionals program fosters an environment where millennials can learn from seasoned business leaders while forging long - lasting relationships with other young professionals,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Each spring, this black - tie gala brings together business, government, and community leaders to induct the Board of Trade's immediate past chair into its prestigious Council of Governors.

The black - tie gala evening brings together business, government, and community leaders to induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's immediate past chair into its Council of Governors and to honour the 2017 recipients of the Rix Awards for Community and Corporate Citizenship.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, participated in a pre-NAFTA delegation on January 22 in Montreal that brought together the leaders of chambers of commerce from across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Jeff Fort is an American criminal best known as the founder and leader of the Black P. Stone Nation gang.

It's not well known that Black Freedom Movement leaders in the 1960s and 1970s — from the Black Panthers to MLK — championed the idea of a guaranteed income.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

He added that half of his 10 direct reports are women and two are LGBT, and that the company has been working to promote a program called Advancing Black Leaders.

It's bottled up anger for a black young lawyer and «community organizer» (only in the republican party where community organizer is a derogatory word) who was able to reach new heights and be the leader of the white house.

Black religious leaders must be in the forefront of the fight for secular rights to be acknowledged and protected.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

Black leaders, confronting their people's need and their own impotency, believe they must continue to portray blacks as «the conscience of the nation.»

By evoking past suffering and current deprivations experienced by the ghetto poor, some black leaders seek to feed the guilt, and worse, the pity of the white establishment.

Admittedly, the flood of responses from black religious leaders was a partly a function of where the TV cameras were pointed.

The dictates of political advocacy require that personal inadequacies among blacks be attributed to «the system,» and that emphasis by black leaders on self - improvement be denounced as irrelevant, self - serving, dishonest.

These leaders seek to make blacks into the conscience of America, even if the price is the loss of our souls.

All blacks, some of our «leaders» seem proud to say, owe their accomplishments to political pressures for diversity.

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

Eldrige Cleaver was MORMON and he was a Leader of The Black Panthers... Get Over it...

Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

From the Speed Read: Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

If the FBI's own agents did not directly carry out murder plots, the bureau intensified the climate of violence in which black leaders were slain — just as the CIA set the stage for the kidnapping and then the shooting of General Rent Schneider in Chile and the bloody overthrow of Salvador Allende three years later.

With the Latest News now out about the nation's largest Black organization endorsing Gay marriage and calling for an end to the hate and citing the 14th Amendment, Coretta S. King, wife of the very famous Black civil rights leader, would have been immensely happy!

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.

Bill Marsh, the Team Leader of the Black Country Urban Industrial Mission (BCUIM) spoke to Premier about how the group helps employees in the manufacturing industry.