Sentences with phrase «mostly black audience»

In between his visits, Ms. Nixon formally declared her candidacy, making her first appearance in Brownsville, Brooklyn, speaking before a mostly black audience in one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

Not exact matches

Black Gospel found a limited — and mostly secular — audience among white listeners, but southern white Gospel was routinely panned as vulgar,» «hillbilly» and «western» style music, even by conservative evangelicals in the North.

The audience was mostly black, and everybody was laughing and clapping and hollering like they were in church.

It was a message Mr. Diaz Jr. — a co-chair of Mr. Cuomo's campaign — reiterated to overwhelming applause from the mostly black and Hispanic audience.

Moonlight, an intimate story of a black boy in Miami coming to terms with his sexuality, had a low profile in the industry — it was the first movie fully financed by upstart distributor A24, and the most famous person in the cast was Mahershala Ali, a TV actor largely unknown to Telluride's mostly white audiences.

The female audience that primarily were drawn to see eye - candy men like Walker, Diesel and Tyrese strut their macho stuff, often without a shirt, will probably not care enough to see Walker - wannabe Lucas Black and comic relief cute, Bow Wow, especially as the film is mostly chaste from a romance point of view.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work