Sentences with phrase «new black leaders»

We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

[8] Marguerite Casey Foundation, «Alicia Garza: Black Lives Matter Proves that «New Leaders Are Possible», http://caseygrants.org/alicia-garza-black-lives-matter-proves-that-new-leaders-are-possible/, accessed on February 6, 2016

They did little while the older guard was still alive, but once the senior leaders who practiced racism (e.g. by excluding black denominations from the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America) died or went into retirement they exposed the problem and proposed a radical solution: disband the PFNA and ask African - American Pentecostal leaders to start a new umbrella association for Pentecostal cooperation and, if they wanted to, to invite white Pentecostals into it.

Some strong black leaders joined, and a number of suburban liberals, happy to find a church that really acted on the denomination's social principles, drove into town to work in Trinity's new ministries.

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A left - leaning group is asking the state's top politicians to give back donations from a hedge fund manager who made racially charged comments against New York's only black female legislative leader.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

The Nixon - Marinoni Family Foundation also contributed $ 13,000 to New York Communities for Change between 2012 and 2015 as well as $ 5,000 in 2013 to the Black Institute, whose leader, Bertha Lewis, has endorsed Nixon.

«Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York State Conference Director; Arva Rice President and CEO, the New York Urban League; Phil Banks President, 100 Black Men New York Chapter; H. Carl McCall, Former New York State Comptroller; Bill Thompson, Jr., Former New York City Comptroller; Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, 36th SD; Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, New York's 57th AD; Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York's 43rd AD; Assemblyman Carl Heastie, New York's 83rd AD; Assemblywoman Helen Foster, New York's 16th CD; Councilwoman Letiticia James, New York's 35th CD; Councilman Jumaane Williams New York's 45th CD; District Leader Eric Stevenson, 79th AD

Bryan pointed to groups such as the New Leaders Council and other groups that support black women.

Much of it has to do with long - term changes, as blacks have migrated to outer boroughs and elected a new generation of leaders.

According to my source, they're very concerned about losing the leadership post, which has gone to a black senator since November 2002 when David Paterson ousted then - Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor (a white Brooklynite) became the first non-white elected to lead a legislative conference in New York history and the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

De Blasio becomes the first Democratic mayor of New York since David Dinkins, elected the city's first and only black leader in 1989.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

The week concluded for New York politics with a racially charged jolt: A prominent and prolific campaign donor and benefactor of charter schools in since - deleted Facebook suggested the state's black Senate minority leader had been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

Charlie King, the Mercury Public Affairs lobbyist and former head of the state Democratic Party, is planning another one - man protest, this time targeting new U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his lack of black staffers.

ALBANY — Sen. David Paterson yesterday was selected as the new Senate minority leader, making him the first black to head a state legislative conference in New Yonew Senate minority leader, making him the first black to head a state legislative conference in New YoNew York.

But lately New York's black leaders — including such supposed friends as former state comptroller Carl McCall and Reverend Al Sharpton — have been flirting conspicuously with Cuomo, raising the chances of something unprecedented: that a sitting governor might not receive enough support at this spring's party convention to gain a spot on the fall ballot.

Cuomo's allies say he is committed to meeting the needs of all New Yorkers, and that they are in conversations with black and Latino leaders around the state.

The GOP was unwilling to include protections for gay and lesbian New Yorkers, but counted on black legislative leaders to embrace any progress possible on the issue.

New York State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx, Westchester) invite you to join him for his free Black History Month Celebration Breakfast on Saturday, February 27th at 9AM at the Mount Vernon Armory.

On Thursday night, the New York Times reported that Loeb wrote in a Facebook post that Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black Democratic leader of the New York State Senate, has done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

Now Loeb's racially charged comment about a black state senator threatens to become an unwelcome distraction as Success seeks to expand its footprint in New York and as Moskowitz works to cement her status as a national leader on education reform with a new boNew York and as Moskowitz works to cement her status as a national leader on education reform with a new bonew book.

It's hard to believe that in the world of black Suburbans [with reimbursed mileage], multiple aides, duplicative offices, patronage ponies, free breakfests and per diems to cover dinner and drinks that the Governor and «leaders» can not negotiate in good faith to protect the services and benefits that help New Yorkers that are struggling.

The New York Post reported today that some black church leaders want Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, an African - American Democrat from Brooklyn, to challenge Mr. de Blasio in 2017.

Twenty percent of voters said Sharpton was the top black leader in New York City.

Still, while serving as public advocate, Mr. de Blasio called for Mr. Paterson's resignation, leading black leaders to vent their frustration with his position in a closed - door meeting, according to the Associated Press and New York Post.

The new Shadow Minister for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities says: «Jeremy has shown he's a leader of his time.

Espaillat's decision to run against Rangel sets up a contest that many of New York's black and Latino leaders have said they hoped to avoid, and seems to represent at least a temporary step backward in the construction of a long - dreamed - of, elusive alliance between New York City's black and Latino political establishments.

Earlier in the day, religious leaders and politicians welcomed new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black during the Convent Avenue Baptist Church's annual Martin Luther King Day service, urging her to improve the city's education system.

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«He stood behind the leader,» Mr. Cuomo continued, leaning forward in a black leather chair as his bus rumbled along the New York State Thruway.

Some of New York's top black Democrats were among the dozens who rallied on the streets of Harlem on Monday to show their support for Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the state Senate minority leader, and criticize a hedge fund manager who had attacked her using racially inflammatory language.

Kirkwood is endorsed by United Coalition of Churches and Brotherhood, Young Black Democrats of Western New York and other local community and church leaders.

WASHINGTON, DC — Following a meeting between The Committee of 40 — a bipartisan group of black business leaders — and Republican Congressional leaders earlier this month, John Burnett, CEO of JLB, Holding, LLC and Strategic Advisor for the New York Republican State Committee, issued the following statement:

Kirkwood was endorsed by United Coalition of Churches and Brotherhood, Young Black Democrats of Western New York and other local community and church leaders.

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The 11.12, on the other hand, feels a little more rock «n roll, particularly in the black - on - black fabrication that's been the new line's leader.

«The Bible is clear that you should not have sex outside of marriage, but that is not the reality of what's going on,» says Sophia Nelson, award - winning author of Black Woman... leader of the Singles Ministry at New Birth Christian...

Black Panther will, of course, chart more of T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) story as he grapples with both his royal and warrior destiny and fights enemies old and new, including Duke's M'Baku, the leader of a rival tribe.

Coming to theaters February 16th, Marvel's Black Panther is the new leader as Fandango's best - selling Marvel Cinematic Universe movie in the first 24 hours of pre-sales, beating out the previous record - holder, Captain America: Read More →

Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther — also known as King T'challa — has returned to his technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader, but trouble ensues when two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda.

Season 3 sees Will Ferrell, an executive producer, playing children's author Roald Dahl during his days as a British spy; Josh Hartnett as Hollywood icon Clark Gable; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as abolitionist Harriet Tubman; Topher Grace as board game mogul Milton Bradley; Michael Cera as the leader of the New York newsboy strike of 1899; Dennis Quaid and Sam Rockwell as mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel; Jack Black as Los Angeles water system architect William Mulholland.

Additional productions: Order My Steps for Cornerstone Theater's Black Faith / AIDS project in Los Angeles; and Exhibit # 9, which was produced in New York City by New Perspectives Theatre and Theatre Outrageous; Leader of the People produced at New Georges Theatre.

Bold Films has announced that Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Jude Law (The Young Pope) are set to star in Vox Lux, the new film from writer - director Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader).

The quarter - page, black - and - white advertisement, which ran Oct. 9 in The New York Times, features the words «I Has a Dream» and the image of a man that the ad's creators say represents civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. symbolically turning his back on «ebonics.»