Sentences with phrase «of black leaders»

We are building a pipeline of Black leaders in education, and this is just the beginning.

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

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

Cuomo, who is particularly sensitive to the who race issue after his failed challenge to then - Comptroller H. Carl McCall in the 2002 gubernatorial primary, worked hard last year to rally the support of black leaders.

Increasing numbers of black leaders wanted to fight segregation with segregation, imposing a black - only social order that at least paid lip service to excluding even white reporters from press briefings.

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.

In the latter days of the civil rights movement, many of the black leaders made a mistake, I think, when they told us whites to leave the fray and go back to work among our own people, for «they are the ones that need the help.»

And no amount of the billions they have stolen can reverse this... it is just hard for this simple fact to sink into the head of black leaders, but it is what it is and that is why we are bottom of the global food chain!!!

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.

And much of his early campaign was based on relentlessly criticizing Ms. Rice for her opposition to some provisions of the overhaul of the drug - sentencing laws last year, an issue that has little to do with the attorney general's office but was a top priority of black leaders.

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.

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.

Since the NAACP's proposed moratorium on public charter schools in July, a number of Black leaders and organizations have come out against its stance.

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.