Sentences with phrase «of black activists»

At a time when being black meant being keenly aware of his race and place within society, Lewis traversed both the Abstract Expressionist sphere and that of black activists.

About the same period, and not far from where Hampton died, a group of black activists, under the leadership of the Reverend Arthur M. Brazier, was organizing around much the same premise: self - determination.

The isolation of black activists was almost complete.

The New Black Panthers Party, a radical group of black activists, have promised to show up armed.

Over dinner at Red Rooster in Harlem, Beasley and Jones joined ARTnews to discuss Jones's new book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press), and Beasley's recent project at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, an installation inspired by a historic image of black activist Huey P. Newton and an altarpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome.

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

De Abreu, 27, the co-founder of StopBlackFace.com, was describing a protest in Rotterdam last November, in which she was among roughly 200 activists arrested while protesting the controversial Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyBlack Pete (Zwarte Piet) character - St Nicolas» Moorish «helper», who is portrayed with a painted black face and curlyblack face and curly wig.

By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

It's why the volunteer who led his campaign in the Youngstown area had no issue saying racism was a creation of Barack Obama's Presidency and that Black Lives Matter activists were full of it.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

Ronald Edwards, a black civil rights activist in Minneapolis who contacted Reuters at the request of the police department, said he believed the city's police chief was doing her best to improve race relations.

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

And activists, once the black sheep of the investment world, are now accepted as regular, if meddlesome, investors.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

With half of all U.S. adults already in police facial recognition databases and the 2018 midterm election season upon us, the issue of political data mining feels urgent to Black activists.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

A wide array of people have complained about being successfully targeted by this sort of attack, including a Black Lives Matter activist and the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission.

Activists call the Bayou Bridge Pipeline the «tail end of the black snake» — the Dakota Access Pipeline is the head.

Irish rock band U2 was forced to cancel its St. Louis concert scheduled Saturday over security concerns after Black Lives Matter activists clashed with police following the not guilty verdict of Jason Stockley in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrblack racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embrBlack Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

Of course, to put abortion in such simple, black and white terms can be shocking to some — and many pro-abortion activists would disagree, saying that a child is not human or nor a person or does not possess rights, or some other such argument.

They are not about to champion the Socialist Workers Party, slain Black Panthers and New Left activists — although these are only the most outrageously maligned of the multitude spied upon, which included such sterling citizens as Eleanor Roosevelt and thousands of ordinary, tax - return - filing Americans.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.

In his emphasis on the injustice of the system he allows the poor to escape taking personal responsibility, even though he exalts an increasing spiritual awareness and the activist role of the (mostly) black churches.

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

At the beginning of the year, activist Michelle Higgins took the stage at the Urbana missions conference and issued a call to action: all Christians, she said, should support the Black Lives Matter movement.

About as hilarious as Black activists calling other Blacks «Uncle Toms» because of their disavowing Black hatred and criminality.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

Not all us tea party activists are religious nuts... 90 % of blacks vote democratic and 79 % profess to be religious.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

The Manifesto was an explosive declaration of independence by a new generation of young black activists who had grown impatient with the slow - moving, nonviolent tactics that had prevailed in the Civil Rights Movement.

I have mentioned the variety of membership in the church — activists and contemplatives, rich and poor, old and young, black and white and yellow, morally concerned and aesthetically sensitive — all are included.

It is the emergence of this left, beginning with the black power activists led by Stokely Carmichael, that derailed the integration process and the authentic civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King — a movement which had fought for the idea of a single standard: one justice, indivisible, for all.

Italians, Poles, Irish, Puerto Ricans and Indians are adopting the activist tactics and strategies of blacks and the research methods of the Jews.

An activist South Side priest, Father Michael Pfleger, took aim squarely at Janes, suggesting that Janes was part of a societal conspiracy to destroy black youth.

Because of breastfeeding's well - documented benefits to both baby and mother, many blactavists — Black Lactation Activists, such as Kimberly Seals Allers [158] advocate and support breastfeeding in the African - American community.

On a visit to Parliament Square in the 1960s, Mandela had joked with fellow activist Oliver Tambo that one day they would see a statue of a black person there.

Cuomo hosted the event at the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators caucus weekend, an annual Albany gathering of lawmakers that draws honorees and activists.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

The conference runs through the end of the day Saturday and features such other speakers as Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian - American woman in the House, and activist attorney Zephyr Teachout.

In January, 2010 Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, a Pro-Life activist and a leader of the black community held a Pro-Life rally in Manhattan side - by - side with Chris Slattery of Expectant Mother Care where she encouraged opposition to Bill 371.

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

At 4 p.m. Tuesday, Black Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricBlack Lives Matter activists will rally in front of the Department of Education to deliver a list of demands to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, which include ending zero tolerance programs, ending «black teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack teacher pushout,» and a mandatory K - 12 black history curricblack history curriculum.

The Lib Dems have no black or Asian MPs and only a handful of female MPs, and today Sir Menzies said that while there was no question of introducing a Tory - style A-list, activists would be strongly encouraged to choose diverse candidates.

His recent biography of the black intellectual and activist Darcus Howe, co-written with Paul Field, is published by Bloomsbury.

We were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Black, White, Latinx, Asian, straight, gay, citizen, DREAMers, activists in the areas of housing, criminal justice, LGBTQI rights, immigration, education, racial justice, women's rights, and many other issues.

Standing in front of a large orange - and - black «Paladino for Governor» banner, Golombek joked that he wasn't the only Democrat in the room, noting Rus Thompson, a WNY Tea Party activist and state comptroller candidate on Paladino's Taxpayers Party line, is, too.