Sentences with phrase «old african»

One of the first young persons I met was a seventeen - year - old African American youth that encapsulated the image of the stereotypical gang member.

Adolph Lyons, a 24 - year - old African - American, was driving through Los Angeles with a broken taillight.

McLeod chairs 100 Strong, an initiative for black men to fund a summer school program for 12 - and 13 - year - old African - Canadian boys.

Underneath the headline was an 8 year old African American boy, Xavier Miles, with a big smile on his face before receiving his spirometry test, which shows the function of the lungs, at his school.

Such was the case with Sam Gilliam, the 81 - year - old African American abstract artist whose «drape» paintings were widely celebrated in the 1960s and»70s, but who has gone largely unnoticed since then.

(In case you've been living under a rock, Emmit Till was a 14 - year - old African - American boy who was lynched in 1955 after a white woman said he offended her.

Among the artists featured at Kavi Gupta's booth was McArthur Binion, a charismatic sixty - eight - year - old African American who was the first black artist to graduate from Cranbrook, found champions in Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and other artists in 1970s New York, was in an exhibition at Artists Space during its inaugural year, and, after moving to Chicago, dropped out of sight for thirty years.

Two years ago, Kordansky undertook a pilgrimage to the D.C. studio of Sam Gilliam, an 80 - year - old African - American painter of the Washington Color School.

The carving itself is done by Havel's 18 - year - old African Grey parrot, Hannah.

This was a breakthrough period for the twenty - two - year - old African American artist, whose extraordinary succession of six solo shows that year propelled him to unprecedented global stardom in a predominantly white - dominated industry.

Dana Schutz's depiction of the mutilated body of a 14 - year - old African American boy has been accused of using black death as racialized «spectacle»

The Brooklyn Museum bought «Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit)» from the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea for an undisclosed price, with money from the museum's five - year - old African American Purchase Fund.

Statement: In August 1955, a 14 - year old African American boy allegedly insulted a white woman at Bryant's Grocery Store in Money, Mississippi.

Donelle Woolford is 39 - year - old African American woman born in Conyers, Georgia who has participated in the 2014 Whintey Biennial and performs a stand up routine.

There was no discussion of this spring's Whitney Biennial, in New York, that didn't include the controversy over a painting by Dana Schutz, who is white, of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, a 15 - year - old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, and the protests by a group of black artists over its presence in the biennial.

Despite this, one painting in particular is causing righteous furore: Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) crudely depicts the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14 - year - old African - American male brutally abducted and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on 28 August 1955, whose murderers were all acquitted.

Situated in the heart of the Masai Mara Game Reserve with tents strategically sited in the shade of old African fig trees, all overlooking the Mara River.

Somalisa is an authentic bush camp, a blend of old African charm and elegance, and offers an exc...

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Junior is a 25 year old African Gray (Congo variety).

In 2003, on the eve of the second Gulf War, Curtis Stone, a 40 - year - old African - American ex-Marine, arrives in Las Vegas from his Philadelphia home.

Like Johnson's Printz winner, Booth's debut, about a 15 - year - old African American Bronx teen, is a story of kids raising kids, first love, and the difficulty of making good choices.

Emmett Till was a 14 - year - old African - American boy from Chicago visiting cousins in Money, Mississippi, in 1955.

Christine Kendall's debut, Riding Chance, centers on Troy, a 14 - year - old African American boy who finds himself working community - service hours at a local stable.

I have almost 2 weeks old african grey baby available for rehoming.

In an April 23rd article, reporter Annie Waldman tells the story of a 13 year old African American girl in Bryan, Texas, who was thrown in to juvenile detention last October after an incident in her middle school.

But in the era of strengthened accountability, the gaps narrowed for nine - and thirteen - year old African - American and Hispanic students between 1999 and 2008 in such critical areas as math.

While the old African proverb may be a bit cliché, some Milwaukee area businesses have taken it to heart.

Cheri was a 22 - year - old African - American woman who was 3 months into her first semester as a professional development school intern in the middle grades program of a central Illinois university.

As he nears the halfway point in a four - year contract, Wilson, a 44 - year - old African American man, remains undeterred, with his eyes fixed clearly on the job ahead of him.

Dorothy Smith, a 57 - year - old African - American mother and grandmother in Milwaukee, certainly doesn't fit that description.

There was generally improvement in reading and math by a significant rate of one to two grade levels among 9 - and 13 - year - old African American and Hispanic students during this decade.

As the old African proverb says, «It takes a village to raise a child.»

Some of the 36,000 artifacts on display include a slave cabin from the early 1800s and an 1835 bill of sale for a 16 - year old African American girl.

If minority students today deliberately underachieve in order to avoid social sanctions, that by itself could explain why the academic performance of 17 - year - old African Americans, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has deteriorated since the late 1980s, even while that of nine - year - olds has been improving.

Marcus Carl Franklin leads things off as a 13 year - old African - American Dylan, going by the name of Woody Guthrie.

It's a great and difficult drama that puts us in the Bay Area, with the real - life story of Oscar Grant, a 22 - year - old African American who...

Six Dylan alter egos circulate through the film: Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale are the nearest - to - literal incarnations, with Richard Gere as a mix of Dylan and Billy the Kid, Ben Whishaw as Dylan by way of Rimbaud, and Marcus Franklin, a 10 - year - old African - American, embodying Dylan inhabiting the persona of Woody Guthrie.

«Morris From America» follows Morris (Christmas), a 13 - year - old African - American boy, and his relationship with his father Curtis (Robinson).

NLC is searching for a 70 + Year old African American male for a feature film shooting south of ATL.The older, the better.

For Ahkeem (Unrated) Coming - of - age documentary about a 17 year - old African - American girl's attempt to finish high school for the sake of her newborn son.

The brothers acquire an unexpected assistant in the form of Kamilla (Simone Baker), an 11 - year - old African American girl who finds in their shop a refuge from a problematic home life, which includes a hotheaded older brother who is primed for trouble.

«Fruitvale Station» is based on an actual event, one that resulted in the shooting death of a twenty - two year old African - American living just outside San Francisco, one in which the shooter, a cop, was convicted only of involuntary manslaughter and released after eleven months.

Movie review of «Morris from America»: This Sundance Film Festival winner is about a 13 - year - old African - American boy (Markees Christmas) who relocates to Heidelberg, Germany, with this father (Craig Robinson).

«Kings» takes place against the ambitious backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and opens with a dramatization of the 1991 shooting of Latasha Harlins, the 15 - year - old African American girl killed by a Korean convenience store owner that set the city on edge.

And Annie (Raven Goodwin) is an adopted 8 - year - old African American, who in this emotional minefield of egos has the pluck to define her own space and defend it.

My mind goes straight to Dylan # 1 of Haynes» 2007 masterpiece, I'm Not There, imagined as an 11 - year - old African - American boxcar runaway named Woody, who rambles away from Duluth, Minnesota (like Ben from Wonderstruck) bound for New York town and eventual glory - but not before he can say he's been «hittin» some hard travelin'too».

«I'm not running, I'm choosing,» claims Alike (Adepero Oduye in a brilliant performance) a 17 - year - old African - American who comes to embrace her sexuality in Pariah.

These two brothers strike up a unique and unlikely friendship with an 11 - year - old African American girl, Kamilla (Baker).

A 35 - year - old African American male could turn into a 60 - year - old Asian woman.