Sentences with phrase «only black writers»

Hank Neary, one of the agency's only black writers, asked, «Come on, now - who would want my travel toothbrush?»

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The first time Chirlane McCray stepped into City Hall, she was a 36 - year - old speech writer for then - Mayor David Dinkins — the city's first and only black mayor — in the early 1990s.

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director -LRB-...

After the success of Ta - Nehisi Coates» current run on Black Panther, Marvel has made another big move in an attempt to diversify not only their characters, but the writers and artists in their employ.

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director (Ryan Coogler) and co-screenwriter (Joe Robert Cole).

An abstract of drug - addled dilettantes straight out of the late -»70s New York art scene (and writer - director Tom DiCillo's id), Johnny Suede really has no cinematic peer or precedent, and his layers of squeaky - clean rockabilly artifice — the name and matching black suede shoes, the skyscraper pompadour, the two - tone wardrobe — only confuses the pastiche, making it that much more impenetrable.

Spoilers to follow: It's obviously going to deal with the remaining Avengers trying to reverse what Thanos has done with the Infinity Stones and the only other thing we can say with confidence is that writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely told me that the characters that didn't get much screen time in Infinity War (mainly Cap and Black Widow) will take centre stage in Avengers 4.

Black became the icon for every maître d with a script tucked underneath his podium — not only did «Lethal Weapon» get sold for top dollar — particularly for a first time writer — but it attracted top talent like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and became an international sensation that spawned three equally lucrative sequels.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

Michael Jai White is not only a star but one of the writers of the animated show «Black Dynamite» and in season 2 he plans to continue hitting controver...

Pam Grady: Two soldiers — one white, one black — return from fighting in World War II only to discover nothing has changed in Jim Crow south in writer / director Dee Rees» potent adaptation of Hillary Jordan's novel.

Since the only superpower Hollywood truly recognizes is boffo box office, I hope that the inescapable commercial success of «Black Panther» will result not simply in more black - themed superhero movies but also in something far more valuable: a recognition of the extraordinary range and artistry of black filmmakers, writers, and actors whose talents even now remain so imposingly underrepresented and unexpreBlack Panther» will result not simply in more black - themed superhero movies but also in something far more valuable: a recognition of the extraordinary range and artistry of black filmmakers, writers, and actors whose talents even now remain so imposingly underrepresented and unexpreblack - themed superhero movies but also in something far more valuable: a recognition of the extraordinary range and artistry of black filmmakers, writers, and actors whose talents even now remain so imposingly underrepresented and unexpreblack filmmakers, writers, and actors whose talents even now remain so imposingly underrepresented and unexpressed.

Kimmel noted that Get Out writer - director Jordan Peele is one of only three people to be nominated for three major categories in his directorial debut, and Peele also became the first black writer to win the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Reinforcing those broader trends, «Lady Bird» writer - director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to score a nomination for directing, while Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to score a nomination in that category and just the third person to receive best picture, directing and writing nominations for a debut feature.

It's 1863, and Frederick Douglass, the well - known writer, speaker, abolitionist, and former slave, is the only black man waiting in the crowded room outside Lincoln's office in hopes of meeting the president.

Indeed, given the breadth and variety of convincing, dark characters at the heart of novels by the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker and, now, Saul Black, one can only hope these writers are able to maintain good emotional and mental health.

But I had many UK publishers, not one: Faber, Hodder, Scholastic, S&S, Penguin, A & C Black, Larousse, Corgi, OUP, CUP... Some editors were better than others, but none of them were simply concerned with how much they could market the book for — which is what asking the writer only to change the word count amounts to.

Contributing writer Margot Black visited not only Machu Picchu, but also the Sacred Valley... Read More...

Contributing writer Margot Black visited not only Machu Picchu, but also the Sacred Valley and Cusco, which are rich in history and vibrant cultural traditions.

His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive paintings — frequently featuring bold black shapes against fields of color — but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School.

Another protester, Hannah Black, a British - born black artist and writer working in Berlin, has written a letter to the biennial's curators, Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew, urging that the painting be not only removed from the show but also destrBlack, a British - born black artist and writer working in Berlin, has written a letter to the biennial's curators, Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew, urging that the painting be not only removed from the show but also destrblack artist and writer working in Berlin, has written a letter to the biennial's curators, Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew, urging that the painting be not only removed from the show but also destroyed.

This week, black artists and writers are protesting not only the painting's inclusion in the Biennial, but the painting's very existence; a black British - born artist has even suggested that Schutz's painting be destroyed.

It's very easy for writers and viewers to see race in work, because black people were only recently honored in society at all.

In 1966, in a letter to the writer Barbara Rose, he complains that she writes an article about Ad Reinhardt's black paintings «without mentioning my black painting, Abraham, the first and still the only black painting in history.»

Comrad Black's book on his convictions being more than 500 pages long might well have meant that he was a bad, rambling writer, who could only make his make his point (s) effectively under the discipline of an oral presentatation, or through having someone make an oral presentation for him.