Sentences with phrase «owned by black women»

Firms owned by black women fared worst by this measure.)

From 2007 to 2012, the number of businesses owned by black women increased 67.5 percent.

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When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

After high school at the Black Heath School, founded in the 1860s by protofeminists «to produce women who could beat men at their own game,» Coakley entered Cambridge, where she studied with Robinson and «chucked out prayer and the ritual dimension» of faith.

The blacks, advised by two white women students from Cape Town University, are to put on a play in their own tribal language, whose general drift, if not clear from the action, will be explained by locals at your side.

Our strategy is to anger Hispanics by freaking out about the illegal aliens, to anger women by reducing their control over their own bodies and lessening their health care choices, to anger Blacks by calling the NAACP and MLK racist, to alienate moderates with our extremist ideologies like Tea Party and Limbaugh and the Religious Right.

It claims that by rooting around in our own egos or by reflecting upon our life experiences as men or women, whites or blacks, we really won't discover much that is worth knowing, unless we know this Jew from Nazareth who is the way, the truth and the life, and are part of a people who follow him.

Adoptive Black Mom (ABM) is the story of a single mom by choice, an adoptive mom through foster care, and a woman who — in her own words — realized as she was approaching 40 that she wanted something more.

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn), the only black female New York congressional lawmaker, told Observer that she was motivated by issues at the federal level which affect her community, including comprehensive immigration reform and minority - and women - owned businesses.

In a report published last year, the Black Institute — run by Bertha Lewis, a former ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio who has since become a sharp critic — noted that unlike the city, the state has not released any data beyond the split between women - owned businesses and minority - owned businesses.

The Bloomberg administration's plan to give more city contracts to firms owned by women and minorities resulted in just 7 percent of revenue going to black - owned companies, the Wall Street Journal reports, while the bulk went to companies owned by Asian - Americans or white women.

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Played by Scarlett Johansson in acid - washed jeans, a tart - ish fur coat and an unkempt black mop of hair, the woman is not human — one scene has her peeling the clothes from her own corpse before carrying on the work of her «predecessor» — but it is unclear exactly what she is, or for that matter what her purpose is.

Played by Scarlett Johansson in acid washed jeans, a tart - ish fur coat and unkempt black mop of hair, the woman is not human (one scene has her peeling the clothes from her own corpse before carrying on the work of her «predecessor») but it is unclear exactly what she is, or for that matter what her purpose is.

The streamer's FYSee space at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, Calif., was home to two such important conversations on Saturday — «leading the charge,» moderated by Variety's own Jenelle Riley, featured powerful women in front of the camera, including Alison Brie («GLOW»), Danielle Brooks («Orange Is the New Black»), Sarah Gadon («Alias Grace»), and Regina King («Seven Seconds»); Variety «s executive editor of TV, Debra Birnbaum, moderated a panel with those behind the camera — showrunners and «shot callers» Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch («GLOW»), Marta Kauffman («Grace and Frankie»), Gloria Allred («Seeing Allred»), Veena Sud («Seven Seconds»), Melissa Rosenberg («Marvel's Jessica Jones»), and Netflix's own vice president of original series Cindy Holland.

For every one dollar of assets owned by a single black or Hispanic woman, a member of the Forbes 400 has over forty million dollars.

Owned and run by a female of African - American descent, this company is dedicated to printing books by black, women and LGBT authors.

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of The Conversation Series, about everything from the need for a redesigned hospital gown, to his relationship to Donald Judd and Marfa, Texas, to «recipes» for making art, his years spent in the Navy, becoming a hairdresser in order to meet women, being cast as a drunken womanizer by Black Mountain College scholars, Andy Warhol's Factory, John Waters, Robert Creeley and even Chamberlains, the restaurant he owned with his son in the mid-1990s.

By centering black women as subjects and audience, Leigh forges her own sense of time that is constantly navigating various histories, while contending with the present and with possible futures.

Goodman's legacy was unique: it was founded by a woman in 1966 — a time when very few women were owning and running businesses — and had provided a platform for black artists to exhibit their work despite apartheid laws against this.

She explains, «By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty, and background, I'm working to diversify the representations of black women in art.»

Black Women / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moWomen / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century mowomen in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moment.

Opening this Wednesday at the California African American Museum, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85 focuses on pioneering black female artists, whose work brought to the fore their own experiences and narratives, long neglected by both the mainstream and avant - gBlack Radical Women, 1965 — 85 focuses on pioneering black female artists, whose work brought to the fore their own experiences and narratives, long neglected by both the mainstream and avant - gblack female artists, whose work brought to the fore their own experiences and narratives, long neglected by both the mainstream and avant - garde.