Sentences with phrase «rights leaders malcolm»

He nabbed two more Oscar nominations playing persecuted historical figures: civil - rights leader Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic (1992) and wrongfully imprisoned prizefighter Rubin «Hurricane» Carter in Norman Jewison's The Hurricane (1999).

Not exact matches

Baldwin writes about how he coped with the assassinations of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers.

Instead, the Democrats stripped the majority leader post of all constitutional powers and privileges, and provided the president — Malcolm Smith — with the right to appoint the majority leader.

But it's only right now a «potential» majority because three «rogue» Democrats, Sen. Carl Kruger, Sen. - elect Pedro Espada Jr., and Sen. Ruben Diaz, all Democrats, are conservative on social issues and at least one has admitted using same - sex marriage as a bargaining chip with Democratic leader Malcolm Smith (pictured, above).

Two Democrats, the Reverend Ruben Diaz, Sr., of the Bronx, and Brooklyn's Simcha Felder (who in any event caucuses with the Republicans separate from the IDC) are hostile to LGBT rights, and the recent indictments of two former Senate Democratic leaders still in office — Malcolm Smith of Queens and John Sampson of Brooklyn — recall in Avella's mind and others» the dysfunction that beset the Senate when the Democrats last had control, in 2009 and 2010.

This exhibition includes photographs that feature protest signs, as well as images of the larger culture of resistance surrounding them, with an emphasis on Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael.

This year, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery proudly presented Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that the artist has created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.

The title of the exhibition was taken from Cornel West's 2014 book Black Prophetic Fire, in which he speaks to the enduring resonance of blues, jazz, hip - hop discourse, and the writings of Malcolm X within the tradition of parrhesia, saying that with the civil rights leader, «It was always «bring in the funk, bring in the truth, bring in the reality.»

(New York — August 31, 2017) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery proudly presents Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures that the artist has created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.

Inspired by a sense of global struggle against systems of oppression and the political rhetoric of Malcolm X, Chase - Riboud produced her first bronze and fabric sculpture in tribute to the slain human rights leader.

(2016) is still located at the barbershop, but the work deploys the potent portraits of American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and adds deliberately indistinguishable black figures.

Currently on view, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Barbara Chase - Riboud — Malcolm X: Complete, an exhibition celebrating her now complete series of monumental bronze and fiber sculptures, created over the last half - century in honor of the slain human rights leader.