Sentences with phrase «where black folk»

«Always pay close attention to your surroundings, son, especially if you are in an affluent neighborhood where black folks are few.

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Folks like my previous recipe, the black bean burgers one, this courgette and sundried tomato frittata is another recipe I'm recreating from our recent trip to Hawaii and San Francisco where we had these at the Hyatt in Oahu for breakfast.

He then thought back to our previous president, playing a game black folks, progressives, and resistors play every so often, in a world where the current president feeds on and legitimizes white supremacy in an attempt to delegitimize America's first black president.

The requirement for a bank card is an insurance coverage for the rental firms versus folks who induce damage or have actually the auto swiped throughout rental, as there will often be a large excess / deductible to pay, or just those who disappear with their auto (often driving right into parts of Eastern Europe where there is a healthy and balanced black market demand for Western cars).

Black folks are both more likely to live in the places where heat waves are the most severe, and when they occur, we are more likely to face grave consequences,» said Benjamin Todd Jealous, the CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on the call with reporters today.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The title of Spike Lee's war drama, based on the novel by James McBride, suggests a war miracle movie where all are saved by kindness or luck or divine intervention, but there is no such otherworldly benevolence here, merely the sacrifice of four black servicemen — Buffalo Soldiers — to protect the folks of a small mountain village in Tuscany surrounded by the Germans.

Remember that scene in The Blues Brothers where Jake Blues catches the Holy Ghost while watching James Brown lead a leaping, flying congregation of black folks in a gospel blowout?That's the spirit — the soul — of Dreamgirls, Bill Condon's film adaptation of the long - running Broadway musical.

Goodness no — it's a place where the world's maligned and marginalised, from black folk to bearded ladies, can proudly be themselves in the spotlight.

After this latest incident, the city of Busan, where both statues were located and destroyed by drunk folks, has decided not to display Black Panther effigies.

He asserted, ``... where some of America's best public schools educating some of America's blackest and most disadvantaged kids are concerned, the NAACP's duplicitous engagement of black folks on the issue of charter schools is the worst kind of betrayal.»

For folks in the looking to snag a BlackBerry KEYone in silver or BlackBerry KEYone Black Edition in the UK, Carphone Warehouse and John Lewis both now have offers in place where you save can # 50 off the SIM - free pricing.

After Doyle's inclusion in the Corcoran Gallery of Art's pivotal exhibition «Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980» (1982), curated by Jane Livingston, the artist's work brought him notoriety and praise — the late Jean - Michel Basquiat on one occasion traded his own artworks for Doyle's and Ed Ruscha paid postmortem tribute to the artist with his painting «Where Are You Going, Man?

Anna Martine lives in Chicago, where she regularly experiments with quantum free fall and Black folk dances of death.

«Kerry James Marshall's paintings of black people simply being human stand out in an art - industrial complex where subjects, artists, purveyors, and consumers are pretty much white folk.

A lot of folks, including myself, think that the recent melting of Arctic sea ice and rising Arctic temperatures is more attributable to Asian black carbon pollution than to CO2 and greenhouse gas warming (particularly since similar warming and sea ice melting is not seen in the Antarctic, where there is not a problem with soot pollution).

Simmons grew up in the Jim Crow South, where as part of the demoralizing impact of segregation, she «didn't believe black folks were as good as white folks.»

I've received quite a few emails from folks asking where we got the frames we used in our Guest Bedroom, so I thought I'd post a picture that lists the names of the stores they came from today: I forgot to point at the two black ones on the far left and right.Those came -LSB-...]

Greetings!I've received quite a few emails from folks asking where we got the frames we used in our Guest Bedroom, so I thought I'd post a picture that lists the names of the stores they came from today: I forgot to point at the two black ones on the far left and right.Those came from Walmart too.If... [Read More...]