Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which has a reputation as one of the most powerful prosecutorial posts in the country. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of NY DOJ, Eli Alfordĭamian Williams in 2021 was appointed to lead the U.S.
Attorney’s Office, Southern District of NY U.S. Attorneys, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New Yorkĭamian Williams, Breon Peace & Trini Ross This list, written and researched by City & State staff with assistance from journalists Asar John and Jared McCallister, highlights the elected officials, business executives, labor chiefs, community advocates and other trailblazers in New York who are writing the next chapter of Black life in America. City & State’s Power of Diversity: Black 100, which coincides with Black History Month for the first time this year, puts a spotlight on today’s Black power brokers who are active in New York politics and government. Of course, it’s not only Black history that matters – it’s also about the status of Black Americans here and now as well as where things are headed.
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In 1976, Gerald Ford became the first president to officially observe Black History Month, claiming that the recent “strides in the full integration” of Black Americans realized the lofty ideals established two centuries earlier.
Over the years the one-week commemoration caught on, and by the 1960s it had expanded in many places into a monthlong memorialization. Back in the 1920s, an organization known today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History selected the second week of February as a time to recognize the achievements and accomplishments of Black Americans.
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