Sentence examples for figure of black from inspiring English sources

He peers round his doorframe at the departing figure of Black, off to "chap" his neighbour's door.

In 2013, the figure of black children living in poverty was 39 per cent, compared to 14 per cent of white children.

As Jones, he had already given birth to the striking figure of Black Dada Nihilismus, who threatens to "choke my friends / in their bedrooms" in the name of a "blacker art".

Alongside his career as a performer, James Brown has consistently promoted himself as an exemplary figure of black capitalist self-empowerment, touting a doctrine of enterprise as emancipation; ownership and tycoondom as the ultimate social justice.

Over the years he advised the likes of Winnie Mandela; Terror Lekota, who later would launch the Congress of the People party; and Steve Biko, father figure of Black Consciousness and the country's most influential black politician.

One of the main reasons - and it's not now me saying that, it's also admitted by the present new ANC minister of education - one of the main reasons why the dropout figure of black students, and the lower pass rate of black students in the present education system, and it was like that before, was that we didn't have mother-tongue education.

Tiny figures of black slaves and American Indian hunters labor in the foregrounds.

(It may also be a reference to the contemporary artist Kara Walker's controversial silhouetted figures of black people).

She went to Paris, where she worked with black female models to produce work in wood and clay and bronze: figures of black women reclining, dancing, fighting, thinking.

When Jill, who works in real estate, helps clean out a house for an absent client, she discovers a room full of grotesque porcelain figures of black men and women and photographs of Ku Klux Klan atrocities.

Hate speech, cartoon figures of black sheep being kicked out of the country, arbitrary detentions, camps where immigrants are concentrated, ill-treatment up to and including torture have once again become acceptable.