His family group portraits are often faceless, which Alston states is the way that white America views blacks.

" About the artwork, Alston is quoted " The idea of a march was growing ... It was in the air ... and this painting just came.

" Writer June Jordan described Alston as " an American artist of first magnitude, and he is a Black American artist of undisturbed integrity.

Like most American philosophers, Alston is counted among the analytic philosophers.

Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D. C. office of law firm Alston & Bird.

Alston is a town in Montgomery County, Georgia, United States.

Alston is located at.

* Alston is an unincorporated community in the township at.

Clatskanie is surrounded by many small unincorporated communities, including Alston, Delena, Clatskanie Heights, Inglis, Kerry, Marshland, Mayger, Quincy, and Woodson.

Currently named the William H. Alston Municipal Public Library, it is one of two municipal public libraries in the state.

At Alston station there is a cafe and gift shop both operated by the railway company.

It is built on the southern end of the track bed of the disused standard gauge Haltwhistle to Alston Line, which formerly connected with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at Haltwhistle.

Employing his skills as a mechanical engineer, he devised a water engine for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1761 and a watermill at Alston, Cumbria in 1767 ( he is credited by some for inventing the cast iron axle shaft for waterwheels ).

The Richard Alston Dance Company is a medium size contemporary dance company that was formed in 1994 after the demise of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, based at The Place in London.

If divine command theory is accepted, it implies that God is good because he obeys his own commands ; Alston argued that this is not the case and that God's goodness is distinct from abiding by moral obligations.

He suggested that a moral obligation implies that there is some possibility that the agent may not honour their obligation ; Alston argued that this possibility does not exist for God, so his morality must be distinct from simply obeying his own commands.

Alston contented that God is the supreme standard of morality and acts according to his character, which is necessarily good.

Based on an idea by Daniel Alston and implemented by Brion Vibber, the goal of the project is to produce collaboratively a vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films and proverbs, and to give details about them with appropriate attribution.

Nathaniel Macon is the great-grandfather of Congressman Charles Martin, the uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, great-uncle of Matt Whitaker Ransom, Robert Ransom and Thomas Jefferson Green, great-great-uncle of Wharton Jackson Green, John Pegram, William Ransom Johnson Pegram, and David Harrison Macon, great-great-great-great-uncle of Claude Kitchin and William Walton Kitchin, and the great-great-great-great-great-uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin.

John Alston Maxton, Baron Maxton ( born 5 May 1936 ) is a Scottish Labour Party politician.

Alston is a small town in Cumbria, England on the River South Tyne.

Confirmation was received in November 2009 that a grant of £ 100, 000 had been awarded by the Groundwork UK Community Spaces programme which will be used to fund the restoration of three historic railway bridges on the former Haltwhistle to Alston line.

Additions to the fleet in 2011 were an all-steel buffet coach, originally built by Gloucester Carriage and Wagon for Sierra Leone Railways, and re-gauged from 750mm to 610mm for use at Alston, and a re-gauged former Romanian steel coach now converted to be fully accessible for disabled passengers.

" Pomeroy joined former Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole at Alston & Bird.

He was a former Member of Parliament for the rotten boroughs of Bere Alston and Dunwich.

* H. Alston Johnson III, former federal judicial nominee to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and longtime friend of Clinton

* Rafer Alston ( 1976 -), former NBA player.

Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party.

For what would be their 30th reunion, former member Blue Lovett decided to return to the music scene with his own Manhattans in 1995, bringing back Gerald Alston as lead vocalist in his group.

* Richard Alston ( politician ) ( born 1941 ), Australian High Commissioner to the UK and former Australian senator

The Diocese covers the most of the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria ; Alston Moor is part of the Diocese of Newcastle, and the former Sedbergh Rural District is part of the Diocese of Bradford.

Trains still run to Bere Alston railway station on the picturesque Tamar Valley Line, and there has been discussion of making the town a junction once again by reopening the former ' main line ' to Tavistock, the largest town in Devon currently without a railway station.

* H. Alston Johnson, III, former federal judicial nominee to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Theorists include Ashanti Alston, Lorenzo Kom ' boa Ervin, Kuwasi Balagoon, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Greg Jackson, Shaka N ' Zinga, Roger White, Martin Sostre and many former members of the Black Panther Party.

Both Railfuture and the former MP for Totnes, Anthony Steen, have in the past proposed the reinstatement of the line between Okehampton and Bere Alston, thereby reconnecting the station with Plymouth.

Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

Alston graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was nominated for academic excellence and was the art editor of the school's magazine, The Magpie.

Alston and his friends thought the exhibits were curated for a white audience, a form of segregation which the men protested.

In 1938 the Rosenwald Fund provided money for Alston to travel to the South, which was his first return there since leaving as a child.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

Alston shared studio space with Henry Bannarn at 306 W. 141st St, which served as an open space for artists, photographers, musicians, writers and the like.

Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

In 1970 Alston was commissioned by the Community Church of New York to create a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. for $ 5, 000, with limited copies produced.

With Plantinga, Wolterstorff, and others, Alston was also responsible for the development of " Reformed epistemology " ( a term that Alston, an Episcopalian, never fully endorsed ), one of the most important contributions to Christian thought in the twentieth century.

On January 5, 2010, the Heat traded Chris Quinn to the New Jersey Nets for a 2012 second draft pick which allowed the team to sign recently released guard Rafer Alston.

After trading for Rafer Alston, the Magic finished the regular season with a 59-23 record, it was the most games the team had won in a season since the 1995 – 96 season in which they had 60 wins.

In the 2009 offseason, Orlando traded Rafer Alston, Tony Battie, and Courtney Lee to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for eight-time All-Star Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson.

Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction ( ISBN 0-201-55048-2 ) by Melissa Fay Greene narrates the events surrounding the civil rights movement in McIntosh County, particularly the demise of white Sheriff Thomas H. Poppell and the 1978 election of black rights activist Thurnell Alston to the county commission.

Alston became postmaster in April 1902, the community and post office were renamed for him.

The television programme for which they are best known, although officially labelled a sitcom, was initially more sketch-based, linked together by their common setting: the fictional village of Royston Vasey, based on the town of Alston, Cumbria and set somewhere in the north of England.