Sentences with phrase «american communities experience»

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers in the general population.

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, children and youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers.

Not exact matches

I'll tell you about my experiences growing up in a traditional American circus and the current aerial circus community thriving in New York City.

Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the African - American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large population of the former and is experiencing rapid growth among the latter group.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

The international mission of Shake Shack is to export the best of the American fine casual experience, spreading Enlightened Hospitality to communities around the world, while generating cash flow to help fuel the Company's growth.

The African experience poses a distinct challenge to the American theological community.

Today they have almost obliterated from their memory the experience of one of the most crushing series of persecutions and defeats any community has ever suffered at the hands of the American government.

As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.

In the wake of Latin American liberation hermeneutics, religious communities and academics in the various countries of Africa and Asia have developed analogous forms of biblical interpretation that work from the particular experiences of those nations.

In reality, Novak notes, «the ancient debate between the person and the community [has] been changed by the American experience.»

In the second book, with Sigmund, he reflected on the broader democratic experience of Europe and the three constant prerequisites of free governments (community solidarity, freedom of the individual, and social justice), but he continued to warn Americans of the complacency, sentimentality, utopianism, and parochialism which he saw in our heritage.

What is it in the experience of Latin American Christians that allows such a community to celebrate wholeness in the midst of «deprivation»?

Team Red, White & Blue's goal is to transform the way America supports its veterans when they leave the military by bringing veterans, their families, and American citizens together through authentic social interaction and shared experiences in communities all over America.

A meta - analysis of American interventions with very young fathers points to quality intensive community - based interventions with a good understanding of gender: the staff (who were experienced, empathetic, enthusiastic, and well connected into their communities) partnered with community organisations and used incentives to draw the young men in; they utilized needs assessments and participant feedback; developed one - on - one relationships with their young clients and provided mentoring; offered a comprehensive array of services delivered in engaging and interactive ways which incorporated teaching methods and materials appropriate to young men's culture, sex and age.

The American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for over 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs.

Brooke's career spans 20 years and includes political and community organizing, public relations, advocacy, and nonprofit leadership, with extensive experience with the NAACP, American Red Cross, and county government.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

The American Camp Association (ACA) is a community of camp professionals who, for over 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs.

«I need us to appreciate the collective impact of what we're saying to others — to the Native American community, to the victims of the Holocaust, to Cambodia, to Darfur, to Rwanda, to Bosnia — who did experience what that word actually is.

Passy's work, published recently in the leading journal The American Naturalist, as «Abundance inequality in freshwater communities has an ecological origin,» showed that freshwater communities experienced significantly lower disparity between common and rare species in favorable, low - stress environments.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

Our society and its schools ought to celebrate the rich history of our communities and aim to build on immigrant experiences to produce the latest example of an American success story.

Invite African Americans who may be lifelong residents or who have lived in your community for many years to speak to your class about their experiences.

«Karen Mapp brings an enormous amount of experience in how to best engage families, communities, and school systems,» said Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

As high unemployment rates and company downsizing have left many Americans discouraged and unsure of the future, community colleges across the country have experienced a tremendous surge in enrollment over the past few years, with a diverse range of students, from high school graduates to older, displaced workers, all seeking marketable skills to survive in a competitive economy.

Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo has been awarded a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a study of the dynamics of suburban American communities that are experiencing racial change.

According to McConnico, one in every four students currently sitting in American classrooms have experienced a traumatic event, and the number is even greater for those living in impoverished communities.

It's important to recognize that the African - American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that — that doesn't go away.

The Valley of the Shadow Project is a multimedia archive that follows two communities, one northern and one southern, through the experience of the American Civil War.

The International Scholars Program is an opportunity for high - achieving students who wish to experience an authentic American way of life in a safe and welcoming community, as well as receive a high - quality education.

Eligible applicants are current or experienced teachers, administrators, or instructional leaders with at least five years experience who wish to establish community - led charter schools that serve Native American students.

Americans for the Arts envisions a country where everyone has access to - and takes part in - high qualify and lifelong learning experiences in the arts, both in school and in the community.

Nanjing Requiem (Pantheon) fictionalizes the experiences of a real - life American missionary, Minnie Vautrin, who stays in China during the 1937 Japanese invasion in the hopes that she can help the community she has lived in for more than a decade.

If you, the reader, discover upon reading Erdrich's novels, that the challenges facing the Anishinaabe family resemble something you have experienced, then maybe — just maybe — your beliefs about such communities of American Indians might make them seem less foreign.

NPBAD was established to educate and foster positive communications and experiences in the communities in which we and our dogs live, and it is an initiative dedicated to restoring the image of the American Pit Bull Terrier.

She's also an avid and experienced community volunteer, having worked with such organizations as the Junior League, the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Association and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

NPBAD is an initiative dedicated to helping restore the image of the American Pit Bull Terrier by helping to educate and foster positive communications and experiences in the communities where pit bulls and their owners live.

She's also an experienced community volunteer, working with such organizations as the Junior League, the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Association and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

As more and more communities reject killing and embrace No Kill alternatives, as the evidence mounts and the success increases, as the data and experience paint a clear and unambiguous picture that we can end the killing and we can do it today, those who champion killing will find themselves on the wrong side of history, joining the losing side that is already on the wrong side of truth, right, ethics, and the hearts and minds of the American people.

For one, there is an institutional urgency to speak to a more diverse audience with painting that depicts the black community, the Asian - American experience, the Latino face, to attract the various people who had been excluded from the museum by remaking the history of figurative painting, this time with color.

In accordance with the Museum's vision and mission statements, the Museum focuses on transforming lives through art by engaging, enlightening and inspiring individuals and enriching community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

American audiences are familiar with conventional notions of Tibetan art, but will have the opportunity to experience the vibrant new representational narrative painting and mixed media installations coming out of Tibet's contemporary art community.

Allison Smith, From Many, One, From Anyone, 2012 Allison Smith draws on craft production from the period of American mid-Colonialism until the Civil War, referencing its populist ideals to create works that address nationalism and community, and the collective versus the individual experience.

The African American Atelier continues today as a viable organization and an exciting community experience providing an environment for visual and cultural exposure, educational exchange and a showcase for African American art and artists.

Spanning vastly different styles and forms, each artist draws upon their unique experiences as Korean Americans and members of a key bridge community, with all the challenges and triumphs it entails.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

2003 The Desire of the Cartographer, Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany Experience, Rotterdam Photo Biennale, Nederlands Foto Institute, Netherlands Transfers, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium Sanctuary: Contemporary Art & Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Black President: The Art and Legancy of Fela Anikulapo - Kuti, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA Pictures from Within: American Photographs, 1958 - 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Linking Collection And Community, MAM — Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA Potential Images Of The World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA Double Exposure, G Fine Art, Washington, DC, USA Colección MAC, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.

The multimedia show «de Aqui, de Allá: Stories in Spanglish» will examine the American Latino experience through performance, a salon, bookstore and gallery shows in a multimedia event to highlight the creativity and experience of Atlanta's Hispanic (or «Latinx») community.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.