Sentences with phrase «black communities need»

Conducted by Reach and drawing on experts from education and business, the report argues the government and black communities need to promote mainstream careers over drug crime and gang violence.

The black community needs to understand that receiving an Oscar nomination is a big deal for anyone, regardless of race.

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«If you really want to create wealth and opportunity in the black community, you need to have jobs and you need to have strong minority businesses,» says Rogers.

«Whether it's Baton Rouge or Ferguson or Baltimore or Minnesota, we need more community policing,» said Cleve Dunn Jr., a black business man and political consultant in Baton Rouge.

I see that this tendency to jump to conclusions that are stark black and white issues has become a hall mark of the conservative christian community that feels the need to condemn anything that conflicts with the traditions they hold so dear.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

You needed to have someone who was able to learn from the black community, then put a spin of originality inside of that, and make it something that was unique for them.

I would say that white churches need to go in communities and partner with the black churches and the hispanic churches and the Asian churches that are already there.

Liberation theology emerged in the early 20th century, sprouting out of the needs of the social communities, particularly the Black community in the United States.

The LGBT community will fight for justice by votes I always remember my black friend who MYsaid, «Clifford, If you think being gay is bad try being black snd gay.My belief is that ENDA rights be fundamental since most people need jobs but the LGBT communty is not allowed common employment rights.

It has but one task: to serve the needs of the black community — and thereby to serve the whole community and its Lord.

One of the greatest lies that has been repeatedly perpetuataed in our community is that black women don't need anyone but themselves.

The top five reasons a Black Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communiBlack Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communiblack infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communiblack women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communities.

The Black Mother's Breastfeeding Association provides an local resource for families in the Detroit, MI area, and a great model for meeting the needs of a community of mothers.

The two sites vary in popularity in different communities (for instance, Facebook tends to predominate on the coasts, while MySpace retains more of its members in the country's midsection and among the young), but many campaigns will need to create a presence on both sites and in some cases on niche social networks such as Black Planet as well.

«So I think for black women, it's more out of a need to see some things happen that are beneficial for your community.

We already know, for example, that members of Black and Minority Ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.

Rev Jackson said black and ethnic minority communities need to play a greater role in politics, criticising their lack of representation in the UK.

Re»... eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white», maybe we need to go a little further, and eradicate some of the forces (by no means all originating in the black community) that say «acting white» is a bad thing.

«Every year Governor Cuomo has been in office, Black and Brown parents and parents in high needs communities have joined with AQE to demand educational equity, and every year he has ignored them.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

«Whether it's Harlem, Brooklyn or the Bronx's black community, [Quinn] needs to be there more than anyone else,» Smikle said.

«Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the Black power» veteran Barron represents the community activists who've long stayed on the outside, railing at black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black and white politicians they viewed as slow to respond to the needs of black people and the black people and the poor.

Heastie said the long string of deaths of black men in shootings by police underscore the need for improving community and police relations, combating poverty and improving education and working «on the issue of guns and those who would use them to steal innocent lives.»

«We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people — mostly low - income black and Latino males — are locked up at Rikers,» said Mark - Viverito.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer believes Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton need to work out «some disagreements» over the Black Lives Matter movement and police - community relations for the city's sake.

Congresswoman Kathleen Rice last week called a private meeting with leaders of Nassau County's traditionally black churches and organizations to discuss the safety needs of their communities in a post-Charleston era.

This installation at the Forest Lane Station in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system commemorates the Hamilton Park neighborhood, built in 1953 to serve the needs of the region's growing black professional community, Campbell says.

«The higher number of black and Hispanic children now being identified with autism could be due to more effective outreach in minority communities, and increased efforts to have all children screened for autism so they can get the services they need,» he added in an agency news release.

This site caters to the dating needs of black community only, and there's a really impressive number of members looking for friendship and love, so it's very much worth joining up.

Something has been poured in the waters of the Black community that has made hate and animosity more understood than love itself... Reading this book will hopefully spark the necessary conversation needed to find the love within ourselves to connect to one another again... Any community dialogue involving healing, relationships, or renewal will find this book an essential tool, thus making it possible to find and totally unlock the love that has been missing between the Black man and woman.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs ccommunity groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs cCommunity Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

They would be concentrated in high - poverty communities, serving mostly black and Latino students, where the need was greatest.

This need for cultures that reaffirm the self - worth of poor and minority children (and ultimately, allow for them and their communities gain the knowledge needed to determine their own destinies) is why historically black colleges and universities, along with other minority - serving higher ed institutions, still exist.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Minority students — particularly black and Latino / a students who live and learn in homogeneous neighborhoods — may need assistance understanding white communities and how to navigate them.

For example, our initial research uncovered an expectation that Black teachers are inherently able to address the needs of all Black students and another that they will be a bridge between the school and community.

As Director of the Bailey - Sullivan Leadership Institute at the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), Offiong Bassey is spearheading the Bailey - Sullivan Advocacy Leadership Fellowship, which addresses the need for more Black advocates equipped to champion parental choice and transformational education reform initiatives in the Black community.

Black communities don't need used car salespeople; they need great transportation and schools.

This is a strong finding, but we need more data on black communities» perspectives on school choice.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

Many Black brothers are in school communities that don't see them as academics, just as disciplinarians and that aren't giving them the coaching that they need to be awesome.

Black communities are constantly losing the anchor institutions we actually need strengthened.

We have far too many Black kids in high poverty and high need who don't have the tools that we've said our communities have been providing and that our school system has been delivering.

We know that Black teachers are eager to lead from the classroom — for their students, themselves, and their communities — but they need the skills and support to do so effectively in environments that do not always hear and respect what they have to say.

Along the way, he offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of «separate» respect and fairness, and his strong - willed and well - read mother, a nurse who cared for all in need — regardless of their position in the community.

Presenting historical parallels to the present, Coates» essay collection examines the recurrence of certain themes in the black community, the need for uplift and self - reliance, debate over how to respond to racism, and virulent reactions to racial progress.

Also, the various programs that you have begun to launch in the Black communities such as teaching Financial Literacy to our people is indeed one of the things we need in order to help change the mindset that so many of us have.

«With our Black Friday special, we want to remind our community that there are many animals in need of a happy healthy home, so remember to adopt and not shop for your new four - legged family member.»