Sentences with phrase «black folks continue»

While there are some moves to disenfranchise black people further through fake voting fraud investigations that several states, including Pennsylvania, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.

, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.

Not exact matches

The history of the Israelites» bondage in Egypt and their subsequent freedom is a critical corollary to the experience of black folk in America — except that the Pharaohs of modern times continue to oppress us.

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with a Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

Funny how folks continue to question Obama's religion but are comfortable with Mormon Bishop that treats women as second class citizens and believed blacks weren't human until 1978...

As we have seen with some 81 percent of evangelical Christians (including a number of black clergy) supporting one of the most racist presidential campaigns we have seen in modern history, much of American Christianity continues to specialize in leaving the minds of black folk in the bondage of the sunken place.

If things continue the way they are going, W. E. B. Dubois's eloquent statement of fact in his historic novel The Souls of Black Folk echoes an undeniable truth: «The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color - line.»

She performs regularly as a vocalist in the soul, folk and jazz idioms, and, as a doctoral candidate in African Studies and Art History at Harvard, continues to chip away at her dissertation on the first generation of black South African photojournalists under Apartheid.