Sentences with phrase «black people and community»

Positive examples of Black people and community through painting.

Although the commission is not making any forgone conclusions, it will inquire into any disproportionate impact of stop and question, use of force, and arrest and charges on Black persons and communities.

Not exact matches

«What we hear often from companies is that people of color aren't applying,» says Mimi Fox Melton, director of community mobilization for Code2040, a nonprofit focused on developing black and Latinx leadership in tech.

Preventable disparities in health outcomes continue for black, brown and Native people, communities of people who not that long ago may have also been unwitting medical test subjects.

And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn't stay there long enough because people just aren't spending it where they live.

«The business community looks to government to enable us to compete and help attract people and investment, all while building great communities,» adds Black.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Fed by LIES that a Jew had deliberately run over a black boy and MORE LIES that Jews deliberately let the boy die, and spurred on by a pillar of the community who showed up and ranted about «diamond merchants» in the neighborhood, a bunch of angry people went around attacking Jews indiscriminately.

Look how giving more money to people for each child caused the black community to have generations of single mothers with multiple children and no father.

By his grace and his alone, and in the community of his people, even I, who am not black, female, marginal or native, am bold to say, with Jesus, «Our Father.»

They reached the hearts of the people who heard Lincoln speak, they, gave shape to the hopes and actions of the black community and the «fellow citizens» in King's time, and they still have some effect today.

Imagine a community where whatever your race, whether black, or white, or Hispanic, or Asian, when people looked at you, they just saw a heart, a soul, and a spirit.

If I'm offended by black people who open businesses in my community because I believe and promote white privledge, and they know that me, and others, would be offended, should they relocate?

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.

So you can say «black lives matter» and still go into a space where the «other» in your community is a person of native descent, of Mexican descent.

For me as an Arabic Muslim I have all respect to Obama the person for his efforts reaching out in a community where the whites call him black and the black call him white and he is lost in between as if a third race?

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

First he was against it but now his advisers told him he can improve his miserable polls by supporting it so now we have the pro-gay Obama and all his people like Sharpton want to catch the gay rights wave now that it's apparently OK with the gay black community.

The three previous bombs exploded in communities of color, killing two black people and injuring an elderly Hispanic woman.

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.

This woman owned, small business supports the LGBTQIA + community, Black Lives Matter, supports the rights of immigrants and the rights of indigenous people, religious freedoms, civil rights, and this business will always stand for the simple truth that women are PEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive cpeople, religious freedoms, civil rights, and this business will always stand for the simple truth that women are PEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive cPEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive choice.

There are serious concerns that by banning a substance used by these communities alone, the move will encourage even greater levels of disproportionate stop - and - search against black people.

Young people and those from black and minority ethnic communities could miss out on voting for the next government because they are not on the electoral register, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).

It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

The black communities will be horrified when Blair's economic policies not only slam into the poorest people in Britain but also create a base for a new rise of racism and fascist groups like the BNP.

Barron said this was «a first meeting, an opportunity to perhaps establish movement toward regular interactions,» and perhaps to «change [many] of the policies that have not benefited black people, have been offensive and have criminalized them to a degree, which is not reflected in other communities.»

The #NoCuts Coalition is comprised of the following groups and individuals: Community Voices Heard, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Manhattan North District Council of Presidents, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA), New York Communities for Change, The Black Institute, CASA - New Settlement, MFY Legal Service, Coalition for the Homeless, Pratt Center for Community Development, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, GOLES, FUREE, Legal Aid Society, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, CAAAV, Brooklyn For Peace, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Community Service Society, Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Transport Workers Union Local 100, National Action Network, Racial & Economic Justice, Red Hook Initiative, Goddard Riverside Community Center, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), DC37, Picture The Homeless, Greater New York LECET, Unique People Service, United Neighborhood Houses and Supportive Housing Network of New York.

Black Westchester Magazine presents People Before Politics Radio Episode 91 With Damon K. Jones and AJ Woodson Guests: Lorraine Lopez, Hector Santiago, Samuel L. Rivers and Helena Edwards Topic: «Black and Brown Political Power», why we don't have it in our communities in Westchester County and how do we get it.

BlackWestester.com presents People Before Politics Radio Show Episode 027 Your Host Damon K. Jones, AJ Woodson and Cynthia Turnquest - Jones... GUEST: Brenda L. Crump TOPICS: Education in The Black Community!

Black Westchester Magazine presents People Before Politics Radio With your hosts Damon K Jones, AJ Woodson and Cynthia Turnquest - Jones Guests: Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Dr Kenneth Hamilton, Juanita Lewis of Community Voices Heard and Benyamin Bridges of Parents Against Teen Violence

In addition to seeing people in the office on Black River Blvd in Rome and Johnson Park in Utica, Mohawk Valley Community Action will have outreach sites available.

Dr. Raul Vazquez of Urban Family Practice in Buffalo says the risks of exposure are especially high among young people in Buffalo's Black and Latino communities.

What good does it do our community (by this I mean Black and Hispanic people) to have uncle Tom N ---- bitches like you graduate from Ivy League schools if all you do is suck the c — of guys like Mark Levine.

«The failure to protect the progress that schools, teachers and young people from minority ethnic communities have made over recent years risks leaving another generation of young black and Asian people unable to maximise their potential and their contribution to society.

Martin Price, Chairman of Bronx Community Board # 11: «When I reflect on the celebration of Black History Month I think of the common thread of well meaning people striving to better their lives and the lives of those around them.

«It is obvious to all conscientious people that the criminal justice system has had a disproportionately negative affect on black, brown and poor communities,» said Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams.

Atlanta Black LGBT Coalition: «Rev. Warren's hateful opposition to civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and reproductive rights for women, and his intolerance of diversity contradict the values of freedom and equality that this day represents... Bestowing Rev. Warren such a prominent role does not foster greater understanding between divided communities.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Far from being consigned to the textbooks of history, racism continues to blight the lives and life chances of black and minority ethnic children and young people, teachers and communities.

Participants represented the Nation of Islam, RainbowPush Coalition, Africa Ascension, World African Diaspora Union (WADU), All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), the Religious Heritage of the African World Pan African Ministers, the African Community Centers, UNIA / ACL, African Association of Georgia, the New Black Panther Party, The Dignity Delegation, Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta, Sankofa Church and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

«The sentiment continues to boomerang throughout Mount Vernon, and in many other Black communities across the country, that we must continue to question and insist on independent investigations when people die while in police custody, especially in the case of Mrs. Raynette Turner, the fifth African - American woman in the U.S. to die in police custody within the past month.

You have Dominicans and other people from Spanish speaking cultures, you have Jews, blacks... it's probably among the most diverse communities in any district.

«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.

Dawn Butler, Labour's new shadow minister for black and ethnic minority people, appeared unclear today whether her new brief covered the Jewish community.

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

BlackWestester.com presents People Before Politics Radio Show Episode 027 Your Host Damon K. Jones, AJ Woodson and Cynthia Turnquest - Jones... GUEST: Dwayne Brown — President of Mount Vernon Chamber Of Commerce TOPICS: Education in The Black Community!

On a recent episode of The People Before Politics Radio Show, talk show hosts Damon K. Jones and AJ Woodson discuss the lack of outrage from the black community on all the incidents of Police Criminality in Westchester County with no justice or accountability.

«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.

About 70 people from the university and the Eugene community attended Apsell's talk, which included snippets of some memorable NOVA programs and a preview of two works - in - progress to be aired in January, «Black Hole Apocalypse» and a five - part series on secrets of the solar system in 2019.

One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.