Sentences with phrase «civil rights cuts»

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You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

But it's a fault line that cuts right through black ¯ and white ¯ culture, dividing the civil from the degrading.

It is instructive to note, however, that in the debates of 1964, proponents and opponents of the proposed Civil Rights Act both listed all of the forms of federal financial assistance that would be cut off if the act passed, and neither side mentioned tax exemption.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook, Chair of the Civil Rights Committee and Council Member John Liu, Chair of the Transportation will host a community meeting and speak out in District 12, on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's toll and fare increases and service cuts on bus and subway lines.

The former international development reversed the cut to Rwanda on his last week in the job, despite allegations over its human rights record and involvement in a civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Party members retain an appetite for the tough choices of government, whether in striking the right balance between crime and civil liberties, or being honest about the need for spending cuts.

Paramount Pictures did not send out screeners of its civil rights drama «Selma» because director Ava DuVernay had not locked the final cut of the film, which is due in theaters on Christmas Day.

How long does it take a cutting - edge civil rights law to «work»?

The Trump administration does not have the authority to roll back civil rights laws, but it can decide the extent to which they are enforced and it can cut the staff and slow the rate of claims that it investigates.

Spalding had cut into strips a timeline of the civil rights movement and a third group, sitting on the floor, was putting the events back into chronological order.

The Washington Post looks at potential cuts in agency civil rights budgets, including the U.S. Department of Education.

Shavar Jeffries, a civil rights attorney and the president of Democrats for Education Reform, says any such cuts are unthinkable.

The White House proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $ 108.5 million to $ 106.7 million — a «minuscule amount,» notes education researcher George Leef.

The ire among reformers, families, and civil rights activists over the Sunshine State plan spread to EdTrust because activists figured out that it was responsible for crafting something called Cut the Gap in Half, the alternative to AYP that Florida partly borrowed for its plan.

I cut my activist teeth in the Southern Civil Rights movement, so I've long been interested in how we humans respond to institutionalized evil.

King's crusade for civil rights is highlighted through text and quotations coupled with stunning watercolor and cut - paper collage illustrations.

They introduce children growing up in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, photographers on the cutting edge of their times, young women surviving in today's Afghanistan, and pioneers in the fields of flyinig and space exploration.

Photographs by Gordon Parks, James VanDerZee and Malick Sidibe made the cut, along with images documenting Emmett Till's ravaged body, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists during the 1968 Olympic medal ceremony in Mexico City, and a police dog attacking a civil rights protester in Birmingham, Ala., among others.

Hammons personifies this exact spirit through his creative and personal resilience and that exemplary unbeatable old school Civil Rights instinct that will not cut corners or ignore injustices.

«Civil Rights Marchers» (1988) and «Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die» (1996) span the artist's brief but explosive career and complement the High's existing holdings of Lockett's cut - metal drawings and deer paintings, work in which animals become potent symbols for the vulnerability of African - American men in the post — Civil Rights era South.

The seven - part sculptural series What It's Like, What It Is # 2 (1991), commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and not exhibited since 1992, breaks from Piper's Conceptual use of the frame and grid, confronting the viewer with photographic cut - out figures both iconic and anonymous sourced from movements in American History, from the civil rights era to the early 1990s.

While the civil rights movement gathered pace, she painted those immediately around her, cutting through statistics by putting individuals in the frame.

«Despite the likely impact from wide - sweeping cuts to the civil legal aid system the government in essence made its decisions in extreme haste, without detailed analysis of the potential human rights impact,» the report said.

The event, backed by actress Joanna Lumley and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, aims to raise awareness about the proposed # 350m cuts to family and civil law and the impact they will have on ordinary people's lives.