Sentences with phrase «race relations into»

Set on the affluent, predominantly caucasian and altogether fictional ivy league campus of WInchester University, Dear White People takes a look at the weeks leading up to a Halloween party that sparked a «race riot» of sorts and thrust Winchester's race relations into the national news cycle.

Simultaneously, while taking the notion of race relations into account, the film also departs from traditional horror tropes that utilize gory scenarios replete with seemingly immortal villains and, of course, the disposable characters that oppose them.

She has also carried out research at the Institute of Race Relations into various aspects of racism.

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Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz has put the coffee chain in the national spotlight before, asking customers not to bring guns into stores and urging conversations on race relations.

Everyone must somehow put together his convictions about such matters as knowledge, the mass media, art, manners, work, play, nature, health, sex, class, race, economics, politics, international relations, and religion into a pattern for the formation of character through the curriculum.

The injustice built into global economic relations that exploit sectors of human race by color and gender disputes the integrity of humanity.

The ACCC has» issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation to Racing and Wagering Western Australia in relation to current and future pooling arrangements with overseas wagering operators to allow for the transmission of bets by Western Australian punters into overseas pools.»

When he arrived at the campus and belly flopped the Taurus into a parking space, a powerful statement about the state of race relations was made.

The race relations chief claimed that what should have been a «proper conversation» between Britons had been turned into «something ugly»; and a «trial of a particular community».

He proposes to create a statewide reconciliation commission to address police / community relations; recruit more minorities into law enforcement; make publicly available race and ethnic data on police actions; buy replacement vests, body cameras and bullet - proof glass for patrol cars in high crime areas; appoint an independent monitor to review police cases where an unarmed civilian dies and the case is not presented to the grand jury, or the grand jury fails to indict.

NEW YORK CITY — In 1985, Gov. Mario Cuomo commissioned an investigation into police brutality after an NYPD sergeant tortured a suspect in Queens using a stun gun, igniting a firestorm about race relations and policing.

Similarly, Jon Kostakopoulos — a public relations specialist and former aide to supermarket magnate and failed 2013 GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis — got into his race against Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright relatively late, and faces long odds even with his name appearing on the Women's Equality line.

The movie may not offer much insight into race relations in the U.S., but it certainly cautions against exporting American values too readily.

Bulworth, Warren Beatty's passionate, incisive inquiry into the current state of American politics and race relations, is not the sort of movie one generally expects to see up on a thousand or more screens in the middle of the summer.

«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.

Yet despite Simon's clear sociopathic tendencies, the film can also be read as study of international relations, and the difficulties of progressive intervention into the problems suffered by those of other races, cultures and even genders.

Set in the future during a war between Earth and an alien race, Tom Cruise stars as a public relations officer that gets turned into a straight up warrior through reliving the same day's worth of training and battle over and over and over again.

It's a much deeper dive into preconceived notions of Black men, into the venality of suburbia, the apparent futility of the Black struggle and an unflinching look at race relations, all masterfully written, sharply directed and fantastically acted.

Finding a quiet spot at a racetrack is like finding a bag of chips in a stoner's house on April 21st, so the five of us (and several public - relations handlers) all crowded into the tiny lounge on the No. 66 race hauler and sat down to talk about Ford's plans for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Deon Meyer's engrossing South African thriller pits Detective Benny Griessel against a mystery that unravels like the threads of a complex tapestry... Because the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, race relations and the legacy of apartheid are an inevitable topic, and Meyer works his social commentary into the story while remaining true to his characters... Thirteen Hours draws to a satisfying conclusion, with answers that prove surprising.

Their nutrient value is fortified — particularly in the case of the books featuring the African American sleuths Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins and Fearless Jones, both set in Los Angeles in the 1950s — by layers of insight into race relations in a time when a black detective's life was never in so much danger as when he stepped into a bar full of white people.

The films produced at the time, as part of Channel 4 and the race - relations industry it came to represent, offer insight into the real conditions, imaginary futures, and contested pasts that come to define race as a lived experience.

«We are always considering, as time passes, that the world is becoming a better place, and although I do share that optimism, I do think that we don't take into account that although we made significant strides in race and human relations, we are still negotiating dark spaces,» says Johnson.

In 1966 the Race Relations Board (RRB) came into existence with a total staff of seven plus a part - time legal adviser: me.

Small group discussions focus on the draft work - plan developed by Reconciliation Australia which is divided into five topics: Community engagement and education; confronting and improving race relations; leadership in the reconciliation process; partnerships for success; and shaping policy.67

The report looks at what has been achieved under the five dimensions of reconciliation shown in the image above — race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance — and makes detailed recommendations on how we can progress reconciliation into the next generation.

In the State of Reconciliation in Australia report, Reconciliation Australia draws on international comparative research into reconciliation experiences in other countries to identify five key dimensions of reconciliation: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance.