Sentences with phrase «when black activists»

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When Fortune talked to them for this story, the two were fresh from their Black Corporate Directors Conference, which for 15 years has been an annual confab that's part power networking event and part activist training.

But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Black activists say they have been portrayed as criminals when they hold protests.

May simply doesn't understand what happened on Saturday, a fact she revealed when she showed no distinction between the black bloc anarchists smashing shop windows and the UK Uncut activists who occupied Fortnum and Masons.

Prominent Arab - American activist Linda Sarsour, fresh off co-chairing the half - million strong Women's March on Washington on Saturday, asked the crowd what to do when Muslims, immigrants, black people, Native Americans, LGBT individuals and women are under attack — each time, the crowd yelled, «Stand up, fight back!»

The stereotype - shattering nature of the opioid drug crisis, both in Erie County and nationwide, has not gone unnoticed by activists in the black community who remember when the crack epidemic swept through low - income, urban neighborhoods in the 1980s and early»90s, leading to a spike in violent crime and homicides.

Austin P. Mckenzie, «When We Rise» The Broadway alum plays a young LGBT activist in Dustin Lance Black's chronicle of the early days of the gay movement.

Derrick, a scholar and activist who had been the first Black tenured law professor at Harvard University, explained that Black people in this country have made progress only when our interests converged with the interests of people in power.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

As Cecil B. Moore, a legendary Philly activist, once frustratedly (but accurately) said, «Often when I get a Black man a good job, I make another White man.»

When Evelyn's activist grandmother arrives from Puerto Rico in 1969, the 14 - year - old is inspired to join the Young Lords, who are working closely with the Black Panthers.

The hero is not a rich white man but a poor black kid in the South, Eddie, whose young life unravels when his activist father is murdered.

The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self - proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas.

A U.S. magistrate has found a Santa Barbara environmental activist not guilty of violating federal law two years ago, when he allegedly fed black rats on Anacapa Island vitamin pellets to counteract poison that park rangers dropped from helicopters to exterminate the rodents.

The image has a particularly complex resonance not just in the context of St. Louis, where police violence led to Black Lives Matter's becoming a national activist movement, but also in light of President Trump's recent urging that police get physically tougher when making arrests.

At a time when being black meant being keenly aware of his race and place within society, Lewis traversed both the Abstract Expressionist sphere and that of black activists.

When writing his seminal work, «The Souls of Black Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populatBlack Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populatblack advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populations.

Gore got himself into trouble with black activists last month when he compared the fight against global warming to the emancipation of black slaves.

As far as Greenpeace actions go, this one was pretty tame — I'd been tipped off by organizers, so I was already inside the Fifth Avenue Apple store when a small parade of activists barged through the front doors and released dozens of black balloons.