Sentences with phrase «about black communities»

The 2017 theme, «Being Black Is Not a Risk Factor» will educate, empower, organize, and mobilize us to reclaim and reframe the predominant narrative about Black communities by highlighting the inherent strengths, assets, and resilience demonstrated by Black children and families.

Historian Deborah Willis says of Walker's work and Kamoinge, «The photographs are a rich contrast to the «headline» images that have circulated worldwide about black communities known only as the roughest and toughest neighborhoods to live in... I consider these photographs to be a mosaic of the black experience; they expand our consciousness and challenge what we think we know about black life.»

In the book, historian Deborah Willis says «The photographs are a rich contrast to the «headline» images that have circulated worldwide about black communities known only as the roughest and toughest neighborhoods to live in.

«For the governor to run around here, speaking at his mansion, speaking at church services, talking about the black community and then not call a special election... you're leaving these communities without any representation in the budget process,» he said.

Coogler told us that even before the days of social media, he was aware of the anticipation around an important film, particularly those about the black community.

Not exact matches

He tells iHeart Radio that his track «Family Feud» is about separation within the culture, and he speaks about the power of building wealth within the black community.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMablack community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMaBlack Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

«We are thrilled to confirm that Premier Notley will speak to members of the business community later this month about the future of Canada's energy sector,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

«We're looking forward to hearing about their personal priorities, and specifically their plans to bolster B.C.'s economy and support the business community,» said Black.

I find it laughable that these so called men of God have such a huge voice about LGBT issues but says very little about the crime and fatherless babies in the black community.

Since non-black ladies already know the domestic violence and crime statistics, the community of colour had little to worry about black men running off wit dem uppity white women... but now that da black man is startin to get a taste for the DARK OAK... the community is getting hit hard... the ONLY way to presevere and keep the dark ladies from dyin» virgins is to condemn to hel l any black man who dares to dream (realistically of course) of coming home to anything but Thunder Thighs.

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.

-- hang with Holly and others who are in Raleigh learning from the predominantly black and Latino Christian Community Development Association about organizing and peacemaking.

There are major problems in the black community, and these guys are trying to worry about some else's salvation — get a grip!

It was not until I left Garrett and Northwestern and returned to Philander Smith to teach religion and philosophy that I began to ask more formally about the relation between faith and suffering as that contradiction is defined in the black community.

I wanted to know if the black churchgoing community that make up his strongest fan base — for Perry's films are all rooted deeply in Christian themes and values — are likely to give him a backlash over the amount of marijuana use and comments about the drug in the new film.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions about large black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement — the theory of general relativity.

Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions about large black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement - the theory of general relativity.

It has shaped beliefs about the black residents of Ferguson, laid the foundations for missteps by authorities, and affected the black Ferguson community's capacity to prevent the death of Michael Brown.

Do you really think that your agenda is what black community, as a whole, is concerned about?

In a community meeting earlier this week where citizens took the mayor and law enforcement officials to task about the problem, the meeting's attendees were overwhelmingly black.

In fact, if the Black community committed murders at the same rate as other communities, the US rate would be about half what it is today, and not much higher than Belgium or Canada.

We haven't even talked about law enforcement yet and the effect that systemic racial profiling and killings by police have on black communities.

Bayne says she intends to dismantle stereotypes about Black mothers by presenting a different view of the community.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

In low - income communities, there's less education about breastfeeding, and hospitals nurses are also more likely to encourage low - income black mothers to use formula.

Come learn about the state of breastfeeding in the Black community, how it impacts health outcomes and infant mortality rates and what we can do as a COMMUNITY - LED COALITION to promote and protect breastfeeding in our ccommunity, how it impacts health outcomes and infant mortality rates and what we can do as a COMMUNITY - LED COALITION to promote and protect breastfeeding in our cCOMMUNITY - LED COALITION to promote and protect breastfeeding in our communitycommunity.

And so I took that as an opportunity to write up a little editorial like here is why I share these images and share some statistics about the differences between the breastfeeding in the black community and breastfeeding in the white community.

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

Gillibrand said Sunday that she sent a letter to Sessions inviting him to talk about the impacts the War on Drugs has had on New York's black and Latino communities with constituents who are denied jobs, housing and college financial aid because of nonviolent, low - level pot arrests.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

To his credit, Grossman points out what many in the black community are saying privately about an iconic black community possibly passing politically into the hands of an Hispanic representative.

He talked to black community leaders, who complained about police bias and brutality, and he later had an awkward private meeting with the Chief constable Kenneth Oxford about the matter.

«You're talking about electing a Dominican and maybe kicking out the most powerful African American politician in America in the last 40 years,» said Larry English, 56, the former chair of Community Board 9 and long - time resident of West Harlem who is black and supports Espaillat.

Cuomo spent a long time working his way back into the good graces of black voters after he quit the just one week before the primary, and his camp is very sensitive about his relationship with the black community.

Rice just hired Zach Tierney as a $ 47,000 - a-year community representative, despite disciplining him last year after The Post reported his demeaning comments about blacks, women and Dominicans.

This is reflected in commonly espoused commentary about a supposed «black community» or «gay community», or in the implied notion that female voters should automatically pick female politicians at the ballot box.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

10:00 AM — First Lady Chirlane McCray holds a press conference about promoting mental health in the black community.

«His comments about alleged voter fraud coming from Black, Latino Asian and Muslim communities reeks of racism and is factually incorrect,» said Sepulveda.

«If this arrangement was truly about helping minority communities, both the IDC and the Independence party would support a coalition government with the Democrats and help make a history by supporting the first black woman as a Senate President.»

Some who were at the meeting said Black's levity was especially inappropriate given that she was addressing a community whose complaints about the scarcity of public - school seats has for years seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Other issues included the importance of diversity within black, Asian and minority ethnic minority representation so that all communities felt they had a voice, and concerns about the deselection of councillors.

The Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus praised the «show of solidarity» by Johnson and Sharpton with communities of color who «first sounded the alarm» about the disparities.

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.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

She paints a picture of a broken system — calling out both Alabama environmental officials and the EPA for allowing Uniontown, a predominantly black community, to become a dumping ground for toxics without giving residents information about the hazards.