Sentences with phrase «about civil rights»

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What about our civil rights?

My mother, in particular, talked openly to me about civil rights for people of color (as well as native people of this country, who my mother felt very passionately about... but that's a whole other article), her objections to the war in Vietnam, feminism and her participation in marches in support of these social movements.

While working on my thesis, I learned a great deal about the process of conducting legal research and in writing about civil rights litigation.

The Law Office of Robert Dunne is passionate about civil rights cases and handles every case with the utmost sensitivity and zealous advocacy it deserves.

I studied a lot of theory in art school, but nothing struck me to the heart like learning about the civil rights movement.»

FindLaw today introduced a Civil Rights Center aimed at helping the public learn about civil rights and discrimination law.

How small a fraction did anything about civil rights or suffrage?

The Rivertown Kids Chorus sings with folk icon Pete Seeger about civil rights, social justice, cleaning up the Hudson River, global warming and the power of one person to create community and make great changes in the world.

Right now we're learning about the civil rights movement.

Produced by Southern Routes artist Kate Medley, the films reveal heartfelt stories about the Civil Rights Movement, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Migration, paw paws, gumbo, and more.

''... our ideas about certain moments change over time: our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement, about masculinity, about the role of art.»

That these radically conceived works are entering art - museum galleries — some in the Brooklyn Museum's American Identities galleries this spring, and others in its upcoming exhibition about the Civil Rights movement next year — shows that the canon of postwar American art has come a long way, kind of.

Durant was making a statement about the Civil Rights movement.

I started thinking about Civil Rights and how there was still a white male — black male conversation.

He hears music in Muscle Shoals, in the north, learns about civil rights in the middle and takes part in Mardi Gras in the south.

Whether it's attitudes about civil rights, eating meat, or other kinds of social reform, as a younger generation grows up and begins participating in public life, gradual yet seismic shifts in attitudes and policies can occur.

You can also visit the Medgar Evers Home Museum to learn about the civil rights activist's contributions to our nation's history.

She used historic images and videos to talk about the civil rights... read more

For additional information about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with related documents, visit the National Archives» Digital Classroom Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan.

They don't know because many American - history textbooks and trade books for youth about the civil rights movement give little attention to the events that occurred in Mississippi in the summer of 1964.

YA / General Interest: Lewis» journey from sharecropper's son to U.S. senator, made all the more accessible by Powell's exceptional artwork, should resonate with teens learning about the civil rights movement and hoping to make a difference in their own communities.

The following titles about the civil rights movement make excellent companions to Susan Goldman Rubin's Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.

Please review the latest DOT Civil Rights / EEO guide for information about your civil rights as a Federal employee and the Department's equal opportunity and civil rights programs.

Visits to schools around the state and conversations with teachers and students make it clear that many teachers have found creative ways to teach Mississippi students about the Civil Rights Movement, and its legacy, in their state.

Some school districts prioritize students» knowledge about the Civil Rights Movement in other creative ways.

The training not only gave teachers the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, but also taught them how to pull documents from the archives to enhance and enrich their classroom materials.

All of a sudden the teachers unions are worried about civil rights??!! What a brazen and sleazy attempt to divert attention from their day - to - day «we - really - don't - give - a-crap-about-the-kids-but-can't - come - out - and - directly - say - it» modus operandi.

Betsy DeVos, although questioned directly about the civil rights of LGBT students, gave no statement in direct support of LGBT students.

In the latest iteration of this make - believe history, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown and her ally, lawyer David Boies, wax philosophical about how their campaign to end tenure is really «about Civil Rights.»

Others talk about civil rights.

Find out more about the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), released in 2016, including a separate data story on chronic absenteeism in our Research section.

These critics are missing what's most important about the civil rights group's strong statement.

As for policy, Senator Murray asked a lot of questions about civil rights and the protection of racial and ethnic minority students.

And we have seen a steady rotation of spokespeople for the privatization movement talk about the civil rights of children, including Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada and former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

Celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday last week, the unions were oozing with platitudes about the civil rights leader.

The Teaching Tolerance report shows that states often are not doing a good job teaching about the Civil Rights Movement.

Indeed, if the privatization movement were serious about civil rights, then its supporters would stand with the tens of thousands of parents and students across the country who have protested, been arrested, and used other methods of peaceful resistance to the closings of neighborhood schools, sometimes to make room for new charters.

That is not a quality education when you talk about civil rights for children in urban neighborhoods.»

Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

[ix] Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

Through what she said and didn't say about civil rights Tuesday, DeVos further alienated Democrats who were already skeptical of her fitness for the job.

His Secretary of Education seems to know almost nothing about the civil rights laws enforced by her Department.

Of course not everyone is reading the same book — but we can all be learning about the civil rights» movement, for example, by accessing information in a variety of ways and demonstrating our learning in an equal assortment of demonstrations of skill and competence.

«This conversation is not only about civil rights — or even altruism,» she says.

Recent events in Ferguson have sparked a national conversation about civil rights, and many college and high school students are joining in.

For instance, if the project is a language arts research - based initiative involving readings about Civil Rights leaders.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

Milk, Gus Van Sant's labor of love biopic about civil rights leader Harvey Milk (the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the United States and later gunned down, along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, three decades ago this month), is mainstream filmmaking at its finest and a perfect wedding of subject matter to director.

The sequence about his civil rights opus «Alabama,» which took its phrasing cues from the cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a stirring illumination of his creative process.