When female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you
write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whole.
As children get older and begin to pay attention to, and receive more
messages about people of color in TV shows, advertisements and movies that are not always positive or affirming, this basis you created will become especially important.
Racial microaggressions are daily verbal, behavioral or environmental messages that communicate harmful slights and
insults about people of color.
«Organizations such as The Surge Institute, Latinos for Education and EdLOC are just as passionate as the Movement for Black Lives
about people of color leading change.
By highlighting the little - known lives of three black women who worked for NASA during the early years of the space program, the film emphasized the potential for historical stories
about people of color who made important contributions without much credit.
In other words, «What is it about our environment that not only is unwelcoming to people of color in terms of what we
think about people of color, but it's unwelcoming to people of color because we keep whiteness at the center?»
Tomorrow evening is also the kick - off for the Roxbury International Film Festival, the largest New England festival dedicated to celebrating film by and
about people of color.
ImageNation Cinema Foundation is a Harlem - based media arts organization, founded with the goal of establishing a chain of art - house cinemas, dedicated to progressive media by and
about people of color.
I am very excited by the increase in the percentages of children's books by and
about people of color.
Even now, in 2014, the number of titles written by or
about people of color is a disgrace.
Especially with the social media backlash against our new president's conservative viewpoints, you will see the publishing industry double down on their selection of books by and
about people of color, the LGBTQ community, and others whose voices and stories we have not heard much from the straight white publishing world.
New figures about children's books by and
about people of color have been released.
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