Sentences with phrase «about racial equality»

The Holocaust and the end of World War II brought profound changes in international law and ideas about racial equality, which in turn began the gradual civilization of Canada's legal system.
As a follow - up to # 1 above is diversity, and we are not talking about racial equality, although that playing field certainly gets leveled on live streaming platforms.
Goodman's and Illich's thoughts about racial equality were tempered by their distrust of the bureaucracy.
Learn Bible principles about racial equality, marriage, and dealing with class distinction.

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But instead, they showed kids racial equality, and made it normal for them, without ever saying much about it in the process.
The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»
Moody's racial woes, as told by these students and faculty members, are about a historically conservative Bible college struggling to embrace equality and pluralism.
It would regularly post about police brutality and publicize rallies and other public events that promoted racial equalities.
That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.
The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.
Using the greatest hits blueprint, one would think any big - time film treatment about Thurgood Marshall, an American hero for racial equality, has to include Brown vs. Board of Education and his ascension to become the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.
The film, a Cannes favorite that rebooted for awards season at TIFF, is everything that the Academy is chasing after both from the optics perspective — it's a film about equality on all fronts, from racial to gender to marriage — and from an overall logistics perspective, since it's an earnest and straightforward true story with social relevance that will be an undeniable across - the - board hit with viewers of all stripes.
«If we have a commitment to achieving racial equality, then the simple act of how we talk about race in schooling has to be thought through.
Nearly six decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education court case established racial equality as a core commitment of American schools, the decision still shapes the way we think about the concept of equal opportunity in many diverse arenas.
When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.
Organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the institution's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the project took on a particular urgency as heated discussions about gender and racial equality in the U.S. roiled through this year's election season.
Given that «equality» can mean many different things, and that its pursuit is often ideologically driven, this is not merely about ridding the profession of any lingering racial discrimination — a goal with which we think reasonable people would not take issue.
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