Sentences with phrase «about racial inequality»

Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.

The most shaming aspect of this for me is that I was talking about racial inequality in the performing arts in the UK and the need for rapid improvements in our industry when I used the term.»

The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.

This is no Get Out - there is no wry commentary here about the racial inequalities in US society or the subversive ways in which classes are kept in their place.

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That list is comprised of stories about immigration and overcoming racial segregation and gender inequality.

Concerns about professional football players and whether they should be fired for silently protesting racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the Star - Spangled Banner by taking a knee.

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

Nothing gets my goat more than privileged white NCB advocates who think a problem of racial and economic inequality is all about THEM.

She said Mr. Barron's brash rhetoric is still admired in his own district, where low - income residents a sluggish 3 train ride away from Manhattan revere an elected official willing to shout bluntly about economic and racial inequality.

Reiterating a point he made during a speech he gave Wednesday about racial and socioeconomic inequality in education, King said implementing pre-K in high - needs school districts is most urgent.

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

Debates between isolationism and intervention abound throughout the film, as do discussions about the treatment of people of color, such as the political agenda of Killmonger that is closely tied to racial inequality.

This is especially necessary for white students, for whom teaching about this history of racial inequality is more difficult at times because racial inequality is not interwoven into their lived experience.

Domonic Rollins, senior diversity and inclusion officer: Some educators lament that it is hard to teach about racial inequity and inequality, since slavery, the Holocaust, and the Civil Rights era seem like a distant memory to many young people.

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Helping raise the Hispanic college graduation rate is an urgent goal, given the persistently high rate of poverty among Hispanic families, growth of the Hispanic population to account for one in five college - age Americans, and mounting concerns about racial and economic inequality.

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A. By «everyday antiracism,» we mean acts educators can take daily in schools and classrooms to counteract racial inequality of opportunity and outcome, and to counteract racist ideas about «types of people.»

Continuing on from reminiscing about her childhood, she expresses her concerns on the racial inequalities that surface within the Hartford school system, though first taking the chance to say that though she hates white people and does not care whether white teachers hate her or her children, «All I want from teachers is education.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

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Originally focused on improving race relations among youth in Greater Boston, the Foundation's mission today is to support programs addressing inequality in its various forms, including racial, ethnic and gender disparities in both Greater Boston and metropolitan Washington, D.C., and to raise awareness about these issues.

Another tweet from @BlackToLive appeared on CBS Sports in a story this August about Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who has been protesting racial inequality.