Sentences with phrase «about racial injustice»

8, 2017), a thought - provoking presentation at the Brooklyn Museum meant to generate a national dialogue about racial injustice.

Little did I know where Ronsel (who didn't even exist for the first several years) and my own deep - seated feelings about racial injustice would take the book.

The country decided we had to have an honest discussion about white privilege, about racial injustice in this country,»» he said.

Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who last year ignited a national discussion about racial injustice and, eventually, the national anthem — has filed a grievance against the NFL, contending that owners colluded to stop him from playing this season.

Congrats to Roger Goodell and Shad Khan on making the cover of SI for pretending to care about racial injustice enough to make more money

Players have been speaking out about racial injustice and advocating for social change for at least the past 15 months, if not longer.

Calling for a boycott for the black athletes who've made it their job to speak fearlessly about racial injustice isn't the the job of the presidency.

Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

However, just talking about racial injustice isn't enough.

The protests were started by (now - free agent) quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness about racial injustice and to protest police brutality.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

He also helps Christians understand why everyone should care (and what can be done) about racial injustice through writing and music at http://AndreRHenry.com

As Twitter rants go, Stewart Butterfield's was epic: a 19 - tweet barrage of comments about racial injustice, the Charleston shooting and a «preposterous» Wall Street Journal editorial that declared institutionalized racism «no longer exists» in the United States.

Not exact matches

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

He was particularly concerned about injustice, be it social, economic, political, legal or racial.

For example, many blacks have spoken out about ongoing racial injustice in the U.S., saying that Ferguson could happen and does happen all over America.

And we've seen, when issues of racial injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned about the injustice of abortion.

We're truth telling about police violence and racial injustice in the criminal system.

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

He's publicly spoken out about a backlash he received from fans regarding activism centered on ending racial injustice and has battled depression.

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

We talked to Trillia Newbell, a speaker and author whose books include United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity, about how Christians can have productive conversations and take action on issues of racial injustice.

She's never seen athletes not only speak freely about ending police violence and racial injustice, but also throwing their livelihoods, money, and bodies on the line for the cause.

But at a time when more and more athletes of color are speaking loudly about police violence and racial injustice, Jordan and Newton are somewhat muted.

This was no longer about police brutality and systemic racial injustice to Trump and his followers.

Dr King fondly recalled their first ever conversation as «about the question of racial and economic injustice and the question of peace.

It's true sometimes your partners, who do like you, can exhibit some surprising ignorance about black culture and racial injustice.

Forget the «X-Files»: Gillian Anderson, one - time «world's sexiest woman», is about to tackle Ibsen in a new West End production Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny took a knee in support of NFL players and others protesting racial injustice, captioning the photo of her and her

-- Adrienne Green reads Nic Stone's novel about a teen who writes letters to Dr. King, which joins Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give amid a growing body of YA books exploring racial injustice and police brutality.

Acting as if Wes Anderson made his film just to commit racial injustices is so strange, especially when Isle of Dogs is clearly a film about tolerating differences.

This is a movie about injustice and racism, that wears its country's most uncomfortable legacies of racial injustice on its sleeves.

Professor of Ethical Leadership at Boston University School of Theology, urges educators to «take a stand of moral courage» by speaking out on issues of racial injustice and teaching students about the history of race in America.

Milwaukee, WI - November 18, 2014 Over 100 people attended a community meeting with Chicago organizers Jitu Brown at Bethesda Baptist Church to talk about education, racial injustice and the need for community schools.

The husband / wife McKissack team, using a setting in the early 1800s in Charleston, South Carolina, has created a scenario in which a young black girl named Charlotte questions her father Price Jeffries, a former slave and blacksmith, about various racial injustices they encounter.

Regenerative Finance has the goal of shifting the economy by control of capital to communities most affected by racial, climate, and economic injustice, and you can read about their work, philosophy, and action on their blog.

That's now obviously elevated, but even early on artists were talking to us about their concerns with racial injustice and violence and the like.»

People can read about it at theleap.org, which is really about connecting the dots between racial injustice, climate change, austerity, migration justice, and developing a holistic, transformative agenda, which I think is most urgent — the most urgent project for progressives with or without climate change.