Sentences with phrase «about racial justice»

«North Carolina prosecutors convene to strategize about Racial Justice Act claims Main Missouri AG pushing state to get serious about carrying out executions again»

Graphic novels Jamilah King compiles a short list of graphic novels about racial justice and leads off the piece with a brief interview with Gene Luen Yang about the importance of diversity in graphic novels.

I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

Black History Month was always about racial justice and educational opportunity, he says, and the month can stand today «as an example of what it means for practitioners to be empowered and collectively committed to making education purposeful in the lives of students...

In this day and age, you can't just talk about economic justice without talking about racial justice — they're not mutually exclusive,» said Renata Pumarol, the deputy director of New York Communities for Change.

I just knew intuitively that something was seriously wrong with studying theology during the peak of the civil rights era and never once reading a book about racial justice in America or talking about it in class.

Not exact matches

And black people, unfortunately, continue to be criminalized for our moments of courage, for our moments of mourning and grieving,» Black Lives Matter Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said when asked about the differing reactions to Parkland and black racial justice organizing during a HuffPost Black History Month panel earlier this week.

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.»

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.

A new order of peace and justice, abatement of economic and racial tension, the banishment of ignorance, poverty, and disease will not come about solely through prayer.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

I write and teach about racism out of my own anxiety as a white person, and out of my own experiences of learning about racism and trying to find a way to join a larger movement of people working for racial justice.

Moreover, adults have little interest in learning about people of other ethnic and racial backgrounds or in peacemaking and social - justice activities.

It is the confident statement about the intentions of God that all might be one in Christ, that love and justice will dominate political decisions, that all persons will be liberated from the bondage of sin, seif - centeredness, racial pride, arrogance, and despair.

Although he was talking about the state of the planet, his words are also apt on the topic of racial justice: If you look at the data that shows how racial violence has evolved throughout history and aren't frustrated or exhausted, then you probably don't understand the full story.

The same political and populist activists form a kind of «protection racket,» seeking to brand as «liberal» those Christian voices that wish to speak about matters such as racial justice.

RELEVANT spoke with Stevenson about the movement for racial justice and what needs to happen in American society in order to create a more just society.

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

«Andrew Cuomo putting his personal political ambitions over the needs of grassroots organizations fighting for racial and economic justice tells you everything you need to know about him, and it shows just how terrified he is of Cynthia Nixon,» said Rebecca Katz, a senior strategist for the Nixon campaign.

Speaking to about 1,000 people Nixon cast her support as primarily driven by racial disparity in marijuana arrests, declaring that «I want to do it first and foremost because it's a racial justice issue.»

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting was scheduled to begin at approximately 5:30 p.m. and once it did start, a group of protesters from the group «Queers for Racial Justice» began shouting for about 30 minutes, highlighting controversial Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino.

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.

The researchers found that young men who fell into the «high victim - perpetrator» group were also the young men who felt the most disenfranchised - they had experienced the most racial discrimination, were most aware of institutional discrimination, had the most experiences with the criminal justice system as both victims and suspects, and were the most cynical about politics.

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.

Riding out these degradations is hard going at times, but this heady thematic mix of «issues about the justice system, gentrification, power dynamics, and racial profiling» also boasts an energetic «music video aesthetic... to give a sense we're playing in Leah's New York fantasies.»

Considering that Trump has done even worse things, one wonders what Lee would say about those crimes against racial justice.

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Educators often believe that if we teach white people about racism and multiculturalism, they will become more tolerant and supportive of racial justice.

Starting this fall, Louisiana must provide the agency with timely information about the racial background of participating students each year so the Justice Department can monitor the program's effect on school segregation, a federal judge ruled Tuesday night.

Listen to J4J's commentary: «To justify this radical transformation... the proponents of these policies have taken to talking about them as matters of racial and social justice... As the residents of the communities most affected by school closures and charter school expansion, we must take issue with this rhetorical description.

Many make racial justice claims about this aspect of school choice since it is primarily racial minority students who are clustered in struggling and underfunded schools.

In a blog post up now on the New York Times Learning Network, Facing History and Ourselves Senior Program Associate Laura Tavares pairs an article about the recent report documenting the history of racial lynching in America with an excerpt from Harper Lee's best - selling «To Kill a Mockingbird» in order to situate the novel in its historical context and raise important questions about race, justice, and memory today.

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.

The ever - popular Jodi Picoult makes the list with her examination of racial prejudices and justice, Small Great Things, as well as Crosstalk by Connie Willis, a sci - fi love story about what happens when you mix technology and love.

In each of their essays, the curators weave art - historical narratives into narratives about the South as a center of slavery, ongoing racism, and social justice: analyses of the assemblages of Southern artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, or the color photography of William Eggleston and William Christenberry, mix with accounts of the civil rights movements and racial violence.

«Through her monumental paintings, Abney gives us the chance to have a meaningful conversation about issues of racial violence and social justice.»

Join a discussion of her research and curatorial work about contemporary African - American and African Diaspora artists and racial justice.

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.

We envision a world where our private and public leaders prioritize the protection of our planet; where solutions to remedy climate change are equitable, lift up those that are most impacted, and are rooted in racial and economic justice; and where facts win out over fiction and there is universal agreement about the impacts of climate change on the earth and all of its inhabitants.

Usually, when people outside of the legal profession talk about the legal system being imperfect, it is about a criminal justice system that is so suffused with racial bias as to be untenable.

Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Fred Alvarez, chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession and award recipients Attorney Richard A. Soden, of counsel to the Boston office of the national law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP and Justice Dan Sosa Jr., retired Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, to talk about diversity in the legal profession.

Justices voted 5 - 1 to leave intact a requirement that lawyers educate themselves about how to eliminate racial and ethnic bias.

In particular, my work tends to focus on racial equity and racial justice, but we certainly also address gender and class quite a bit and any other equity or social justice issues that organizations has some questions about.

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.

The Racial Equity Committee monitors and provides advice about programs that address issues of racism and discrimination in the legal profession and in relation to access to justice, including programs to increase access to the legal profession.

Listen to them speak personally and passionately about their work for social justice, racial equity, and transformative change.

About: Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) fights poverty and seeks racial, social, and economic justice for low - income New Yorkers.

NYC & DC About Blog The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America's premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.

More incongruous is the video from Attorney General George Brandis, talking about his commitment to access to justice (despite great concerns about funding for Indigenous legal services), and to working with the Native Title sector (despite plans to introduce a bill to reverse the effect of a federal court decision regarding the Noongar people), with nary an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander flag in sight nor mention of his support for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.