Sentences with phrase «about racial tensions»

Concerns about racial tensions proved overblown — contrary to the fictional portrayal of the T.C. merger in the Disney film «Remember the Titans» (2000).

A considerably relevant film about racial tensions couldn't come at a better time.

A gripping period drama about racial tensions in the American South during WWII that will leave your stomach in knots and your mind racing.

Spike Lee's provocative film about racial tensions in Brooklyn won the outspoken director a number of accolades, including Golden Globe nods for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor for Danny Aiello.

A social media firestorm ensued in which students used the hashtag #MBIprivilege to raise awareness about the racial tensions on campus.

He was asked a question back in the beginning, and had he not answered it, the media would have spun it to be «President Obama ignores questions about racial tensions in the world today», or some such nonsense.

As we shall observe in noting what the Church can do about racial tension, one of the first steps in overcoming it is to bring people together, both physically and spiritually, so that what seems to be difference can be discovered to be kinship.

«I wanted to try to do something about racial tension and racial intolerance.

Not exact matches

With all the news about mass shootings and racial tension in the U.S. this year, Mexico's neighbor to the north seems just as dangerous, said Vancouver resident Clark MacPherson.

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.

Amid the racial tension surrounding Trump's election and administration appointments, Pew also asked voters about their confidence in his ability to unite the country.

Between the Women's March, the election and inauguration, escalating racial tension and such, there has been plenty to fight about on social media.

One woman asked him about the danger of increased racial tension in the UK due to his comments on immigration.

As an example, she pointed to the success online feminist activists had in raising awareness of the misogynist aspect of a mass shooting in Santa Barbara earlier this year and awareness about the racial violence and tensions in Ferguson, Missouri.»

I care about our city and I don't want to go back to the divisions racial tensions riots and crime of the «progressives».

Those of you who are dying to hire a baby sitter and head out to see an anxiety - provoking thriller about a missing child and the long - festering racial tensions that erupt after his disappearance, please raise your hands.

This would have ramped up the tension considerably, with the Joint Chiefs steaming extra hard and whining about that interloper (by way of racial slurs).

Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.

It seems that, even though the appeal might not be broad, you can explore themes of racial tension with jokes about blowies, Wolf Creek and unfortunate facial tattoos.

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

Racial tensions are heightened as a result of a president who continually makes reprehensible remarks about immigrants from nonwhite countries.

Mudbound (Netflix, Nov. 17th) Director Dee Rees (Pariah) swings for the fences with this adaptation of Hillary Jordan's wartime epic novel about two families in rural Mississippi — one black, one white — contend with simmering racial tension over a span of years.

Collaboration is critical to effective professional development; there may be racial tensions among teachers that no one wants to talk about.

This is a district that is promoting racial tensions by circulating information about -LSB-...]

«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.»

With billboard - size aerial photographs of Hackney and Tottenham, the locations of the London riots — some gleaned from contemporary news reports, others taken from inside a specially chartered helicopter — the Canadian artist reconstructs recent events, raising questions about public versus private memories, as well as racial and class tensions.