Sentences with phrase «against african american»

The use of credit histories also discriminates against African American and Latino job applicants, which I'm sure is why the EEOC is interested today.

Governor Malloy's administration approved «cut scores» that will discriminate against African American and Latino children pegging as many as 75 percent as failures.

The basic skills tests required for entry into teacher preparation in the state — only a small part of the selectivity measures described above — have recently come under fire for being biased against African American and Latino test takers, as their passage rates are significantly lower than those of white test takers.

Another one of the great achievements in this past Bronx Primary Election season is that there were no Hispanic candidates pitted against any African American incumbents.

And both Catania and Schwartz are up against the African American Democrat Muriel Bowser, who won the endorsement of the local gay Democratic club.

It's not (although if you want to make a case for systemic discrimination against African American women as a factor I might listen — clearly, though, this is not what you're getting at).

Today, abortion remains legal while a series of national stories involving police brutality against African American men and women have revealed to many another layer of inequality within the American criminal justice system.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

And it pushed Airbnb in 2016 to address accusations that hosts on the site were discriminating against African American renters.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

Best Analysis: Fania Davis with «This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans»

As Ta - Nehisi Coates documented recently in his long and compelling cover story for The Atlantic, «The Case for Reparations,» the government of the United States for centuries has perpetuated systemic injustice against African Americans.

The offensive remark referred to the protests sweeping the NFL in response to violence against African Americans, with teammates taking a knee instead of standing during the national anthem.

How would America feel if a business came out against African Americans and donated to causes in support of segregation?

Each week, I shared some of the tragic history of the church in how we have sinned against African Americans, Immigrants, Women, and the LGBTQ community.

Ok people let's use this same pathetic logic against African Americans and women, they were both view as inferior by prejudice bigots similar to Bob.

Actually, the party that has been generally against African Americans has been the Democrat Party.

A black Republican Senate hopeful denounced police discrimination against African Americans on Friday while calling for political unity and respect for law enforcement in the wake of shootings in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas.

While some express frustrations with Rangel privately, advocates stress that they have no desire to pit Latinos against African Americans and that one seat should not come at the expense of another.

And are any of them biased against African Americans or other minority groups?

In the late 1980s, researchers across the United States began reporting a link between discrimination against African Americans and poor cardiovascular health within the African American population.

For example, the majority of studies involved interpersonal discrimination against African Americans, such as being treated poorly in a store or being called a name.

NIH Director Francis Collins was shaken by the results; one possible explanation was that peer reviewers might have an unconscious bias against African Americans, he said.

In earlier phases of the study — published in the American Journal of Public Health and the Annals of Family Medicine — the research team found that about two - thirds of the participating doctors had varying levels of «implicit,» or unconscious, bias against African Americans or Latinos.

Instead, Get Out opened when discussion about police brutality against African Americans was rife, and there was a surge of neo-Nazis and hate crimes.

And I think we're in a dynamic where we're only talking about police violence and we need to be talking about violence against African Americans period.

Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.

Using Brawley's complexly distressing story as an armature, Oates builds her own gripping tale of how the horrific legacy of slavery has poisoned family relationships and fueled police brutality against African Americans.

In 2015, in response to the countless instances of police brutality against African Americans, Ojih Odutola conceptualized a series, The Treatment, to challenge whiteness as concept.

American - born Catlett's work blends art and social consciousness while confronting the most disturbing injustices against African Americans.

Title VII was enacted to counter social norms that supported widespread discrimination against African Americans.

In particular, the EEOC is concerned with the potential adverse impact against African Americans and Hispanics when employers use arrest or conviction records in the hiring process.

Two commissioners of the United States Commission on Civil Rights recently wrote to the EEOC with some remarkable findings that the use of employment criminal records may actually reduce discrimination against African Americans — men, in particular: Employers who check criminal records are more likely to hire African American men.

Two commissioners of the United States Commission on Civil Rights recently wrote to the EEOC with some remarkable findings that the use of employment criminal records may actually reduce discrimination against African Americans — men, in particular:

In the sale of homes over that period, there was a 41 percent decrease in discrimination against African Americans and a 26 percent decrease in discrimination against Hispanics, according to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

Even the Emancipation Proclamation didn't end the injustices committed against African Americans.

Not exact matches

The Supreme Court decided against the plaintiff Maetta Vance, an African - American kitchen worker.

Most state election officials scoffed at the idea, while Trump critics described his obsession as thinly veiled racism against Hispanic and African - American voters.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

«This time, however, the order prohibits discrimination against gay Americans, as opposed to the 1965 order that prohibited discrimination against African - Americans,» says Kaplan.

The fight coincided with Trump's criticism of NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as a gesture of protest against police profiling of African - Americans.

The report showed that Cruz had written a racial epithet against African - Americans and a Nazi symbol on his book bag, which his mother had forced him to erase.

I've also been surprised by the number of voters who see it as a political movie — a valorization of the marginalized (a mute woman, a gay man, an African - American woman, and a fish dude) against the forces of Michael Shannon and his ilk.

An argument against my position, of course, is having African - American soldiers serving at forts named for very or even fantically pro-slavery men (not Lee [although he was okay with slavery], but check out some of the others).

A few decades ago, this would have been about groups» right to discriminate against African - Americans, but we've moved past that.

against the kid who ran over the African American man and killed him with the pickup truck.

This was also around the same time that african american football players were planning to boycott playing against BYU football.

African churches must sometimes choose between buckling under pressure from the Euro - American church and standing on their rights as partners and pushing against the hands that tie the strings.

The story of early African - American Christianity proves the power of the Resurrection against oppression.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.