Sentences with phrase «against black africans»

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

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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.

From 1849 to 1978, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church) had a policy against ordaining black men of African descent to the priesthood.

The Strong Black Woman actually developed as a defense against the negative stereotypes about African American women.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

You know as an African American I really can't stand black appeasers against there own race.

Nigeria, the most populous black African country, has had a particularly sad history of press repression, particularly under the former military junta headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose infamous Decree Number 4 against criticism of the government was the pretext for a number of detentions of journalists, some of whom died under mysterious circumstances.

Much in the experience of Blacks, of Latin Americans, of Africans, of Hindus, and of Buddhists, as well as of women, favors this ecological view of nature against the mechanistic one.

Various sources have claimed it is a war waged by Muslim Arabs against Christian and Animist black Africans.

Recounting our nation's recurrent history of white militarized backlash after periods of ethnic progress, Dr. Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of African American History at Emory University, surmised in a recent Washington Post commentary that Ferguson was not about black rage against cops, but rather about white rage against progress.

Ghana captain and star striker Asamoah Gyan is likely to miss out on the Black Stars» opening game of their 2015 African Cup of Nations campaign against Senegal, report the Mirror, after the former Sunderland forward was admitted to hospital with a mild bout of malaria.

Clarke, an African American, has spoken out against the Black Lives Matter movement and urban policing efforts.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

Sports News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com The African U20 Championships will be played in Niger in 2019 Ghana's Black Satellites drew goalless in Algiers against Algeria on Friday in the first leg of the second round of the qualifiers for the 2019 African U20 Championships.

A sure, perhaps even defiant Zuma told crowds that he is being targeted by political foes both within his party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), and opposition parties who were against his attempts to bring economic empowerment to black people.

It sounded much like the one that made him at best a gadfly and at worst a pariah in Christine Quinn's City Council: he intends to vote against the powerful Mr. Silver for Speaker, to pontificate on the floor against the lack of black power in New York and to unite the African - American members of the conference along racial lines.

Letter: No South African - white or black - would agree with Simon Jenkins» diatribe against the use of sanctions

«Cuomo is very sensitive to communities of color and African American communities specifically,» he said, referencing the 2002 racially - charged brouhaha surrounding Cuomo's first race for governor against former State Comptroller Carl McCall, who is black.

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.

Lipton and others within the party, sources say, believe running someone who would likely launch a Democratic primary challenge against James, looking to become the first black woman elected to statewide office, could alienate African - American liberals the Working Families Party is trying to cultivate.

Sports News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com The new Ghana football jersey produced by PUMA The Black Satellites will outdoor Ghana's new national team jersey in their African Youth Championship (U-20) qualifying match against Algeria to be played on Friday May 11.

2013 was marked by conspicuous trends, ranging from end - of - the - world cataclysms, A-list Hollywood stars struggling against unforgiving environments to African American filmmakers portraying the black experience with emotional candor.

Kathleen Hepburn's Never Steady, Never Still, a meditative portrait of a mother's battle with Parkinson's while her son comes to terms with his identity, is nominated for Best Canadian Film along with two other exceptional first features: Cory Bowles» Black Cop, a timely satire about an African - Canadian police officer who fights back against entitled white citizens, and Antoine Bourges» Fail to Appear, a quiet and precise study of institutional systems of support available for those on parole.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have the benefit of institutions like the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD) or the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY) in our hometowns, but many similar institutions offer a variety of school programs designed to educate young people — not only about the legacy of chattel slavery in America, but also the legacy of resistance and activism against injustice that it nurtured.

The Black Church has been a cornerstone of African American community and activism for centuries, and its role has subjected it to repeated and vicious attacks from the original Klu Klux Klan of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, through the rise of the Second Klan in the 1920s and the waves of riots and violence inflicted upon African American communities across the country, to the waves of violence against the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Jones» debut is a sensitively written coming - of - age story, set against the backdrop of Atlanta's African - American neighborhoods in 1979, where black children were being murdered by an infamous serial killer.

the National Black Chamber of Commerce (which warns against the risks of African - American businesses being forced out of markets by patent - wielding incumbents);

Perhaps a more effective way to «celebrate [me], [my] work and [my] contributions to not only the art world at large, but also a generation of black artists working in performance,» might be to curate multi-ethnic exhibitions that give American audiences the rare opportunity to measure directly the groundbreaking achievements of African American artists against those of their peers in «the art world at large.

Flashing brightly for a few seconds at a time, the black - and - white mugshot of an unnamed African - American male loomed against the Chicago skyline, interrupting the mundane ads — for sandwiches, lawyers, Hondas — that shared space on the same digital billboard.

There are books on shelves, in file containers along the stairway, piled in laundry baskets — and they reflect the range of his interests: Painting in the Twentieth Century, Rebels against Slavery, The End of Blackness, Invisible Man, Theories of Modern Art, African Art, Against Race, A Rumor of Revolt, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Salt Eaters, Of Grammatology, Black Empire, A Commentary on Heidegger's «Being and Time», The Future of thagainst Slavery, The End of Blackness, Invisible Man, Theories of Modern Art, African Art, Against Race, A Rumor of Revolt, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Salt Eaters, Of Grammatology, Black Empire, A Commentary on Heidegger's «Being and Time», The Future of thAgainst Race, A Rumor of Revolt, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Salt Eaters, Of Grammatology, Black Empire, A Commentary on Heidegger's «Being and Time», The Future of the Race.

Rallying against overwhelmingly white, male perspectives in art history, «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85» at the California African American Museum (CAAM) is...

Renowned South African street art performer Robin Rhode employs his black - and - white paintings to lay down the marker against racial segregation.

What Akunyili Crosby knows (and what she shares with Kerry James Marshall, whose fine retrospective continues at the Met Breuer) is that an engaged commitment to black or African visibility has to work through art history, not against it, and that the most powerful way to redress its injustices is to stake your claim, proudly, confidently, at its very center.

The Alabama police had used German shepherd dogs against African - American protestors (images of which were used by Andy Warhol and, more recently, Kelley Walker) but they also turned fire hoses against crowds of peaceful black school children with spray powerful enough to strip paint from a wall.

The contrast between the found crate and the «reproduction» bottles might also reference the gap between the political context of the artist's boyhood (due perhaps to its black label, Carling was associated among South Africans with the struggle against apartheid) and his current professional success.

Her request read, in part: «Perhaps a more effective way to «celebrate [me], [my] work and [my] contributions to not only the art world at large, but also a generation of black artists working in performance,» might be to curate multi-ethnic exhibitions that give American audiences the rare opportunity to measure directly the groundbreaking achievements of African American artists against those of their peers in «the art world at large.

First, that women should make feminine art, and second, that African American artists should make figurative and «activist» art, works that confront issues of race, inequality, injustice and the long history of violence against black people.

The Harlem Renaissance, with its celebration of African American music, art, literature and history, was in full force, as paintings such as William H. Johnson's vibrantly coloured Street Life, Harlem (1939) and Arthur Dove's Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)(1938, below) suggest, while the latter also reflects the rising force of abstraction, its irregular shapes in varying reds and yellows against a deep black background evoking «red hot» jazz in a darkened space.

Obi Sunt is a forty minute film that combines footage of Pope.L that was shot in Goldfield, Nevada with black and white images from a rare photo album that documents the legendary 1906 boxing match that pitted Joe Gans, an African American, known as «The Master», against Oscar «Battling» Nelson, the «Durable Dane».

«As artists and as human beings, we may encounter works we do not like and find offensive,» wrote Cuban - American artist Coco Fusco in Hyperallergic, arguing against its removal and eschewing the idea that only African Americans should be allowed to represent black suffering.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from Boston.

A report in The Boston Globe discusses the case scheduled to be argued today before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that centers on a plan by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner to try to get more African - Americans on the jury that will decide the federal death penalty case against two black men from -LSB-...]

Some activists have unfortunately used the linguistic differences between the Khartoum government and the Fur people as a slur against Baggara (pastoralist) Arabs (from which the Janjaweed come from) in the former murdering black Africans, out of some supposed racial - based animosity between the two, leading to these charges of genocide that would demand Western intervention (presumably militarily).