Sentences with phrase «against black communities»

How schools respond to unrest, particularly police violence against black communities, reveals and predicts how that institution serves current and future students.

Not exact matches

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

This month, two housing groups filed a complaint asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate complaints that OneWest engaged in discriminatory «redlining» practices against black and Latino communities.

A protest against violence attacking black communities, the parade was one of the first public marches for civil rights.

The Trayvon Martin incident was so explosive for the community because it followed a number of crimes against of black people, which were not investigated the same as those with white victims.

If anyone thought the black community turned out at the polls for Obama watch the Gay community turn out this time against all of these Republicans.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

Only two presidents have overcome these desiderata (John Kennedy and Barack Obama), and they have run against their religion (in the case of Kennedy) and their race (in the case of Obama), reassuring the American people that they weren't really all that Catholic or all that black — that they were Americans first, and members of their religious or racial communities second.

First he was against it but now his advisers told him he can improve his miserable polls by supporting it so now we have the pro-gay Obama and all his people like Sharpton want to catch the gay rights wave now that it's apparently OK with the gay black community.

A sunken - place theology cries «black - on - black crime» while ignoring that black communities have worked for decades to organize against both peer on peer violence and state violence in our community.

As such, black women have built up myths and attitudes against breastfeeding, especially in poor communities.

There are serious concerns that by banning a substance used by these communities alone, the move will encourage even greater levels of disproportionate stop - and - search against black people.

Fourthly, the black community expects action from the government against racism and, if it is not delivered, will fight back.

The language was strongly reminiscent of the terms used against black and Irish communities thirty years ago.

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(Never forget that Cuomo's 2002 primary run against then state Comptroller Carl McCall badly damaged his image in the black community and there is a concern among some in Cuomo - world that challenging Paterson would pick that scab.)

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When Mr. Bloomberg ran for a third term in 2009 against Bill Thompson, who is black, his performance in minority communities was staggeringly low: just 22 and 23 percent of black male and female voters supported Mr. Bloomberg, exit polls showed.

Even former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, whom Cuomo challenged in the 2002 gubernatorial primary, earning him the long - standing ire of many in the black community, has stepped in to act as a surrogate for the AG against Paladino and also defended him when it looked like he might primary the state's first black governor, David Paterson.

Democrats, along with several civil rights groups, attacked the now - adopted district lines as unfairly stacking the deck against Democrats in downstate communities and said they split apart a predominately black and Latino area on Long Island to dilute its mostly Democratic voters into several Republican districts.

«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.

Joyce Love, a black woman who won the 3rd Ward council seat against incumbent Ron Bailey, said having more diversity on the council could help get things done in minority communities.

It's more of a community - based app that caters to the black community, but does not discriminate against other ethnicities.

The rousing, inspirational anthem lifts up Marshall as a trailblazer, both for the black community and for anyone who's ever been pressured against doing the right thing.

Against the backdrop of oil paintings depicting these events, the prologue concludes by noting that wealth and opportunity shifted away from black communities, where the only white people left were the police who patrolled the streets.

But then came video cameras on cell phones, recording the very acts that have been perpetrated on many black communities throughout the country and honestly, I look at the same song as an honest and powerful protest against an unjust system that at times treats minorities as sub-human.

Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?

Up until that time, some communities attempted to discriminate against black people and members of other minority groups.

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.

The Alliance is hiring a co-director to join our staff and contribute to the building of a powerful national alliance to fight back against corporate education reform and demand investment in sustainable community schools, particularly for Black and Brown communities.

[85] The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

Until the victims of the past are dignified with honest attempts to solve the crimes against them, the whole black community continues to be marginalized.

For me this section reminded me of many historical events where blacks formed their own communities to be «free» from discrimination and violence directed against them but were too often seen as a threat to the white world.

From the editor's desk of the Bystander, Morris crusaded against forces, like the Klu Klux Klan, that terrorized and oppressed black communities in Iowa.

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said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

Dallas Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, part of the It Takes Roots delegation said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

Richard Black at the BBC investigates whether there is a bias against skepticism in the scientific community.

Such a person must be taken to possess knowledge of the local population and its racial dynamics, including the existence in the community of a history of widespread and systemic discrimination against black and aboriginal people, and high profile clashes between the police and the visible minority population over policing issues.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.