Sentences with phrase «against racial injustices in»

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49ers» quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49er's quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

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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.

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

Paradoxically, labor unions have gone further than any other group in America, not excepting the churches, to witness against racial injustice and try to secure equality of treatment.

In his career, Clegg said, he has also fought against racial injustice and worked to make his community a better place to live.

Having a constant ally in the fight against prejudice and racial inequality is not only the pillar of support you find in every great relationship, but also proof that there's no inherent bias, just injustice.

Connecting to Lesson # 1, each victorious case against racial injustice cleared a citizen's name and, more importantly, was also seen as a blow against the system in a battle that needed escalation.

It's a love story set against the backdrop of racial injustice in 1970s Harlem, with Jenkins saying it possesses a «huge relevance» to what's happening in America right now.

Book lovers who flocked to the 2016 Southern Festival of Books last weekend had the opportunity to attend multiple panels discussing race, such as «Murder, Unrest and Injustice in the Jim Crow South» featuring authors Thomas Mullen and Ross Howell Jr., and «Standing Against Oppression: Racial, Historical Violence and Resiliency» featuring authors Jason Ward and Patrick Phillips.

It is an in - depth chronicle of the controversial and revolutionary organization — presented at a time when the nation is once again engaged in struggles against racial injustice.

Dr. King worked tirelessly in the fight against racial injustice and inequality in employment, education, housing and voting rights.