Sentences with phrase «among african»

Rail: We've also talked about Alma Thomas, and how little people know about the long history of abstraction among African - Americans.

Through his representational and figurative paintings, Marshall has established an extraordinary body of work focused on the importance of establishing a sense of equality, humanity, and belonging among the African American community and beyond.

He favors some of the most critically recognized artists working today and one of the most expensive among African American artists — Mark Bradford.

As one of the only African - American conceptual artists working in the 1970s, a time when political expressionism was a prevailing concern among African - American artists, Gaines was an outlier in his pursuit of abstraction and non-didactic approach to race and politics.

However, it is not an uncommon theme among the African artists — but every one of them brings something new to the table.

Among the African American artists represented are: Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Benny Andrews, Richard Hunt, and Elizabeth Catlett from Dr. Hammonds original collection.

These new autobiographical works portray the tangled roots of her ancestry and deal with her interpretation and perception of prejudice, often among African - Americans themselves, in reaction to the blending and merging of skin colors and cultures.

A few years after these actions got underway, a desire to gain freedom of expression «from overt racial presentation» took hold among African American artists whose art was defined by color and abstraction.

Historically, the dap is both a symbol among African American men that expresses unity, strength, defiance, or resistance and a complex language for communicating information.

Similar, if less dramatic, trends are apparent among African Americans, the other minority group singled out in the NEA Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, cited in the AAM report.

This exhibition explores its specific iteration among the African diaspora, for whom dandyism is problematic — the willed flamboyance is in total contrast to conventional constructions of black masculinity.

A new academicism has gained in popularity among African American artists, to assert pride in themselves, their ancestry, and life on the street.

Artists Hank Willis Thomas, Nick Cave, and Rick Lowe are Among the African American Creatives Addressing 2016 Commencments

Mission is to improve the quality of life among African American families in Charlotte, North Carolina through breastfeeding education, advocacy, normalcy and support.

Most people consider the claim that blacks are inherently more criminal than whites, based on that raw data, to be pretty darn racist as it ignores the social, economic and legal context of crime and instead ascribes it to some imagined genetic or cultural flaw among African Americans.

Hip hop, as a cultural movement, had its origins in the New York City Bronx in the 1970s, mostly among African Americans, with some Jamaican and Latin American influences.

But as the story began to unfold I realized that there was new element of mid-century African - American life that I was getting into: the role of the black entrepreneur among African - American transplants from the south.

That said, researchers found that in - school suspension rates have nearly doubled among African American high school students during the study period.

California's charter schools continue to demonstrate higher academic performance among African American students.

Third, my greatest fear is that teachers do not distinguish among African American and Caribbean students of color in the classroom.

The Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education conducts empirical research, disseminates scholarly information, examines research - based best practices, addresses critical educational issues, and strives to produce research that makes a difference which informs the development of practices, policies, programs, and scholarship impacting educational and workforce outcomes among African Americans.

In February, Boys» Latin — along with City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell and State Senator and former mayoral candidate Anthony Williams — launched #blackdegreesmatter, a campaign to draw attention to the sorry state of college graduation among African American men from Philadelphia.

Gains were even more substantial among African - American students in poverty, who were 59 days ahead in math and 44 in reading.

Of these latter studies, the benefits of choice were typically concentrated among African American students and students who had previously attended relatively low - performing public schools before they were given a chance to attend schools their parents deemed better.

Since observing this progress among African - American males, Oakland has expanded the initiative to cover other vulnerable populations.

Not only is the idea that American test scores were once higher a fiction, but in some cases they have actually improved over time, especially among African American students.

Among African - Americans and Latinos, it's 1 in 3 according to the USDA.

Among African - American students, 781 out of 5,143 earned passing scores for the 2016 - 17 year, a 17 percent increase from the previous school year.

And support is even stronger among African - Americans, Hispanics, and «public school moms.»»

The schools have also produced success among African - American and Latino males, far outpacing national rates.

He said Louisiana schools need to boost participation, particularly among African - American students, if it wants to close that gap.

Among African - Americans, Hispanics and poor students, that rate is closer to 30 percent.

Suspensions for willful defiance — defined by state law as disrupting school activities or otherwise defying school staff — dropped 79 percent among African - Americans.

The pro-charter numbers were even higher among African - American and Latino families, who overwhelmingly make up the Los Angeles student population.

Among African American 12th grade students tested, seven percent are proficient or better in math and 16 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)

Among African - American students, suspensions dropped 49 percent, and expulsions were down by 40 percent.

It is also important to note that these challenges are more prevalent in urban, high - poverty schools and among African American and Latino students and students with disabilities.

A March 2012 report found that chronic early absenteeism is widespread in Kent County's urban areas, where the percentage of the population living at or below the poverty line is high, and is especially prevalent among African - American and Hispanic youth.

The NAACP's Afro - Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT - SO) is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African - American high school students.

The results are impressive: out - of - school suspensions in one school have declined from 87 to six year - over-year, with even larger improvements among African - American students, from 44 to one.

The closings disrupted already fragile neighborhoods and sharply deepened distrust of the school system, especially among African Americans.

Likely voters have made their opinions clear in polling — 68 percent support school choice, and those percentages are even higher among African - American (72 percent), Hispanic (75 percent), and Millennial (75 percent) voters.

But the percentage shot up to 89 percent among the African American women polled — compared to only 6 percent of African American women who expressed an unfavorable view of charter schools.

Support is greater among African Americans and Hispanics who back the program by a margin of 48 percent to 12 percent.

Higher levels of support are observed among African Americans — 41 % are in favor, 23 % against.

There are still too many NYC high school graduates who fall far short of college and career readiness — especially among African - American and Hispanic students, where the numbers, though improved, remain tragically low.

However, support for charter schools in minority communities rose steeply — from 42 percent to 64 percent among African Americans and from 37 percent to 47 percent among Hispanics.

Among African Americans, the share favoring federal leadership across the three topics is 46 % for setting standards, 23 % for identifying failing schools, and 23 % for fixing failing schools, respectively.

The federal government has found black students are three times more likely than whites to be suspended or expelled, a disparity experts say contributes to lower academic achievement among African - American students caught in the discipline system.

We must do more, and invest more, to address the uneven and inequitable access to STEM education that contributes to the persistent achievement gap, especially among African - American and Latino students, and particularly in math and science proficiency.