Sentences with phrase «among black faces»

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Originally, the posters were just a private effort among a group of teens who were tired of seeing black faces shut out of British media.

She recently was among the female basketball players that faced fines for wearing Black Lives Matter T - shirts on the court.

Among the notable rarities tallied during the 24 - hour birding classic were White - faced Ibis, Purple Gallinule, and Black - headed Grosbeak.

In the last two elections, Rangel has also faced challenges from African - American candidates looking to tap into discontent among his core group of black supporters in Central Harlem and white voters moving into the district.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

This is prominent among black BBW, because of the traditional difficulties that they will have to face with shopping.

#OscarsSoWhite No More Frankly, it was an embarrassment that last year's slate of major acting nominees had not a single black face among them, especially in a time so rich with talent of all colors.

While on one side it has Peter Parker gearing up to come at par with the other Avengers — Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Vision, Scarlet Witch among others, he also has to face Vulture, played by Michael Keaton, in the latest film.

Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich are among the actors who play a group of former black - ops agents who come out of retirement to face off against a swarm of young FBI and CIA officers in Red and Red 2.

Likewise, the Madison School District faces potential sanctions in the future for insufficient reading scores among black and disabled students.

Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war — from the tedium that breeds violence and vicious words among American comrades (black against white, black against black, white against white, and man against man), to the sudden shock, the pain, the confusion, and the stark terror that brings soliders face - to - face with their ideals, their religious beliefs, and their morality — in a world where a mother turns her child into a human bomb, an officer sends men into combat only to reap honors for himself.

Among the dogs we met in Charlotte during our visit to The Dog Bar, were Skyler and Pierce, two white Great Danes who — one being half blind, one being deaf, neither having the distinct black markings harlequin Great Danes are supposed to have — were headed to the kind of future «defective» dogs often face.

E-sports are a big deal in Asia, among other places, but the craze is just finally catching on here in the states — so much so, that Activision Blizzard, creator of the mega popular «Call of Duty» franchise, is including a picture - in - picture feature with their next installment of the «Black Ops» series (so you can scream obscenities into your opponents face after they just fragged the hell out of you).

Among the new superheroes and villains introduced to Injustice 2 are familiar faces such as Supergirl, Poison Ivy and Black Canary.

It will lead visitors on a path through an enchanted but menacing landscape featuring, among other things, 17 black - faced lawn jockeys on a crystal cloudscape 18 feet in the air; 20,000 whirling wind spinners; a «waterfall» of shimmering foil - like strips; a thousand or so intentionally garish ceramic tchotchkes; and several million beads, some of which will comprise shimmering mountains.

The current exhibition presents, among others, the sculpture «King», which recalls an Egyptian statuette coated in gold leaf, with a face covered in voluminous artificial black hair that looks like the Black Panther hairstyles of the 1black hair that looks like the Black Panther hairstyles of the 1Black Panther hairstyles of the 1970s.