Sentences with phrase «as black history»

Having grown up attending private school in the American South, among few other black children, Sherald has long been drawn to addressing constructions of race in her paintings, responding to personal experiences as well as black history.

(Editors» Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders, and the sin that so easily....

(Editors» Note: This paper was originally presented on February 12, 1990, as the Black History Month lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.)

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Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

Twitter users called out H&M for serious oversight at best and overt racism at worst in styling a black child in the «monkey» hoodie, considering the long history of the term as a racial slur.

The tech giant's black employee network organized an all - hands meeting dedicated to Black History Month, and there was an all - hands meeting dedicated to Hispanic Heritage Month as black employee network organized an all - hands meeting dedicated to Black History Month, and there was an all - hands meeting dedicated to Hispanic Heritage Month as Black History Month, and there was an all - hands meeting dedicated to Hispanic Heritage Month as well.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

The Wall Street Journal reported in August that Virtu had one of its most profitable days in history on August 24, known as China's «Black Monday».

British financial history now refers to September 17th, 1992 as «Black Wednesday;» George Soros, however, probably calls it something like «Awesome Wednesday.»

British financial history now refers to September 17, 1992, as «Black Wednesday;» George Soros, however, probably calls it something like «Awesome Wednesday.»

, which was on full display on October 19, 1987 (a.k.a. Black Monday), as investors charged out of the market and stocks fell by more than 20 percent — the largest one - day drop in history.

«The TPP is one of the most ambitious trade agreements in history, and as Canada's Pacific Gateway, the deal promises to further deepen British Columbia's trade ties in the dynamic and fast growing Asia - Pacific region,» added Black.

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2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from thBlack History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from thblack Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

2016.02.04 RBC announces 25 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As the cost of tuition continues to rise, scholarships are helping students to offset some of those costs.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The Stock Market Crash of 1987 (also known as Black Monday) was the largest one - day market crash in history.

It may sound silly, but October's history as a month of heightened volatility may also have played a factor in terms of market sentiment; for example, the «Black Tuesday» crash of 1929 and «Black Monday» crash of 1987 both took place in October.

He will go down in history, not only as the first Black President, but one of the greatest.

Let's see, I could find a religion that has a long history of treating blacks as inferiors and cursed.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

I bet you all the average black do nt know the history of the democratic party and JFK not signing the 1st Civil Rights Bill as a senator.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

Rather, to take this radically dissident line of departure from the orthodoxy of the day is to speak what, for many blacks, is a truth inherited from our ancestors, a truth we know as a result of our awareness of our history coming out of slavery, a truth reflected in the ambiguous but great legacy of Booker T. Washington.

For some time now, people have rightly argued that ignoring black history and women's literature (as texts and curricula have traditionally done) has been anything but neutral.

When a mornon kills a gentile, the mormon believes he / she will get more glory and be closer to the supreme god or what ever they call him, and if mittens can nuke russia and china, and they both return the favor, how much more glory can any mormon in history ever have??? Dan thinks Im nutso for thinking about this issue, as time has evolved mormons thinking as now they allow black people in where they never did before.

I guess that means you agree with everything every black guy did in the course of history as well?

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.

You are right in that the choice of a black man for the heroic Samson was indicative of a lack of racist intent, if not also a lack of intent towards historical accuracy, but there has been a long history of portraying the devil as a black person, so you can understand why some people are offended by this, right?

And, out of that history, black churches have evolved a different kind of community of mutual support, along side such cultural developments as gospel music.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Guess old Islam was the first to be a cause for your unity from the dates of the crusaders... Then in modern history there came the «Nazi's» then came the «Communists» but today you have the «New Islam»... they were those who united you and got you to abolish slavery and made of you equal as it is today in Black and White!?

A Catholic school in east London has apologised after parents were sent an unauthorised letter which suggested pupils mark Black History Month by attending a special assembly dressed as slaves.

Saturn throughout history has been represented as a black cube here on Earth... every notice how the 9/11 memorial is one big black cube seen from the sky?

In a black church the folks held in slavery by the evil folks are, not illogically, compared to the history of blacks in the USA.I mean who are the evil folks to be compared to?Wright just wants them to repent and stop their evil.If in the Catholic Church 80 % of the folks do nt practice what the Priest says (Or agree apparently) but still attend why would you think that a protestant would take every thing his pastor says as «Gospel»?

As we have seen with some 81 percent of evangelical Christians (including a number of black clergy) supporting one of the most racist presidential campaigns we have seen in modern history, much of American Christianity continues to specialize in leaving the minds of black folk in the bondage of the sunken place.

As we enter Black History Month, we remember and celebrate the incredible leaders and stories that began to change our nation in regards to «the race issue.»

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $ 30 F aced with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust, a lesser author will offer a picture of Nazism that resembles his present - day political opponents.

As blacks were slaves in history, we are to be slaves to God!»

This gives womanist scholars the freedom to explore the particularities of black women's history and culture without being guided by what white feminists have already identified as women's issues.

By uncovering as much as possible about such female liberation, the womanist begins to understand the relation of black history to the contemporary folk expression: «If Rosa Parks had not sat down, Martin King would not have stood up.»

I'm sharing this recipe as part of a Black History Month Potluck!

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The modern life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.

The worst day in Super Bowl history for Las Vegas came in 1979, on a day referred to as Black Sunday.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.