Sentences with phrase «as a black man in»

We understand, though, what it is to grow up as a black man in America.

It's about Kaepernick's experience as a black man in America.

As a black man in South Africa, Philander had to cope with apartheid's brutal white - supremacist system on his path to becoming a scientist.

«The MCU has set itself in the real world as much as possible — so what does it mean for T'Challa to move around as this black man in a movie reality that tries to be a real world?»

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»

Andrews seems to follow no canons of visual selection besides those that originate within his own experience — as an artist who reached maturity when Abstract Expressionism was in its heyday, as a black man in America, plus a good deal of native stubbornness about not just doing what's expected of him.

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

For example, the algorithm can hide or down - rank important content because of a built - in bias, as some accused the network of doing after a black man was shot in Ferguson, Mo. in 2014.

In the article, a man with a red tie at a black - tie event was viewed as being more successful than the others.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

The week began with the death of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was shot multiple times by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as he lay on the ground outside a convenience store.

In May, a Chinese laundry detergent - maker apologized for an advertisement that showed an Asian woman shoving a dirt - smeared black man into a washing machine, only for him to emerge as a clean Asian man.

As Dobbin and Kalev point out, «Black men have barely gained ground in corporate management since 1985.

BuzzFeed relies heavily on pop culture references and popular media topics (again, see the «Men in Black» article referenced above), as the numbers show that these posts get the most traction among the site's readers.

Sure, there are pieces that wouldn't look out of place in West Elm, but then there are furnishings tailor - made for the middle - aged man cave, such as a massive black leather sofa with built - in surround sound, a power - reclining feature, phone - charging ports and Bluetooth connectivity to allow couch potatoes to play music from their smartphones.

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).

She was sworn in as attorney general in April 2015 amid riots in Baltimore over the death of a black man in police custody.

The director of «Men in Black II,» Barry Sonnenfeld, revealed that he wanted Jackson to be in the first «Men in Black» movie as an alien (alongside famous faces George Lucas and Danny Devito), but that Jackson refused.

Musk also said in his Silicon Valley burn, as reported via Re / code, that Judge has obviously never attended Burning Man, the overpriced annual hipster love / drug / artfest on the dusty dunes of Nevada's Black Rock Desert that corporations love to sponsor.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

She edits and colors such comic book projects as The Lalas, and has provided design, layout, and illustrations for nearly all of Starlight Runner's famous Franchise Mythology documents, including Coca - Cola Happiness Factory, Men in Black Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe, Transformers Universe, and several volumes of Spider - Man Mythology documents.

These «dark posts» — sponsored Facebook posts that can only be seen by users with specific profiles — included videos aimed at African - Americans in which Hillary Clinton refers to black men as predators, for example.

The company reported solid results for the quarter, which ended April 1 almost two weeks before the incident at the Philadelphia store in which two black men were arrested as they waited for a friend after a manager call police because they didn't buy anything.

written on the side sits on a table as police monitor protestors demonstrating inside a Center City Starbucks, where two black men were arrested, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S., April 16, 2018.

Somebody seen him hangin» around As the old dance hall on the outskirts of town He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask Somebody said from the bible he'd quote There was dust on the man in the long black coat.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

By wondering if Korean Jesus cares only about Korean problems, Hill pokes fun at the issue which was made a media spectacle in 2008, when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright could be heard preaching that «Jesus was a poor black man» as part of his support for Barack Obama.

The two moments: first, Binx's seeing the black man leaving the church after Ash Wednesday ritual, with an acceptance of the necessity, as Binx would have it, of «inserting himself into the world»; second, Binx's own ceremony of moviegoing whereby he seems to come to terms with place but in actuality does not.

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

As time went on, the black preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rblack preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rblack community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rBlack Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Sojourner Truth put it far more bluntly when she (reportedly) said: «Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men,»cause Christ wasn't a woman!

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

Michael Brown, like so many other young black men, had one foot in pro-blackness as he was headed for college, and the other foot in anti-blackness as he was seen on video stealing from a convenience store.

I learned the n - word from my great - grandmother, a sweet, churchgoing lady who loved Jesus and read her Bible and, in the remote mountains of Appalachia, regarded the black man we saw at the ice cream shop that day as a fearful curiosity.

The capitol building was built on the backs of slaves, and tomorrow a black man will stand on its steps and be sworn in as president of the United States.

Every time I hear it, I get an image of an inlecdibry old and creepy man, eyes glinting as he rocks in a chair, staring directly at the camera as the scene pulls back to reveal him sitting inside the house from the Black Sabbath album cover.

Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and «fools for Christ,» its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions» even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world.

Most especially, the black man's having been «cursed as to the priesthood» had made for difficulty as the church expanded in South America.

Many will simply remember Billy as the man in the suit with the black Bible who called me to follow Jesus.

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

But Seyler will be the first to tell you that Cash's memoir of life as a sinner, «Man in Black,» is much better than Cash's Christian novel, «Man in White.»

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

Upon her introduction in Iron Man 2, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow served little to no purpose as a character.

As we've previously noted, Forbes reported that «Despite the fact that surveys show that whites are just as likely to use illegal drugs as blacks, one out of every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared to one in 106 white men.&raquAs we've previously noted, Forbes reported that «Despite the fact that surveys show that whites are just as likely to use illegal drugs as blacks, one out of every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared to one in 106 white men.&raquas likely to use illegal drugs as blacks, one out of every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared to one in 106 white men.&raquas blacks, one out of every 14 black men was behind bars in 2006, compared to one in 106 white men.»

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for ChristmaIn the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for ChristmMan, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmman as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmain modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmman as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmain - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmain a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmain time for Christmas.

They even presented Jesus as a masculine black man with some fight in Him.

In fact, some have been so foolish as to believe and say that a black skin is a blessing, and that the ne.gro is the finest type of a perfect man that exists on the earth; but to us such teachings are foolishness.

When the seer in Rev. 19: 11 sees a man sitting on a white horse, he is fully aware that it was not literally a white horse as distinct from a black one.