Sentences with phrase «as a civil rights activist»

Mainstream religion scholars viewed King as a civil rights activist who happened to be a preacher rather than a creative theologian in his own right.

It is one thing to think of Martin King as a civil rights activist who transformed America's race relations and quite another to regard racial justice as having theological significance.

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

The public spat between Trump and Lewis has had an unexpected side effect: skyrocketing sales of «March,» a graphic - novel of the congressman's life as a civil rights activist.

While there, she clashed as often with Police Department leaders as civil rights activists who accused her by turns of being too hard and too soft on officers.

With a background as a civil rights activist and as an early leader of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Perales would be a plus with Latinos, one of the fastest - growing groups of New Yorkers.

This movie is based on a true story, and is one of the cases that propelled Marshall to his historic role as a civil rights activist.

At 86, Dolores Huerta has been working as a civil rights activist for over six decades.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

A lively biography of the young black playwright who achieved success and recognition for her contribution to the arts and her hard work as a civil rights activist.

Tom Hayden, 76, best known as a civil rights activist and opponent of the Vietnam War, but also author of one of the most influential and controversial animal care and control laws ever, as an 18 - year member of the California state assembly and senate, died on October 23, 2016 in Santa Monica, California.

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Abbott signed the bill, known as SB4, on Facebook Live on Sunday evening without notice, sparking condemnation from civil - rights activists.

«We don't want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,» said Elad Gross, a 29 - year - old St. Louis civil rights attorney, as activists gathered in a park before going to the mall.

We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil - rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to «fix what ain't right» in our society.»

Another referred to Barbara Jordan, a civil rights activist and congresswoman as «Barbara Morondon,» the «archetypical half - educated victimologist.»

German President Joachim Gauck urged Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday to explain her euro policies in a remark interpreted as criticism from the outspoken former civil rights activist whose nomination she tried to block.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

The civil rights activist might be in the same small group as the pro-life champion.

Desperate, angry, and galvanized pro-sod activists learned that if they could make a compelling case that they were born gay, they could become eligible for minority Status as a Suspect Class under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Inspired by examples of American civil rights activists, such as the freedom riders of 1961, HRPM members travel at a moment's notice to fight injustice and defend villagers thrown off their land, persecuted believers of any religion, and the human rights of all.

Civil rights activists have held rallies and candlelight vigils across cities and towns — with Friday, October 12, officially observed as Condemnation Day, seeing massive turnout of people praying for her life.

A first - time candidate, El - Yateem ran with the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America as well as Sunset Park Councilmember Carlos Menchaca and noted Arab - American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour.

The event was organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and attendees included civil rights activist Linda Sarsour; Fatoumata Waggeh of African Communities Together; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and José Rolando Matalón, who serves as the Senior Rabbi at Manhattan's B'nai Jeshurun synagogue.

A Civil Society Organisation, Conscience Nigeria, has advised lawyer / human rights activist, Festus Keyamo, not to be distracted in his appointment as the Director, Strategic...

The civil rights activist has served as a spokesman for the family of Garner — a 43 - year - old Staten Island man whose chokehold death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner following a July 18 attempt to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes — and is also heavily involved in the case of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo..

Dr. Alice Green, Albany civil rights activist and Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice, is on the five - member panel Sheehan has appointed to advise her as she considers applications: «We're gonna be very, at least I'm gonna be very sensitive to what I think someone can bring to not only the court, but to the community at large.»

As we all know MLK Jr. was an activist and prominent leader in the American Civil Rights Movement.

I think it was the highly revered civil rights activist, Rosa Parks who said, «Each person must live their life as a model for others.»

«There was always a focus on the civil - rights movement and it was as if black history stopped once Dr. King died,» said Raquel Willis, a writer and racial - justice activist in Atlanta.

But as Lady Bird spells out for those who have not noticed, he has been tasked with the near - impossible: First he must coax his fellow Dixiecrats into accepting the end of segregation while keeping King and the increasingly incensed civil rights activists from walking away.

He clearly has OCD, ritualistically watching his every step as he enters his apartment, but he's also stuck in an activist mind - set for civil rights in his practice that has prevented him from ever earning a top salary.

Many students became more activist - oriented as the civil rights movement raised the nation's consciousness to inequalities in the American education system.

Rather, the two agencies applied the deeply controversial concept — beloved of civil - rights activists — known as «disparate impact.»

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Founded in 2000 as the state's first independent public charter school, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movement.

It isn't as if Duncan can't make this happen; in September, Virginia ended up revising its proficiency targets after the Obama administration was sufficiently embarrassed by civil rights activists and reformers over its earlier approval.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

More outcry is likely to come in the coming months as reformers and civil rights activists in D.C., Tennessee and other states learn how the waiver gambit has essentially allowed states to damn children through the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Just as importantly, eight decades of court rulings — driven by the courtroom work of civil rights activists and school funding equity advocates — also provides reformers with the legal arguments necessary to challenge tenure laws and other policies that impede the constitutional obligation of states to provide children with high - quality education.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

So it isn't shocking that Ravitch engaged in what can best be called cynical race - baiting (and, at worse, craven bigotry) with a piece she wrote on her eponymous blog bemoaning school reform advocate 50CAN's hiring of new generation civil rights activist Derrell Bradford as head of its New York branch.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

Among the presenters will be former Education Secretary John B. King, Jr.; civil rights activist and former Baltimore schools administrator Deray McKesson; Kaya Henderson, former chancellor of D.C. schools; and Brittany Packnett, vice president of national community alliances for Teach For America; as well as several others.

The $ 300,000 NEA and AFT gave to Al Sharpton's National Action Network in 2014 - 2015, for example, hasn't stopped the controversial civil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behindcivil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behinrights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left BehindCivil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left BehinRights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act.

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.