Sentences with phrase «as people of color»

In races that accepted vouchers as a donation, a greater proportion of donors identified as people of color.

Just as people of color need to lead their own movement, so do trans people.

You can't SEE gay, so you can't say that gays suffer the same types of discrimination as people of color who can't hide their skin color or ethnic features.

I was told that as a person of color in academia, I was needed as a role model.

These are all the things we feel [as people of color]-- you should have the opportunity, but the opportunity is just beyond your grasp.

Try to enter into their experiences as a person of color.

For whatever that means for the way we are presented as people of color on screen.

It's no different than the casting of white people and making them up to appear as people of color.

So at every school meeting, I could only think about how our curriculum and policies ultimately connected to the struggles our students — and I — had faced as people of color.

If you go to art school as a person of color, you don't fit into the histories that are normally told there.

Students of color make up 35 percent of the public school population, yet just 15 percent of teachers in the state identify as persons of color.

On issues regarding the broader LGBTQ community as well as people of color living uptown, Rivera is a member of Community Board 10 and was the driving force in creating its LGBTQ Task Force, the first such initiative by any city community board.

In her coaching, Beth helps individuals and families get in touch with their personal narratives, develop and meet personal or creative goals, and explore their personal power as people of color, adoptees and / or LGBTQIA + identified folks.

«There's a large amount of literature on how people who don't identify as people of color become more conservative when they perceive a racial threat to their political dominance,» Hassell said.

On March 28th our partner in learning, NAYA founder and yoga instructor, SINIKIWE DHLIWAYO, will be moderating a lively discussion about ACCESSING WELLNESS AS A PERSON OF COLOR.

I came into the workshop as a person of color, of Bengali heritage, a heterosexual female with no physical accessibility issues.

«I learned very early as a person of color and as a woman — and, frankly, as a petite woman of color — that if you want to be taken seriously, you really have to know your stuff.»

Not long after winning an Oscar last year for Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins joined Criterion's Peter Becker for an intimate conversation about his journey as a movie lover, the filmmakers who have influenced his style, and the experience of finding his relationship to cinema as a person of color.

Connecticut faces a representation crisis in classrooms, with fewer than 10 percent of educators identifying as people of color while 45 percent of their students are children of color across the state.

This includes when players are allowed to play as a person of color but then, no NPCs of color appear in - game, as well as when games exclude racial customization for the player character and no NPCs of color appear in - game.

Attending the Summit & Women's Forum reminds my team at Multicultural Communities for Mobility that we must continue to participate in challenging spaces and reminds us that our identities as people of color and young professionals, our dedication and our contributions have value.

Abortion restrictions have a disproportionate impact on those who already face far too many barriers to health care — such as people of color, people who live in rural areas, and people with low incomes.

But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.

TFA's 2014 corps reflected its commitment, with half its members identifying as people of color and 47 percent coming from low - income backgrounds.

From an emotional perspective, as a person of color in the United States, it is difficult not to take umbrage at the image of a white man, a published poet and Ivy League academic, appropriating the murdered body of a Black man for the benefit of a largely white audience that may be sympathetic but can not empathize with the deceased.

But the statement itself devalues me as a person of color, and it does not foster the racial reconciliation and healing that is currently needed within our churches and the broader culture.

From Vrob125: As a person of color, I have a very real problem with people like Rand Paul, who believes that racial discrimination is a person's right.

So I think when you don't have that, you have this kind of groupthink that turns into a homogenization of the events, turns into us not being at the center of our own story, as people of color or women or what have you, and this kind of smoothing of the edges starts to happen, and that starts to contribute to this whole idea of «ugh, the same old thing.»

«As a person of color, I'm feeling nervous and vulnerable.

Some would want to define «the oppressed» as all persons of color, all women, many children, all those living in third world nations, all those who work on assembly lines, disabled persons, and the aged.

Although 38 % of the U.S. population identifies themselves as people of color, only 6 % of state legislators come from such a background.

«As a person of color and the son of immigrants who overcame a disability, I aspire to also break a historical barrier,» Williams wrote.

But to you as you don't know her making the comment about CPT or Colored People's Time may have been offensive to her as people of color are seen as being late and lazy even to this day.

The above situations have deeply struck me, as a woman, as a person of color, as a person in an interracial.

I thought it would be harder for me as a person of color to convince someone to let me use their money to make a movie.

«There is this connotation that, as a person of color, you're already less intelligent, so of course you would go into work that people perceive as not as hard compared to being a doctor or lawyer,» Rodriguez says.

«Thirty - four percent of the Louisiana corps identifies as a person of color — 20 percent African American — 35 percent come from a low - income background, and 22 percent were the first in their family to go to college,» Orange Jones says.

«We're one of the largest single providers of teachers of color in the country, and roughly half of all this year's corps members identify as people of color,» said Johnson.

Asked how, as a person of color, the show had changed his relationship to U.S. history, Joshua Henry, who played Aaron Burr in the San Francisco cast, responded, «What I love about being a person of color in this show is that it's representing how no matter where you're from, no matter what you look like, no matter what color your skin, you can have a huge impact.»

Instead, «What you want is to give folks an entry point» into the pain or difficulty that can come along with living as a person of color, a queer person, a woman, a disabled person, a refugee — or anyone whose experiences are marginalized and different from your own.

Although people of color constitute more than one - third of the U.S. labor force, less than 20 percent of teachers identify as people of color.

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Of the 25 interns, 72 percent identify as people of color, 28 percent are Metro Nashville Public School graduates and 36 percent are first generation college graduates.