Sentences with phrase «as racial injustice»

Frequent educational and dialogue - driven programs around the map focus on issues this project has raised, such as racial injustice, displacement, and gentrification.

Not exact matches

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick originated the gesture as a protest against racial injustice; as #TakeAKnee has spread that message has been somewhat lost amidst the resulting recrimination.

As Twitter rants go, Stewart Butterfield's was epic: a 19 - tweet barrage of comments about racial injustice, the Charleston shooting and a «preposterous» Wall Street Journal editorial that declared institutionalized racism «no longer exists» in the United States.

Female employees, as well as those from different racial and ethnic groups, are also speaking up, sharing workplace injustices, and demanding equality.

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.

«I do think there are better alternate ways to fight injustice [than identity politics] and have pushed a model of conversation rather than confrontation as it concerns racial issues,» says Prof Yancey.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

And we've seen, when issues of racial injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned about the injustice of abortion.

The movement to correct the injustices of sexism can reach deep enough to effect changes in racial and political areas of our common life as well.

As a result of prior injustices, members of disadvantaged racial groups may differ from the more privileged ones in ways that are educationally significant — for example, in health, manners, and intellectual competence.

Critical scrutiny shows beyond all doubt the untenability of the entire network of assumptions upon which racial discrimination rests, and reveals the true character of racial bias as a device for rationalizing injustices.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

Over the last few years, famed pastor and author John Piper has taken an interest in racial injustice as part of his overall Gospel message.

More to the point, he addresses what he sees as the specific failures within the Reformed movement to take racial injustice seriously.

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

concerning this social injustice just as we presently have for racial bigotry and misogyny.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

«Does this change the game as it applies to the crushing issues of racial injustice around us?

He felt that racial injustice was a serious issue but didn't see the quad incident as a real example.

of faith, as well as the patriotism, allow King to frame his unequivocal «no» to racial injustice with a larger «yes.»

Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

In recent years, there have been several examples of what I would call racial injustice with regards to the criminal justice system in the United States, and how certain legal policies, such as Arizona's immigration law SB1070, have specifically targeted non-whites.

CYNTHIA NIXON: I think that one of the most important things that we have to do in this campaign — and one of the most important things we have to do as a state — is address racial and economic injustice.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

I knew of experiments such as the Tuskegee study, but like many of my classmates, I only thought of it as a government conspiracy or a sign of past racial injustice.

Dr King fondly recalled their first ever conversation as «about the question of racial and economic injustice and the question of peace.

Her repertoire included jazz, folk and American musical standards, as well as original compositions on racial and social injustice.

Steve McQueen's «12 Years A Slave,» which is being promoted as a weapon against ongoing racial injustice, had some excruciatingly searing sequences, strong performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong» o, and, alas, much narrow - eyed melodrama and painfully stiff historical re-enactments, including an embarrassing turn from co-producer Brad Pitt as the Good White Guy.

Connecting to Lesson # 1, each victorious case against racial injustice cleared a citizen's name and, more importantly, was also seen as a blow against the system in a battle that needed escalation.

Folayan and Davis take a close look at that fateful day and the aftermath from an insider's perspective as they delve deeply into the media's impact and the community at large while revealing the fact that we haven't made much progress in racial relations, injustices, and overall perceptions.

Acting as if Wes Anderson made his film just to commit racial injustices is so strange, especially when Isle of Dogs is clearly a film about tolerating differences.

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

We are obviously meant to regard Troy as a symbolic black man sacrificed on the altar of racial injustice.

A unit that instills math by taking racial profiling as the subject wins her admiration, but her only evidence for its effectiveness comes from a student who professes, «now I realize that you could use math to defend your rights and realize the injustices around you.»

Many view the election of Trump as a slap in the face, the latest in a long line of refusals to acknowledge historical inequalities, as well as systemic racial and economic injustices.

While many people may celebrate students» choices to protest racial injustice, others will disagree with students who take a knee, viewing the students» choice as disrespectful.

As far as how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine communitAs far as how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine communitas how to work on the problems of social inequities and racial injustices, Collins believes in the power of interventions and education that re-examine the relationships and concepts of color, and redefine community.

Follow along as Cassie Logan, a young black girl, discovers and experiences the injustices of racial prejudice in the American South after the Civil War.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

As in Darktown, Mullen examines the issues without losing sense of the personalities involved, creating a deeply affecting portrait of pre-civil rights America while echoing the ongoing racial injustices that persist today.

Juba's passion, determination, and optimism — and position as a free man — during a time rife with racial injustice make his story unique.

Book lovers who flocked to the 2016 Southern Festival of Books last weekend had the opportunity to attend multiple panels discussing race, such as «Murder, Unrest and Injustice in the Jim Crow South» featuring authors Thomas Mullen and Ross Howell Jr., and «Standing Against Oppression: Racial, Historical Violence and Resiliency» featuring authors Jason Ward and Patrick Phillips.

As in Devil in the Grove, his previous exposé of the corruption and racial injustice carried out by the Lake County Sheriff's Department, King's exhaustive reporting details the frightening chokehold white supremacists had over a Florida agricultural town in the very recent past.

This presentation is a video installation in which RODNEY MCMILLIAN casts himself as politician and recites a historic 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson speech laying out his domestic agenda focused on eliminating poverty and racial injustice: «Untitled (the Great Society) I,» 2006 (single channel video, color and sound, 15:48 minutes, looped; Edition of 5 and 2 AP).

As African Americans in that part of the United States still coping with stubborn traces of the Confederacy, they bear first - hand witness to racial injustice and overt discrimination.

United by a shared goal of addressing racial injustices, they brought Ellison's now classic novel to life with a series of haunting scenes, such as Invisible Man Retreat, Harlem, New York.

Over more than half a century Gordon Parks famously used his camera as «a weapon of choice» to contest racial injustice.

The Negro Motorist Green Book, commonly known as The Green Book, was a travel guide that helped black road - trippers avoid the dangers, injustices, and racial violence of segregation during the Jim Crow era in America.

During the current climate of violence, injustice, racial conflict, and economic and political instability, these works could be read as history paintings for our times.