Sentences with phrase «at racial equality»

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They insist that Christianity means advocating economic reforms aimed at greater global justice, or full scale disarmament, or the preservation of species, or gender equality, or racial integration, etc..

But the majority voted, in effect: «No, the university is committed to other values beside the pursuit of truth, and in this case the principle of racial equality is at stake.»

Leaders who * do * affirm gender equality and racial diversity need to stop agreeing to speak at places which major in marginalization and pretend to represent the Body at large.

That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.

... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.

RIP Les Payne, a former Newsday editor and reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner who was a champion for racial equality, who died unexpectedly at his home at the age of 76.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

At one point, Timothy (Isaach De Bankolé), labeled a «proudly nigger» in the book of Mam's Law, reminds Grace of America's sudden conversion to the ideal of true racial equality.

Dee Rees» powerful and contemplative look at two families in Mississippi in the 1940s is a sprawling and often uncomfortable confrontation of race relations in a post-Civil War South that never really got on board with racial equality.

The film, a Cannes favorite that rebooted for awards season at TIFF, is everything that the Academy is chasing after both from the optics perspective — it's a film about equality on all fronts, from racial to gender to marriage — and from an overall logistics perspective, since it's an earnest and straightforward true story with social relevance that will be an undeniable across - the - board hit with viewers of all stripes.

Issues raised by the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wake.»

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

But knowing that Whitehead is trying in this book to call our attention to the illusion of freedom and equality in America today, I think Cora also represents the current plight of black women, at the bottom of the pay scale (due to the double whammy of racism and sexism), and with so many of them also forced to make their way on their own, given how racial violence impacts on black men.

If at present American racial equality is fitfully advancing, race relations remain marred by retrograde episodes like the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and movements like the Tea Party, which signal a heavy national residue of racism.

When I worked on the exhibition «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties» [at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014], people were shocked to find that artists like Frank Stella and Jim Dine had done work that was political, that sold in galleries to support racial equality.

Recently, ballet companies have been denounced for uncritically perpetuating traditions at odds with contemporary society and notions of racial diversity, equality, and social justice.

At JACK SHAINMAN Hank Willis Thomas's archival tour de force, titled «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» presents 100 carefully culled print ads that trace the halting progress of feminism and — by omitting nonwhite women — the even more dispiriting state of racial equality in this country (513 West 20th Street, through May 23).

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?

The principle of racial equality, at least on the face of the law, took hold in numerous ways, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Convention on Genocide, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Special measures, referred to in Article 1 (4) of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, are remedial provisions aimed at raising segments of the community who are not equal to a position of equality within society.

A targeted program aimed at increasing employment of a disadvantaged racial group is a clear example of a benefit which promotes equality of opportunity.

As noted above at para 32, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recognised as aspects of the principle of equality the obligations of States to ensure that no decisions directly relating to the rights and interests of indigenous peoples are taken without their informed consent, as well as to recognise and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to own, develop, control and use their communal lands and territories and resources.

Ivanka has emerged as not just a key political adviser to her father — she introduced him at the Republican convention with avowals of his support for gender and racial equality — but also as the most public face of the family in terms of the future of the Trump brand.