Sentences with phrase «at racial inequality»

After Justyce McAllister, at the top of his prep - school class, is unaccountably arrested and an innocent victim of police brutality, he seeks solace and answers from the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. in this raw look at racial inequality in America, made even more gripping by Graham's stellar narration.

Graham's stellar narration makes this raw look at racial inequality in America even more gripping.

Not exact matches

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

«There is genocide again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one debases the term to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question remains and festers [Undoubtedly true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»

A look back at how he was raised helps explain why the 49ers quarterback is choosing to protest what he perceives are racial inequalities in America

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

He stated at the launch: «questions of economic inequality are central to race questions [and that] in the United States in particular, there is a racial dimension to redistribution.»

Nixon prioritized ending economic and racial inequality during her speech at the Bethesda Healing Center in Brownsville, and blamed Cuomo's corporate interests for widening the gap between rich and poor New Yorkers.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito assembled a coalition of female activists today to launch the Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at young men of color.

From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York City.»

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

This is especially necessary for white students, for whom teaching about this history of racial inequality is more difficult at times because racial inequality is not interwoven into their lived experience.

Researchers at The Civil Rights Project recommend the following policy actions in order to curb racial and ethnic polarization and educational inequalities:

At the Askwith Forum, «Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality in AmRacial Inequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality iInequality,» on April 29, panelists shared bleak forecasts about whether the country would turn around the downward spiral of poverty and racial inequality in Amracial inequality iinequality in America.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

Fryer, an economist at Harvard, has written extensively on education and racial inequality.

sean reardon, Stanford Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, talks The Landscape of Socioeconomic and Racial / Ethnic Educational Inequality at Education and Inequality in 21st Century America conference.

Throughout her undergrad she tutored young minority students from urban public schools, served as president of the Sociology club at City College and researched racial / ethnic inequalities within the education system.

At 17, I was not empowered to challenge the low expectations and racial inequality that I was confronted with.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

Black adults still face a 7 percent unemployment rate, while the rate for white adults has declined to 3.4 percent.9 As a result, racial wealth inequality is at its highest point in nearly 30 years.10

Set from the late 1940s to 1960s, the series weaves in into its plot lines real issues occurring in the Los Angeles area at the time, particularly those related to racial inequalities and social injustice.

At the California African American Museum, Keith conceived and executed the solo museum exhibitions for contemporary mixed media artists Hank Willis Thomas and Genevieve Gaignard, each of which examined themes of racial identity and inequality in America.

Who can forget U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) bowing their heads and raising their fists at the 200 meter medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in an effort to draw attention to racial inequality in America?

Painted in the immediate aftermath of the 1960s civil rights movement, and at a time of continued racial and gender inequality, Renoir is a powerful proclamation of a new era in artistic representation.

His studies of exclusion and identity examine larger issues of social and racial inequality that are at the forefront of current debates in the United States.

Through her penetrative, forthright, and at times humorous touch, her work subtly engaged with political and social issues, including gender, racial inequality, and labor struggles.

The issues of profound social inequality affecting South Africa seem to reach an apex in the so - called «Mother City», where economic and racial segregation are at their most acute.

At the California African American Museum, Keith conceived and executed the solo museum exhibitions for contemporary mixed - media artists Hank Willis Thomas and Genevieve Gaignard, each of which examined themes of racial identity and inequality in America.

A tour of the show's paintings should include the Fine Art Society, where you'll find three canvases by Walter Sickert — most outstandingly the war - themed 1914 «Tipperary» — along with lively floral still lifes, all from the 1920s, by Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood and William Nicholson, Britain's genius of light At Jonathan Boos, the centerpiece is «The Pigeons,» from 1948 - 49 by the Magic Realist Henry Koerner, which encompasses income inequality, childhood fear, racial strife and romance, all on a pink marble stair shown to be made of brick.

Similarly, racial inequality and discrimination, while far from gone from the world including the West, is rapidly disappearing from the West at least where social and religious factors aren't a perpetual irritant.

Poverty is at record levels, with great spikes along racial lines (10 % + higher than the national average) and for young families with children (incredibly 37 %) as is wealth inequality.

The Lawyers» Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today.

The rationale for such measures is that «historical patterns of racism entrench disadvantage and more than the prohibition of racial discrimination is required to overcome the resulting racial inequality».181 Special measures are time limited, in that they can only be justified for so long as there is a situation of inequality which they are aimed at redressing.

Among the repercussions the tax overhaul proposal can have on the mortgage interest deduction, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University's Heller School recently released a report, «Misdirected Investments: How the Mortgage Interest Deduction Drives Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap.»