Sentences with phrase «at young men of color»

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.

Not exact matches

At 8:45 a.m., More than 500 students, parents, educational leaders and citizens from across New York State will gather for a day - long symposium on My Brother's Keeper, the initiative to help boys and young men of color — and all students — realize their full potential, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Convention Hall, Albany.

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Radford said the organization chose Perry not for his charter ties, but for his ability to be a role model for young men of color, particularly as the district implements President Barack Obama's Young Men of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adultyoung men of color, particularly as the district implements President Barack Obama's Young Men of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adulthomen of color, particularly as the district implements President Barack Obama's Young Men of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adultcolor, particularly as the district implements President Barack Obama's Young Men of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adultYoung Men of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adulthoMen of Color initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adultColor initiative, aimed at helping African American males from childhood through adulthood.

«We've lost so many young men of color — young men who should still be alive and with us today — and it's clawing at us,» the mayor said at the Apollo Theater in Harlem after giving a speech at a World AIDS Day event.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan and other stakeholders launched the City of Albany's «My Brother's and Sister's Keeper» (MBSK) at City Hall, an initiative that will focus on improving opportunities of young men and women of color in Albany and reducing the levels of violence that far too many of them experience.

[11] Arrests rates are particularly high among young men of color: 44 percent of Hispanic men, and 49 percent of black men have been arrested at least once by the age of 23, compared to 38 percent of white men.

The impetus for my capstone was the College Board's 2010 report The Educational Crisis Facing Young Men of Color, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an earlyYoung Men of Color, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an early aMen of Color, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an earlyColor, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an earlyyoung men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an early amen of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an earlycolor (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an early age.

I knew right away that I wanted my capstone to be «Transforming the Educational Experience of Young Men of Color (YMOC) at Revere High School.»

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

He often invites the public to participate in physical reenactments locating current, tragic events (deaths of young men of color at the hands of the police) within their bodies through gesture and voice.

He had been working all of his life in a style he evolved as a young man which at the same time was changing the face of the art world: Abstract Expressionism (characterized briefly as a form of painting which emphasized gesture in an effort to define the flatness and realness of color and shape as a more integrated realization of the painted space).