Sentences with phrase «black citizen from»

The story is based on the narrative of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black citizen from New York who is kidnapped while on a trip to Washington, D.C. and sold into slavery.

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These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».
Only nine years earlier, as we have seen, the Court had interpreted the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to mean that Congress could not bar slavery from the territories (and that members of the black race could not be citizens of the United States or enjoy any rights and privileges save those that the dominant white race chose to grant them).
Because of his father, Barack Obama, as a US citizen, would have experienced being categorized as «black» from an early age.
The worry I have is the more we bang on about immigration — and it seems as though that is going to be one of the big themes of the next election — it resonates with what we understand people are concerned about, but the more we bang on about that as the Conservative Party, the more we will seem I fear to people in this country with brown skin, with black skin, people who've come from outside the UK, they will just think «God, Tories somehow see us as being second - class citizens».
The initial surprise was that R01 proposals from black Ph.D. scientists (including 45 % non-U.S. citizens) were extremely rare.
For R01 applications from U.S. citizens, 69 % from Asian investigators, 54 % from blacks, 62 % from Hispanics, and 62 % from whites were associated with previous NIH F, T, or K support.
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Larry Yust's black comedy focuses on a group of senior citizens who learn they're about to be evicted from their apartment building.
Crafted from footage taken by actual citizens in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ferguson, the film takes an «unflinching look» at the uprising, the protests, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one - day trial, and soon bands of white «night riders» launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county.
She shares her home with two black cats — Pompette, a blind, former stray — and Marquise — a senior citizen with arthritis she adopted from the Tufts Foster Hospital for Small Animals.
Two 50 - foot black glass towers on either side of a reflecting pool project images from a thousand Chicago citizens, creating the illusion of water pouring from their mouths — a modern take on the spouting gargoyles and other creatures of traditional fountains.
Two 50 - foot black glass towers on either side of a reflecting pool project images from 1,000 Chicago citizens, giving the illusion of water pouring from their mouths — rather like the spouting gargoyles and other creatures of traditional fountains.
In these «black jails,» Chinese citizens are held, forcibly restrained and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.
Artists from the 50s and 60s who moved to the UK from the commonwealth, conceptual artists who considered themselves «stateless» global citizens rather than tied any one place, and groups such as the Black Audio Film Collective, whose work sought to unearth the possibilities of being both «Black» and «British» in the 1980s, will show how British art has, directly or indirectly, come to reflect a much wider international stage over time.
Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.
The painting The People (2010) presents a visual index of black symbols from the world's flags where the color black represents the citizens or a specific community.
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