Sentences with phrase «black citizens»

Without the ability to vote, they can not remove law enforcement officials and prosecutors who ignore crimes against black citizens.

It helped me understand too how much the fear that black citizens live with today carries the weight of their past in slavery.

We have a higher percentage of black citizens in prison right now than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.

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.

Certain state legislatures got around the provisions with Jim Crow laws, allowing jurisdictions to refuse voter registration to black citizens for a myriad of ridiculous reasons — without any «official» discrimination, of course.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

Interviewing noted legal thinkers like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), the documentary argues that this «loophole» — allowing forced labor for criminals — enabled resentful white society to imprison black citizens on minor charges and put them to work.

Generations of black citizens oppressed long after the civil war ended because of Jim Crow laws is another crime against humanity that has yet to be punished.

While the backdrop is domestic, Mudbound never stints on showing the nightmarish treatment of black citizens long after the Civil War.

Congress had been thinking of giving reparations to black citizens at one time and it still may be an open subject.

In the Union of South Africa, where the government has limited the access in the black townships to FM radio (which covers a small area and can be controlled by the government), the development of small local newspapers has been one of the few ways black citizens can «talk» to one another.

You probably hate Obama because he is an empowered black man, and there is nothing you hate more than a strong, willful, and courageous black citizen.

«You'd think his fellow black citizens in New York would give him a fair amount of support.

Viral videos of U.S. police officers beating and shooting black citizens have sparked a national conversation on how they interact with racial minorities.

You can feel the trepidation of director, Ana DuVernay, and screenwriter, Paul Webb, bleed through in this scene as King and his wife, Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo), discuss the hardships facing black citizens in America and the indulgence of the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

The authors note the wealth of teachers unions and the role that their dollars play in keeping the national civil - rights leadership in line with union priorities — against the wishes of most black citizens.

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.

White New Yorkers protesting the draft attacked black citizens throughout the city and burned down two Protestant churches and the Colored Orphan Asylum.

While the national news was weighted with stories of ever more black citizens assaulted or killed by abusive police — including in Miami this past August — the city was awash with reports of impossibly wealthy collectors buying impossibly expensive art during

Inherent in this mythology are the lack of coverage and the denial of justice for fatal shootings of innocent black citizens.

In Barkley L. Hendricks, like the series of younger black artists working right now, responds to the spate of killings of unarmed black citizens in America.

a stimulant to that race prejudice which is an impediment to securing to [black citizens] that equal justice which the law aims to secure to all others.

President Ramaphosa's recent acceleration of his policy of forcefully redistributing white - owned property to black citizens who do not possess farmland has prompted concerns from leading international rating agency, Moody's.

Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) takes the protest song form to new heights in this impressive music video that exquisitely captures America's crisis as a Police State busy escalating its 150 - year long system of genocide by degree against Black citizens.

Besides my pair of black Citizens (you know, the ones that are in pretty much every post, haha), these are the comfiest pair I own.

These formal legal practices explain many of the broad demographic differences between white and black citizens of our nation, and they raise the question of whether the government ought to recognize the injustices of the past and work to repair them.

On Monday December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr., newly appointed head of the Montgomery Improvement Association, stood behind his pulpit in that Alabama city and urged its black citizens to join together in a bus boycott to protest the indignity of segregated seating.

Yet, Detroit also has a history of honoring powerful men who knew better but still punished the black citizens of the city.

Apparently Anna she skipped right over summer and is ready for fall in her leather - sleeved jacket, black Citizens of Humanity skinnies and patent leather shoes.

This compelling biopic follows Martin Luther King Jr. (played by British actor David Oyelowo) as he fights for federal legislation to protect the voting rights of black citizens and his involvement in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.

The time is 1963 and Molly is just old enough to question the appalling treatment of the country's black citizens by the whites.

When watching similar historical pieces such as Rosewood — which depicted how whites still oppressed black citizens — one had emotional thoughts on how people acted back then.

American Violet Rated PG - 13 for thematic material, violence, drug references and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Set a few years ago in Melody, TX, American Violet follows the true - life events of a town shaken up by a District Attorney that attempted to keep the black citizens down by raiding their projects and making them plead guilty to felony charges to get out of prison.

Don't we have an administration that does not see its black citizens as having the same equal rights that its white citizens do?

World War II is directly confronted in Mudbound, which exposes how America fostered its own version of racial cleansing with its treatment of its black citizens for decades after the Civil War ended.

Known around town as a torturer of black citizens (with shrugging tolerance from Chief Willoughby), Jason makes for the film's most artificial and tone - deaf component.

At its core, GET OUT offers a devastating examination of how white america is stealing the soul of black citizens.

«The Civil War... has tremendous impact in the present day because slavery was abolished, and we've been trying to deal with the racial situation ever since, trying to help the black citizen achieve an equal status in our society,» Gibbs said in an interview with the local newspaper, The Star.

«Orange is the New Black» is an effective crash course in America's history of perpetuating the oppression of its black citizens.

If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.