Sentences with phrase «black communities as»

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

Not only did this negatively impact the black middle class of the entire city, it emasculated the black community as a whole, which still feels the sting of that decision today.

Americans may like to imagine that we left White Supremacy behind with the 1960s, but it is clear that the hatred still seethes within many of our countrymen, and it is very clear that it boiled over in Dylann Roof spurring him to annihilate members of the Charleston black community as they studied the Bible in one of the cornerstone institutions of that community.

Although buying a house in these neighborhoods may be risky, it is desirable, because in this environment black families can be the racial majority in a wealthy area, which is not typical in the black community as a whole.

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Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

His best - known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead shrink and fade away over time.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMablack community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMaBlack Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

Based on data from the American Community Survey, there is a racial and ethnic pay gap as well: Asian Americans reported the highest average earnings in STEM occupations, while non-Hispanic whites also had above average earnings; black and Hispanic professionals earned below average wages in 2012.

Schultz has long championed corporate social impact, but his high - profile push on the issue of race has some from both the business world and the black community wondering whether there's a limit to the growing trend of what's known as «CEO activism.»

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.

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The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.

But co-founder Marian Goodell has hinted at another major change: expanding beyond Black Rock Desert — the dusty Nevada expanse that's become almost synonymous with the festival — and developing a private tract of land as a permanent Burning Man community.

«We see this as a clear indication that the business community does not like uncertainty,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

«As the civic election enters its final stretch, we felt it was important to take the pulse of Greater Vancouver's business community,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

The fundamentalist views of the black community are derived from their masters as when they were allowed to achieve literacy, the first and most important book (in their view) was the bible.

As a gay man, based upon the BLACK communities response to GAY RIGHTS, YOU ARE ARE YOUR OWN.

Dr.King was a social conservative and would be «disgusted» at the decay of morals of the Black community and family thanks to the Federal Gov welfare hand - out system now and everyone» as a baby daddy...

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

The wide - scale and public racism in New York's 1991 Crown Heights riots» members of the local black community shouted «kill the Jews» as they attacked orthodox Jews on the street» is perhaps the most prominent example here.

In the mid»60s, however, the white community outside Mississippi (as well as young blacks in the state) were suggesting that those «crazy niggers» were not crazy but correct in their demands.

As time went on, the black preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rblack preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rblack community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rBlack Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

The black community in America has confronted the reality of the historical situation as immutable, impenetrable, but this experience has not produced passivity; it has, rather, found expression as forms of the involuntary and transformative nature of the religious consciousness.

The ministers, as well as the black community understood this fully.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

As for all the so called stuff happening in the Black community... I'm not so sure thats real.

The Black community in the U.S. can be considered as equal to the Indian Dalit community.

Blacks were considered as slaves and inferior to the White community.

The Trayvon Martin incident was so explosive for the community because it followed a number of crimes against of black people, which were not investigated the same as those with white victims.

He correctly points out that the Miami Cubans represent no monolith - they are too often portrayed in the media as knee - jerk anti-Communist Republicans - but he fails to grasp fully the community's views on a whole range of pressing social matters, including its relations with blacks, whites, Haitians, and recent Central - American immigrants.

If the GOP refuses to budge on immigration reform they will risk turning the latinos into as reliably Democratic voters as the black community tends to be, and that will effectively kill the GOP in the long run.

For me as an Arabic Muslim I have all respect to Obama the person for his efforts reaching out in a community where the whites call him black and the black call him white and he is lost in between as if a third race?

It was not until I left Garrett and Northwestern and returned to Philander Smith to teach religion and philosophy that I began to ask more formally about the relation between faith and suffering as that contradiction is defined in the black community.

The fiscal integrity of the black church and community depend on biblical ethical principles such as working together, loving one another and caring for the poor.

As for why there are so many churches in the black community... it beats getting an education, a real job or not talking ghetto.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

He expected to go to Harvard or Amherst as others from his community usually did, but he learned to his surprise that it had been determined to send him to Fisk University, an all - black institution in Nashville, Tennessee.

For many years, the black church was the hub for teaching, training, employment opportunities as well as acting as a community and social justice center.

The controversy, however, is not over whether Wright is a Christian but whether he is right in saying, as Senator Obama has also said, that he represents the black church and, by extension, the black community.

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

Having long considered the church «mainly a reactionary power,» she finds the black church transformed into a community keeping alive the spirit of martyrs such as Martin Luther King, Jr..

As you all know, I've been a bit critical of the conservative Christian community for «picking and choosing» when it comes to applying Scripture to public life, so I couldn't help but chuckle when Jack Black brought out the shrimp cocktail and called it an «abomination.»

Because of traditional Christian attitudes toward homosexuality as inherently sinful, there has been little help for the LGBT movement from the black community.