Sentences with phrase «black communities because»

Though the overall figures can in no way be compared to those of the US, we can compare the distrust which has grown up in black communities because of the closing of ranks, secrecy and lack of accountability which so often follows a death.

Isolated even from the black community because of the infanticide, Sethe barely survives both histories.

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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.

And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn't stay there long enough because people just aren't spending it where they live.

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.

There have been many statments made recently implying that the black community is almost obligated to vote for Obama...??? If he is being voted for because of the color of his skin, we are moving backwards.

We're not going to change just because members of the black community scream racism every time it's convenient!

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.

If I'm offended by black people who open businesses in my community because I believe and promote white privledge, and they know that me, and others, would be offended, should they relocate?

Through the work primarily of feminist christians, I have been led to Sophia / Wisdom, to «Christa / community,» to Hagar the slave woman, to Jephthah's daughter and those who fight back on her behalf: images that are redemptive because they are dark, images of black or marginalized women, vilified, trivialized, rejected, silenced — and resisting their oppression and that of their sisters.

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Because local autonomy and states rights became largely synonymous with the rights of Southern whites to enslave and, subsequently, segregate Blacks, Protestants committed to humane Christian values turned to the power of the national government to override the autonomy of local communities and states.

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

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

I don't understand the hatred between some blacks and the Jewish community because I remember the Levys and I remember the great rabbi who stood with D. A. Holmes in Kansas City way before Martin Luther King, Jr., brought that kind of ecumenicity.

We had so much hope in our communities where I come from because we had a black president, and that was a first.

Because of breastfeeding's well - documented benefits to both baby and mother, many blactavists — Black Lactation Activists, such as Kimberly Seals Allers [158] advocate and support breastfeeding in the African - American community.

Young people and those from black and minority ethnic communities could miss out on voting for the next government because they are not on the electoral register, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).

Gillibrand said Sunday that she sent a letter to Sessions inviting him to talk about the impacts the War on Drugs has had on New York's black and Latino communities with constituents who are denied jobs, housing and college financial aid because of nonviolent, low - level pot arrests.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

«What we see as [Harlem's] demise is a reflection of its success, because it's no longer carrying the weight of the black community on its own,» said State Sen. Bill Perkins, who represents Harlem.

«As a New Yorker, I am black, I am gay, I am disabled, I am a woman seeking to control her health and her choices because as a New Yorker we are one community and the New York community is composed of all of the above.»

Going back to his hometown for this historic moment was symbolic to Obama because the city is where he worked as a young community organizer and where eight years ago he declared victory to become the country's first black president.

A black Hempstead Village cop hoping for a sergeant promotions said at community meeting last night he fears he won't get a fair shot at moving up because of his race.

Mr. Green, president of a group of pastors named Mobilizing Preachers and Community, said he rejected Mr. Cuomo's first request to introduce him at a black church a week ago in part because he is unhappy with the governor's record on minority contracting.

«My popularity in the black community, when I became governor, was 91 percent and by the beginning of 2009 my popularity in the black community had dropped to 54 percent because there has been a resistance to marriage equality such as there might be right here,» Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, said at a forum hosted by JP Updates, a Jewish news website.

No running mate could help erase Cuomo's record, he said, replying when asked whom Cuomo should select as his partner, «I don't know, but it really doesn't matter because he's done nothing we can really point to that supported the black community.»

Critics of these protests have attributed police shootings to «bad apples» within police departments, or argued more black victims die at the hands of police because higher rates of violent crime in black communities lead to more interactions with police.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

Musser: I think the scientific community and science journalist [s] bear a little bit of [the] responsibility for that perception among the public because we always talk about the LHC as recreating conditions not seen since the big bang, and you would therefore think if there hasn't been an energy level like that seen since the big bang, then all the phenomenon of the big bang might be unleashed upon us; these black holes, possibly being one, because people do talk about black holes having been created in the early universe.

AdultFriendFinder (AFF) and BeNaughty are fantastic hookup apps for black singles because they are both considered among the world's largest sex and swinger community.

The black community celebrates and reinforces male dominance, but it gets a little sketchy when the woman who is supposed to be «submissive» earns $ 100,000 and her husband, who because of right of his phallus, gets to call the shots, earns $ 0 - $ $ 30,000.

Because of the decline of two - parent families in the black community?

In a 2012 article, «Civil Rights, Charter Schools, and Lessons to Be Learned,» Black suggests that charter schools have succeeded because of their ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data - based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local communities.

Arguing that most black professionals leave the field of education because they feel isolated, Shaw suggested that organizations should offer space for peer development to build community.

While the black community was hit harder by the firings because so many teachers were African American, the researchers did not find a racial disparity in who was rehired after the storm.

I realize now that part of the reason that I never felt pressed to attend, was because I had been privileged to work in school communities (mostly) that believed in me as a Black male educator, that were full of Black men choosing to show up excellent for the students that we served, and that supported my growth.

You suggest, Mr. Murphy, that the state has unfairly targeted these four districts because community members are mostly Black and Brown.

New York City claimed it did not segregate its projects, but Woodside and similar complexes in white neighborhoods accepted only a token few black tenants because Housing Authority policy was to respect «existing community patterns.»

It's not a huge disparity, but Ervin says hiring more black teachers is a priority because they have the lowest retention rate in the district and often feel overwhelmed helping students of color work through issues the students are facing in their community.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

But community members rallied to keep it open, in part because of its auspicious beginnings — it was the first public school for black students in Brooklyn, opening the same year that slavery ended in New York, 1827 — and in part because parents weren't convinced that a new school would solve old problems.

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.

That's because Leonhardt is right: Barnes & Noble going through major restructuring, bankruptcy, or, worse case, liquidation would create an enormous black hole in the book market for many communities.

I'm glad Black Desert Online didn't make the list, because they need to seriously fix their community of atrocious edgelord neckbeards before it gets any positive recognition.

There's a lot of duality happening, and the paintings that are going to be shown at the group show really talk about a personal and shared experience with people who are gender non-conforming or who break out of the rigid box of masculinity, especially in the black community and culture because I am so in love with my culture.

Because Bo and Maria spoke about the contaminated water in their communities» wells, the streams running black with dead fish near their homes, the toxic air coming in and out of their lungs, and the grave health risks of living near mountaintop removal mining sites.