Sentences with phrase «black figure among»

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It also helps to bolster other figures that show the particularly low numbers of black women among the top rungs of major businesses.

Overall, black unemployment stood at 15.6 percent in November; among Hispanics, that figure was 12.7 percent.

There are a number of reasons for this, but one particularly striking figure is that a quarter of American parents still put their babies to sleep on their stomachs, a percentage that rises to half among African - Americans; black babies die of SIDS twice as often as white babies.)

Compared with census figures from the 1990s, the numbers of Hispanic and Asian New Yorkers grew more slowly; blacks recorded their first population loss since the Civil War; and non-Hispanic whites, who registered their smallest population loss in decades, also logged the biggest gains of any group among young children.

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

The observed association between usual percentage of calories from added sugar and increased risk of CVD mortality was largely consistent across age group, sex, race / ethnicity (except among non-Hispanic blacks), educational attainment, physical activity level, HEI score, and BMI (Figure 2 and Supplement [eTable 1 and eFigure]-RRB-.

After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.

But among the 2008 cohort — who graduated just on the cusp of the Great Recession — the employment rate drops sharply to 72 percent for black graduates, while dipping more modestly to 83 percent for white graduates (see Figure 6).

However, none of these effects were found among black children, a third of those served (see Figure 2) although one of the surveys suggested that black children who attended Head Start engage in less criminal activity.

Just 51 percent of black students graduate from high school; the graduation rate among white students is 72 percent (see Figure 1).

But the numbers show that even when blacks are successful in attending and completing college, they're still less likely to be gainfully employed than their white peers, hinting that less education isn't the entire problem, and that attempts to boost educational attainment figures among blacks won't be the entire solution.

These figures have remained fairly consistent since the 2003 - 2004 edition of the survey, but when you compare them with the results of the most recent U.S. Census, which says that Hispanics now make up over 16 percent of the population (up 43 percent since 2000) and blacks make up 12 percent (up 12.3 percent since 2000), it seems that little headway has been made in promoting pet ownership among these ethnic groups.

Known for her silhouetted scenes depicting issues of power and agency among black figures, Walker's work brings a sense of gravity to this experimental album.

Integrating visual cues from black folk art, the Renaissance, and comic books, among others, he addresses black identity and representation with figures that are «unequivocally, emphatically black.»

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

Hailed in his own lifetime as among the most important figures of 20th - century art, both as a practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale University, Albers (1888 - 1976) achieved widespread acclaim across a range of mediums, from glassworks and furniture design to printmaking and painting.

But seeing and hearing works created by those who taught at Black Mountain — whether famous (notably Josef Albers, who was Black Mountain's leading figure from the mid-1930s until 1949, and his wife Anni, a renowned weaver and fabric designer, as well as John Cage and R. Buckminster Fuller, among others) or more or less forgotten (Leo Amino, Mary Callery, José de Creeft, Joseph Fiore)-- will never reveal much about what it was like to study there.

More than 800 people, including prominent artists and cultural figures — Kevin Beasley, Hannah Black, Heather Hart, Juliana Huxtable, Thomas J. Lax, Glenn Ligon, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, and Sarah Workneh, among them — have signed a petition expressing their support for the parole of Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panthers.

In a series of black history self - portraits, Cameroon - born photographer Samuel Fasso recreated a famous profile image of Malcolm X. His «African Spirits» series, which also includes images of Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis and Ethiopian Emperor Hailé Sélassie, among others, pays homage to major figures throughout the African diaspora whose principles, perspectives and actions shaped post-colonial thought.

Cortor's body of work is pioneering because he emphasized the beauty of the black female figure, a rarity among African American artists in his era.

Among survey respondents, Asian (5.5 %), black (2 %), mixed race (2 %) and other (0.5 %) give a combined black and minority ethnic (BME) figure of 10 %.

Among black males, the figure was 3,405.

Ten per cent of trainees are black and minority ethnic (BME) but that figure reduces to just four per cent among law firm partners.