Sentences with phrase «black folks»

This next landscape has a pool with floating noodles at its center and portraits of black folks in various states of leisure on the walls.

In practice, black folk art has always had broader appeal and was thought accessible precisely because it could speak to social and cultural connections.

Been searching for a decent online dating site for black folks and came.

So did the network of black folks who I connected with.

Black students are on the mark when they say that religion is what black folk do when they are not able to do anything else.

What they find is, when you put up shows that have to do with black folks, they come in.

And although it is primarily black folks on the lines, it is not exclusively so.

I came up at a time when black folks just wanted better.

It makes me want to hit the road even more seeing so many black folks living, working and loving all over the world!

For whatever reason, white folk fear black folks so much.

When I am teaching, I also try to show this fact by including the voices of other black folks who may or may not agree with me.

Many talked about what it meant to see black folks in power.

(4) The first generation of black folk artists did not necessarily have these resources, and their lives show how creative work can thrive with minimal access to it.

Black folk need an alternative, and reform must be redefined.

Old bright women are experiencing life with younger Black folks because their is excellent benefits.

For most black folk, however, not liking reform equates to not liking institutional racism, which impacts our communities no matter how many black and brown people an organization hires.

There are a few black folks in my predominantly white church who prefer our more subdued service.

I didn't realize black folks were allowed in the cult.

Except for a few older black folks who,..

Officers here are more likely to stop and search black folk.

I constantly hear black folk wax poetic about the golden era of trade schools.

Housing prices are pushing black folk away from the urban core.

Because most professions were fully closed off to Black people in those days regardless of their qualifications, a huge number of highly educated Black folks became teachers.

While no longer a common goal for black folk, it still happens often enough to raise issues for some students.

Black theology uses the language of the masses to make plain the feelings, hopes, dreams, experiences and practices of black folk.

That ratio, that discrepancy, is problematic for me and other black folks like me.

It is unreasonable for educators to expect that Black families should automatically trust other Black folks who are working within the existing school system.

Taking his cue from Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden's 2001 exploratory concept of «post-Black» — a term describing artists adamantly against being labeled «black artists» so that they might explore a multiplicity of ideas concerning racial blackness — Majeed engages these questions around folk and outsider by adopting a similar non-essentialist and inquisitive stance in Post Black Folk Art in America.

When a local news program interviews Mildred about her billboards, she accuses the police of being «too busy torturing black folks» to find her daughter's killer.

Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

He is therefore unconcerned with reaffirming categories or defending labels of what counts as black folk art and its cognate, outsider art.

Though it's Chuck who most infuriates Nick, this flick is mostly about black folks having a hard time adjusting to nature.

There are religious groups here in the US who still think black folks shouldn't be allowed to marry white folks.

And with the inclusion of gods we get — Muslims killing Christians Christians killing Muslims Jews killing Palestinians Christians discriminating against black folks, women, and gays.

ColorOfChange, an online civil rights organization «comprised of Black folks from every economic class,» announced in a press release that it has joined nearly a dozen groups and more than 200,000 individuals in opposing a merger between Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Time Warner...

Scott's killing ignited a flame long dormant in many black folk around Charlotte about the daily oppression they face in searching for housing, escaping poverty, and policing.

«It's the idea that if black folks in the Western hemisphere and in America could recover some of the lost grandeur, the lost glory, the lost autonomy, lost creativity that was taken from people who were brought from Africa to the Western hemisphere, then a lot of the problems that African Americans experience here, now, could be resolved and overcome.»

Mark from Middle River Maybe it's like being surprised at how racist the American south is considering how many black folks live there?

Black folks please read the evil words towards christians here by radical dems and come home to the party of lincoln who freed ur people from slaves, u can vote for herman cain, hes at the top of all polls now with repubs

Walker situates her understanding of a womanist in the context of nonbourgeois black folk culture.

Those folks were 100 % positive that there version of a god said it was perfectly moral and good tom own black folks.

On one of my last Wednesday nights before leaving Portland and moving off to a new adventure, Sister Shirley looked at me and told me how she mistrusted me at first, how I was young and arrogant and how she thought «Lord, here comes another white person to tell the poor black folk how to live.»

His parents moved from New Orleans to California before he was born, but his roots resurface in Sunset on the Bayou (pictured), where black folk ponder hard questions of identity against a cartoonish backdrop of the Louisiana Purchase.

Sadly, de Blasio wants to be relected more than he wants to make a serious change in the way black folks (like his wife and kids only less well - known) are treated by the police.

In the thirty - five years since Black Folk Art in America, self - taught art can be unapologetically discussed within the frame of human stories that wend their way in and out of the art world.

Black folk know too well that no matter how well - meaning white establishments are, they are not black ones.

, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.