Sentences with phrase «black kids»

«I was the only black kid in the class,» he says.

Community groups are renting out whole theaters to screen it; people are running crowd - funding campaigns to buy tickets for black kids who might not be able to see it otherwise.

Set it low and the gap will shrink; the white kids are still over the bar but now lots more black kids will exceed it, too.

Poor black kids trapped in failing neighborhoods schools, that's the biggest race problem of today.

It was also observed in various surveys and studies conducted by many organizations and psychologists that black kids do not have any ego problems compared to white men.

The greatest tragedy is that young black kids make choices about these perceptions as well.

So you could have 90 black kids on your campus, but they never showed up on your accountability reports.

There were only two other black kids in my grade of the magnet program, and there were about four others among the other grades.

Every student has something to teach, and peer tutoring shouldn't just be white kids teaching black kids or the bright teaching the slow.

We also spoke about why black kids seeing a black superhero was important to them.

No district is able to get even one in five black kids up to proficiency in eighth - grade math or reading.

We need to do everything we can to make sure Black kids succeed, not end up in prison cells.

My dad and his brothers and sisters were some of the first black kids to integrate the city's white Catholic schools.

It is TT's hope that his story will inspire other black kids living in informal settlements to pursue their dreams and rise above their circumstances.

«Why would the NAACP agree to sue the very charter schools that were providing so many black kids with a high quality education?»

And a must read this morning from Derrell Bradford, Dr. Howard Fuller, and Chris Stewart: «Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary»

On his way to yet another rejection meeting Sam spots a young black kid get detached from his family on the subway, and leaps in to help.

They didn't want our... Continue reading So Let Me Get This Straight: If Black Kids Come to a School, the School is Going to Automatically Fail?

They're inching toward $ 1000 including tax, and for plain black kid leather cutout shoes, this is exorbitant.

«I come from the era of black kids who were the first to be accepted into white schools in South Africa.

Makkah: Nikole Hannah - Jones begins this story by emphasizing that the reason integration works is because it creates an environment where Black kids have access to the same resources as white kids.

Ferguson - Florissant meted out at least one out - of - school suspension to 11 percent of black children condemned to its special ed ghettos (including kids covered by Section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); that rate is double the 4.9 percent of black kids condemned to special ed in St. Louis who were suspended once from school.

Hamilton, who'd grown up without much money, was often one of few black kids in her honors classes.

I've seen 18 year old black kids sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling cocaine to adult buyers; these predatory priests should be looking an serious issues of prison time · (measured in decades) while their purple - robed protectors deserved to be confined with them.

Re: «How Are These White Teachers At A Long Island School Helping Black Kids Achieve Above - Average Graduation Rates?»

Back in 2015, under pressure from the Obama administration, they decided that school suspensions were out of control and were unfairly targeted toward black kids:

«I like to joke that we are a block away from the Diff'rent Strokes house and we are the Diff'rent Strokes family: two teenage black kids who move in with a white couple and their baby,» he says, sprawled on a maroon couch in that Upper East Side townhouse.

«But now at school, I'm meeting upper middle class black kids.

We have far too many Black kids in high poverty and high need who don't have the tools that we've said our communities have been providing and that our school system has been delivering.

Black kids make mistakes.

He was thrust into being the only white kid among black kids who stole his bike and beat him up.

Again, he uses another intentionally loaded turn - of - phrase: «Oreo» is a pejorative that kids use against black kids who «act white,» that is, they live outside of black stereotypes by doing anything from listening to classical music to wanting to pursue higher education.

Those street - smart black kids from the housing projects were emotionally bowled over by the songs and the testimonies of their contemporaries from a small southern town.

stephen douglas, your comments sound just like George Wallace's speech to black kids trying to get into school.

And I have killed all those skittle - toting hoodie - weearing black kids, just like you told me.

A group of black ministers is meeting with the Hampton Chamber of Commerce to try to defuse the situation, and a threat to pull black kids out of school in protest is waning.

The author of «Beating Black Kids» - Asadah Kirkland explains in depth that while this may not just be a «black» problem, it is commonplace throughout the... [read more]

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Iâ $ ™ m the strongest, coolest and fastest; and most appreciated black kid you'll ever wan na meet!

LANGUAGE 5 - One possible F - word, 13 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, name - calling (robot, jokers, loser, trouble, problem children, skinny black kid, dummy, pasty white kid, beast), exclamations (jeez, you've got ta be kidding me), 2 religious profanities (GD), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, Jesus Christ, Oh My God, during a confrontation a woman says, «My God is bigger than your statistics»).

The only personal touch would seem to be Green's goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it's a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington, would have as its hero a silent, self - contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States and thus a corrective of sorts for Rufus Jones.

Centered on a story about two young black kids wrongly accused of the murder of two white wealthy businessmen.

Based on the positive identification by a Ku Klux Klansman, a 19 year - old black kid named Darryl Hunt was soon fingered as the perpetrator.

With a touch of «Rear Window» voyeurism, narrative depicts Forrester as a silver - haired eccentric who spends a lot of time at his Bronx apartment window, seemingly observing a bunch of black kids playing ball in a court across the street; later it turns out he's an avid bird - watcher.

Immediately, we fall in love with 17 - year old Keire, the always - laughing, sole black kid in the group; 23 - year old Zack, the charmer and soon - to - be-Dad; and 24 - year old, self - effacing Liu himself.

It's certainly not unfunny, just mildly amusing at best (though a running subplot with Murray as a neighborly uncle, or something, to a group of local black kids is completely out of place), with Allen still able to hold his own onscreen and deliver one liners, even making the most of the slightly worn and familiar zingers he throws out here.