Sentences with phrase «black males in»

Black males in Rhode Island are 9.3 times as likely as white males to end up in juvenile detention, according to Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.

Wortley, a criminologist and expert in police racial profiling in police investigations, used census data to compare the representation of young black males in contact card data, and compared it with representation in the population.

The report estimates that 12.6 percent of all black males in their late 20s are in prisons or jails, compared to 3.6 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.

The topic felt pertinent given the severe lacuna of positive imagery of Black males in news media and popular culture.

What they all have in common is that they are using found photographs and objects to question the intersecting forces and racial biases that place photographic images of Black males in public spaces.

A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge: Black Males in America» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men, who span generations and backgrounds, about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant in this post-Obama era and in the wake of Ferguson and countless other police involved killings of African American men that have dominated the news for more than a year now.

Roula Seikaly reviews Question Bridge: Black Males in America, the published companion to a project, platform, and installation that regards identity and representation.

Learning guide available for download: Question Bridge Learning Guide This free Learning Guide is intended to inform educators about the publication Question Bridge: Black Males in America, so they are better able to lead students of all ages in meaningful discussions surrounding its content.

Wiley, who shows at Deitch Projects in New York, makes immaculate paintings, inserting black males in street wear into the canon of Western European portraiture and posing them as saints or prophets.

«Question Bridge: Black Males in America» documents a five - channel video installation and touring exhibition co-created by Hank Willis Thomas.

to collect information on what urban districts are doing to improve the success of black males in their schools.

The Office of Black Male Student Achievement (OBMSA) is an office designed to support black males in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) to affectively change the trajectory of their academic outcomes.

I am passionate about being a role model for young black males in their early childhood years.

John H. Jackson, the head of the Cambridge, Mass. - based foundation, said last month that the organization was issuing a challenge to school districts to promote a 50 percent increase in the graduation rate of black males in the next five years.

The grim statistics are well known but bear repeating: In Chicago, close to 60 % of young Black men do not graduate from high school; only 6 % of Black males in the ninth grade will earn a bachelor's degree by age 25; and nearly half of Black males between the ages of 20 and 24 are both unemployed and out of school.

Sometimes their status as black males in a predominantly white school seems to at issue; at other times it is simply their very different life circumstances.

The 2008 Schott Foundation report on high school graduation among black males found that only 19 percent of black males in Indianapolis, 20 percent in Detroit, 27 percent in Norfolk, Virginia, 29 percent in Rochester, New York, and 47 percent nationally were graduating from high school.

Black males in such schools fare the worst, penalized seven times as harshly as my estimate of the average effect of acting white on all black students!

In this brief, artsy clip for Mercedes - Benz Style Profiles, London breaks down the tenets of his personal style — spoiler alert: he's never been seen without a hat — and the continued influence of black males in the style and music world.

Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new study by a Michigan State University education scholar.

Simpson argued in the complaint there is no «legitimate reason» why McEneny didn't return his calls or contact his reference between April 21 and May 21, and points to the city's lack of black males in various departments, including police and fire.

This makes me worry for the black males in this country because the vast majority have no fathers or positive black male role models in their lives.

«Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.»

«Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.»

Going black male in the US Navy looking for nature women to meet.

I'm a young, handsome, black male in search of a sugar momma who wants her desires fulfilled... women only you see the number feel to use it if I'm not interested I just will discontinue conversation...

I'm a black male in madison looking for a buddy, some one to go out with and have a good time with.

I am a 6» 41 year old black male in the Dallas (Oak Cliff) area.

I am a single attractive black male in Kansas City, KS area.

Black male in St Paul, looking for young play mate for long term enjoyment..

23 yr old black male in the military looking for a beautiful woman to spoil me.

I'm a 6» 3 185 lb black male in Roswell, GA who is down to earth very open minded and laid back interested in other open minded individuals who are exciting and like trying new things... I am interested in white females preferrably over 35 who are not too shy and willing to try ME..

I'm 6» 2 light - skinned african black male in spare time play video games go to the movies hanging with friends going to barques

And when you're the only black male in your building, there's no one to talk to about it.

Ultimately the display of both artists» works offers a politically charged yet poetic booth presentation focusing on the complex representation of the black male in American culture and the African diaspora.

Taken together, Simmons oeuvre reflects the shift that curator Thelma Golden both observed and underwent herself with her exhibitions Black Male in 1994 and Freestyle in 2001: the move from highly politicized issue - based art to more apolitical considerations of identity along side the artistic process.

Wiley's beautifully painted portrait of a young black male in the context of an NYPD mug shot doesn't have a shred of the radical politics of David Wojnarowicz's «One Day This Kid...» (1990), while DeBalincourt's sausage - fingered politicians in «ambitious new plans # 1» (2005) is adjacent to Mark Lombardi's damning exploration of global capitalism through the complex web of banking and finance.

We hold the largest institutional collection of his work, and Ligon has appeared in landmark exhibitions including as the 1993 Whitney Biennial and Black Male in 1994.

Not exact matches

On a list like ours, it's easy to get lost in the politics — the pinpointing of causes on a spectrum of left to right, blue to red, black to white, male to female.

But like many superheroes of color in the Marvel (and DC) universes, Black Panther was relegated to the periphery of the pantheon of superheroes — most of whom were white male characters created by white men.

They are still forbidden from appearing in public without a long black full - length head covering, and require male permission to marry or conduct certain business.

For this story Fortune focused on the particularity of being black and male in corporate America.

In recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or AsianIn recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asianin which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asians.

Research published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often than their male and white counterparts.

As a whole, females tended to graduate with less debt than their male counterparts, except for black females who had $ 272 more in debt than black males.

According to a study in the Journal of Crime and Delinquency, 50 percent of black males and 40 percent of white males have been arrested by the time they are 23 years old.

The Freedom Report's online archives only go back to 1999, but I was curious to see older editions of Paul's newsletters, in part because of a controversy dating to 1996, when Charles «Lefty» Morris, a Democrat running against Paul for a House seat, released excerpts stating that «opinion polls consistently show only about 5 % of blacks have sensible political opinions,» that «if you have ever been robbed by a black teen - aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet - footed they can be,» and that black representative Barbara Jordan is «the archetypical half - educated victimologist» whose «race and sex protect her from criticism.»

E.g. Ted Haggard, pastor of a huge charismatic church in Colorado... instead of getting therapy and accepting his sexuality gets caught in a black hole of shame and is found slipping off most weekends to cheat on his wife, do meth, and have sex with a male prostitute.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

Black men were also found to be over three times more likely to be arrested than white men, and in prisons black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than whiteBlack men were also found to be over three times more likely to be arrested than white men, and in prisons black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than whiteblack, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) males are almost five times more likely to be housed in high security for public order offences than white men.