Sentences with phrase «black rights at»

Some of this art has nothing to do with black rights at all.

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For instance, he predicts that the «forehead» — the black bar that intrudes into the top of the screen on the iPhone X, where all the cameras and sensors go — is an evolutionary detour on the way to a phone that is all screen, with cameras built right in at the microscopic level.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Ronald Edwards, a black civil rights activist in Minneapolis who contacted Reuters at the request of the police department, said he believed the city's police chief was doing her best to improve race relations.

That's why Sony partnered with Joshua Peek, an astronomer at Columbia University, to build «The Invisible Universe,» an Android app which uses GPS position and device orientation to reveal what's happening in the universe — from massive black holes to constellations — right on the Sony Ericsson platform.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members Reese Tillman, right, and Bucketo Mitchell at a rally outside the Philadelphia Starbucks where one of their fraternity brothers was one of the two black men arrested at for trespassing,

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members Reese Tillman, right, and Bucketo Mitchell at a rally outside the Philadelphia Starbucks where one of their fraternity brothers was one of the two black men arrested at for trespassing, (Tom Gralish / AP)

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

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But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Translated into program, what Washington wanted to see was blacks concentrating in the main on developing their capacities to exploit such opportunity as already lay at hand, relying on the expectation that as such self - development proceeded, blacks would be in a stronger position to make a successful claim for the full rights of citizenship.

Today's civil rights orthodoxy is to denounce as «racist» ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair.

Editor's Note: Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is an expert on Black churches, evangelicalism and the religious right.

Bigots will and Bible - thumpers will fondly look back at the days when when it was just Blacks and Gays wanting their rights respected in thie country.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

At bottom these two parties agree that the magnitude of the challenge facing blacks in this post-civil rights environment is beyond our capacities.

To compare the marriage of gays to cicil rights for blacks is outrageous — not at all the same.

So when people in the south spoke up for freedom and equal rights for the black race... they were inciting the guys who showed up at night to burn their homes because they knew it would upset the bigots?

She bustled into her house, only to emerge, minutes later, with a huge tray of cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, which she carried to our porch and offered around with her ready smile, simultaneously feeding and greeting the children of a family she had never met — and a black family at that — with nothing to gain for herself except perhaps the knowledge that she had done the right thing.

Although we use «linguistic sweeteners and semantic somersaults» and call these schools «diverse,» the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (now at UCLA) has documented that more than 2 million students, including more than a quarter of black students in the Northeast and Midwest, attend schools in which 99 to 100 percent of the students are nonwhite.

Today's civil - rights orthodoxy is to denounce as racist ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair....

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

That one came right of the White House, talking about the Black Panthers at the voting polls.

Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).

«All right, all right,» he said, looking at Mrs. Parks and two other blacks.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

Malcolm challenged black ministers to take a critical look at Christianity, Martin King, and the civil rights movement.

No longer able to accept black invisibility in theology and getting angrier and angrier at the white brutality meted out against Martin King and other civil rights activists, my Southern, Arkansas racial identity began to rise in my theological consciousness.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement helped me to take another look at the theological meaning of the black struggle for justice.

A few weeks ago, you are informed, he was robbed at the height of the rush hour right there, a knife to his white throat from behind, while another black robber went through his pockets deftly.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

At the same time, the accession of black Americans to full citizenship rights has been truly dramatic.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.

The fact is that, even though every other racial minority is at least split on the issue, as a party the Democrats and their black leaders have adopted an exclusively statist understanding of minority rights.

It is old white men losing their control of society as a whole and they are just grasping at memories of the good old days... blacks were owned, women had no rights, the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe...

Grabbing my trusty phone, I quickly snapped a picture that looked just right for MySpace: black and white, not looking directly at the camera, with just a hint of melancholy.

(We stuffed up with apartheid in South Africa, we stuffed up in Ireland, we stuffed up over black rights, we stuffed up in Iraq, we will stuff up more, at home, in the city, and a lot of other places - We are a bit like King Midas, we think we are so clever and can turn things into gold and instead, a lot of the time it turns out as horse manure.)

Right now I have black rice, chia seeds and something else that I have no idea what to do with but I thought I needed them at the time!

Reheat, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste, and sprinkle with herbs or one of the toppings at right.

Can you spot Isaac's mop of black hair looming at the top right corner in the first photo?

The night before I made the brownies with black beans, but because I attemtped to experiment with substituting the eggs, the bean brownies did not turn out right — at all.

I decided to a take a stab at it last week, in part because I was working on this Slow Cooker Black Bean Chili with Kahlua, and I had to go a few rounds to get it just right.

Add 4 ounces of cream cheese into a bowl, dice 4 ounces of smoked salmon, which is about 2 slices (the easiest way to dice up smoked salmon is to roll up each slice like a cigar, cut it right down the middle and then thinly slice it), then add the diced smoked salmon to the bowl with the cream cheese, next add 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill, 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder, season with freshly cracked black pepper and mix everything together until well mixed, cover with seran wrap and add to the fridge for at least 15 minutes

Excited as I was by it all, it was clear to the young guy at the register, with his slick of black hair, that I was a rookie, struggling to get my order right.

He still wore the black jersey that quarterbacks use for non-contact players but the rising sophomore caught passes at the end of the line for receivers on the right side.

Newcastle ended up losing the game 1 - 0 to Sunderland, with Defoe's superb strike proving the difference at the Stadium of Light as the Black Cats claimed the bragging rights.

Early enrollee WR Tarik Black, who showed at the Army All - American Game that he's one of the best WRs in the 2017 class, has the right mindset about playing early.