Sentences with phrase «black teenager»

Black teenagers hardly ever heard the word unless it was spoken by one of them.

Rates of suicide attempts are higher among black teenagers than among white teens.

The collector and philanthropist sold Roy Lichtenstein's 1962 Masterpiece for USD$ 150 million earlier this year to help set up her fund — much of the decision to support criminal justice reform has been personal for Gund: she has several African - American grandchildren and has been concerned about the culture of police shootings of unarmed black teenagers in the US.

The prominent New York artist is displaying a series of oversize word paintings that touch on the story of the Harlem Six (a group of black teenagers who were wrongly accused of murdering a shopkeeper in 1964) as well as a set of neon installations that play with the word «America,» among other works.

The family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer last Saturday, may attend Sharpton's «We Will Not Go Back» march.

The announcement comes just one week after a decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.

It also saw Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, and Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, carry the Olympic flag.

We are currently in the midst of a national problem where people are questioning our justice system,» Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, told the Albany audience, alluding to similar controversies like the one surrounding the death of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. «And they're questioning whether the justice system really is fairness for all.

Roy Oliver, the Balch Springs police officer who shot and killed 15 - year - old unarmed black teenager Jordan Edwards, has been fired, the Dallas Morning News reported.

Parker Bright protests in front of a work in New York's Whitney Biennial, depicting murdered black teenager Emmett Till — the painting, by white artist Dan Schutz, has caused outrage.

He remembers the bitterness of members when black teenagers began to worship at Trinity:

One week into the series, a white policeman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

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The starting point for the commission was a series of workshops proposed by Kimathi Donkor for Leaders of Tomorrow, a leadership and enrichment programme for black teenagers of African and African - Caribbean heritage in Southwark.

Maybe, like many of his peers on the Ferguson police force, he was hard on black teenagers.

After releasing a documentary on Kalief Browder, who spent three years awaiting trial on Rikers Island and committed suicide two years after he was finally released, the two are now prepping a series of projects about Trayvon Martin — the 17 - year - old black teenager who was stalked and fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012.

Following George Zimmerman's (refuted) claims that the Smithsonian Museum was interested in acquiring the gun with which he killed unarmed black teenager Martin, the question seems particularly pressing.

From that address in 2006 a narrative was sent with the subject heading «How My Little Brother Learned to Be a Whore,» in the body of which was a story about how one black teenager sodomizes and pimps his younger brother.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the «Jena Six» case is accused of beating a white classmate, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property.

When Obama said he could have been black teenager Trayvon Martin who was killed by a neighbourhood watch policeman in 2011, Ryan was in the audience.

The report, commissioned by the Communities Department, said black teenagers needed a more diverse range of role models, rather than musicians and sportsmen.

On the plus side, the Farrellys provide father Charlie with triplets — three huge black teenagers (Mongo Brownlee, Jerod Mixon, and Daniel Greene) with genius I.Q.s who fight over quantum physics problems but still speak in street slang (presumably because they were allowed to watch Richard Pryor on cable as kids).

Indeed, on the surface, «Finding Forrester» tells a similar story to that of Van Sant's 1997 Oscar - winning «Good Will Hunting,» with Connery playing the Robin Williams part and black teenager Rob Brown in the Matt Damon role, a gifted kid with a chip on his shoulder.

So the film's greater pleasures seep in around the edges of the plot: the gradual revelation of why Scudder quit the police force, the strong supporting performances (notably by Ólafur Darri Ólafson as the caretaker of a graveyard) and the relationship between Scudder and T.J., a savvy but homeless black teenager who becomes his sidekick.

Célinne Sciamma set the bar early and high with Girlhood, an immensely powerful drama story about four black teenagers coming of age in a poor Paris suburb.

And a cursory count reveals 13 others — books I would suggest, like Angie Thomas» The Hate U Give, the story of the unprovoked police shooting of a poor black teenager, or Atia Abawi's A Land of Permanent Goodbyes, the powerful story of a family of Syrian refugees.

In 1912, after the rape and murder of young, white Mae Crow and the so - called confession by black teenager Ernest Knox, white «night riders» took matters into their own hands.

This new documentary about black teenagers fighting to stay afloat in rural North Carolina maintains the urgent, socially - engaged tradition of Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams).

The incident developed when several black teenagers attempted to mitigate a confrontation between police officers and a group of victimized children.

Other urban districts also have begun to focus on minority males to reduce the achievement gap or address skewed discipline statistics or stereotypes, all issues that have been magnified since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets Marc Silver's documentary about the 2012 slaying of black teenager Jordan Davis due to an argument over loud music puts the issue of American racial tension front and center, offering insight into an issue that dominated newspaper headlines over the past year.

The controversy over the Dana Schutz painting of the murdered black teenager Emmett Till that is included in the current Whitney Biennial, has taken a turn with Whoopi Goldberg and the panel of US TV show The View condemning artist Hannah Black's call for the Schutz work to be destroyed.

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

Five people were arrested in New York City last night in connection with protests against the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

The graduation rate for black teenagers that's widely reported and lamented consists of students who earn diplomas in four years of high school.

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Open Casket, an abstract work, refers to the funeral of black teenager Emmett Till, who was murdered by a lynch mob in Mississippi in 1955.

American documentaries in competition explore such subjects as the amateur porn industry, Mexican drug cartels, endangered animals, Evel Knievel and the 2012 shooting of unarmed black teenager Jordan Russell Davis.

The verdict comes about three years after rioting broke out in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson when an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer.

Since the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last August, the calls to monitor law enforcement officers» use of force has spread rapidly.

The riots began after the official announcement that a grand jury had declined to indict a white Ferguson police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager.

Such calls having been growing across the country since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager, by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014.

I think it really will take something like 80 % for gun control, and tragically, I'm convinced it will take a lot more senseless deaths — and not just the death of black teenagers, but the deaths of children of powerful people through gun violence.

Sanford, Florida (CNN)-- As opening arguments begin, courtroom seats are at a premium at the trial of George Zimmerman, charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.