Sentences with phrase «black teenager by»

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.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

One of the standout titles is «3 1/2 Minutes,» a documentary about the 2012 killing of a black teenager by a white man over loud music at a Jacksonville gas station.

Director Marc Silver's documentary «3 1/2 Minutes» examines the 2012 killing of a black teenager by a white man over loud music at a Jacksonville gas station.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton supports a federal review of the Chicago Police Department following the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer.

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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.

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.

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

As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

«Despite changes in stop - and - frisk policy in New York City, the system is obviously broken when an unarmed Black teenager can be shot to death in his own bathroom and no one is held to account by any part of our criminal justice system.

The Working Families Party in a statement said it was troubled by the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to not charge police officers in the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black teenager.

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.

Carrying banner reading «Black Lives Matter» at the helm of the procession were the families of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teenager shot dead by police in his home in 2012, and of Brooklyn 16 - year - old Kimani Gray — who was allegedly carrying a pistol when officers killed him in the street in 2013.

This glamorous wallpaper features chic Chinoiserie inspiration, oh - so - delicate butterflies and a bold, black and white color scheme for the ultimate dose of drama.Inspired by her own bedroom as a teenager, fashion designer Anna Sui created...

A German teenager who cant help making Nazi salutes because he suffers from Tourettes syndrome was beaten unconscious by a black man.

Yorgos Lanthimos's freeze - dried revenge saga casts Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman as a moneyed married couple who find themselves targeted by a supernatural teenager (Barry Keoghan), while the tale slaloms from deadpan black comedy through Cape Fear - ish thrills towards a finale of such matter - of - fact horror that it can only be watched through splayed fingers.

The teenagers take the form of video game avatars, played by the surprisingly charismatic and charming hodgepodge of Johnson, Gillan, Hart and Black.

Starring Chris Evans, the upcoming Marvel film will have heroes like the web - slinging teenager along with Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman.

When the writer - director's debut, Pariah, about a black lesbian teenager coming to terms with her sexuality, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, it was a darling with critics and was bought by distributor Focus Features.

Documentary Directed by: Marc Silver On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, November 2012, four middle - class African American teenagers in a red SUV pulled into a Jacksonville gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls.

Directed by Jake Kasdan Starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Jonas, Rhys Darby, Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, and Ser» Darius Blain SYNOPSIS: Four teenagers discover an old video game console and are literally drawn into the game's jungle setting becoming the adult -LSB-...]

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.

In Kathryn Bigelow's drama, a seemingly endless night in 1967 Detroit unfolds, showing what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident, in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

Unfolding on a long, hot July night in 1967 Detroit, it depicts what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident (the title of a well - known book by John Hersey about that night), in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

This Steve Martin classic directed by Ron Howard tells the story of the Buckman family and all of their ups and downs, including every family stereotype under the sun — the black sheep, the secrets, and those rebellious teenagers that just won't be kept down.

Based on the R - rated Black List approved script by Chris Baldi and re-written into much more broadly appealing (read: safe your for kids) version by «(500) Days of Summer» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the film has a «Freaky Friday» or «17 Again» sort of vibe, as it tells the story of a teenager who meets a hologram claiming to be the adult version of himself; the hologram then helps guide the teen through high school.

A national debate on race was triggered last year when a black teenager was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson.

Although laws compelling 16 - year - olds to remain in school for an additional year increased by 0.16 years the average number of years of schooling that white teenagers completed, they had no impact on the number of years of schooling black and Hispanic teenagers completed.

Good Morning Yesterday was the 60th anniversary a watershed moment of the civil rights movement — when nine black teenagers were escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock.

In her spare time, she is a novice winemaker, a martial artist, a juggler, a military Mom to 2 teenagers (one of each), step - Mom to 2 dogs (one of each) and is owned by a black cat.

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.

The chilling intimidation of the black community by a silent KKK march and the dismantling of the businesses and families in Freedom are related by teenager Rose Lee Jefferson.

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.

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

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.

As a teenager he began his career as a visual artist by creating stadium - sized concert backdrops for musicians like Youssou N'dour and Positive Black Soul.

With an eye toward projected demographic trends such as these, the group exhibition The Future of America at the Hudgens Center for the Arts through April 28, brings together work by seven lens - based artists documenting various communities and subcultures among American teenagers and children: black cowboys and cowgirls, boys wearing fatigues and armed with paint guns, adolescent girls in their bedrooms.

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.

For many of these teenagers, these sessions marked their first visit to the gallery, as well as the first time they had been asked to critically consider and research works of art by prominent black British artists.

Hinkle was particularly moved by the case of convicted serial killer Lonnie D. Franklin Jr., a former sanitation department mechanic, dubbed the «Grim Sleeper,» who was convicted of murdering nine black adult women and a teenager over the course of two decades in South Central Los Angeles.

At the time, he recalls, «There was a lot of concern and upset around the death of Stephen Lawrence [the black teenager who was murdered by white youths in London] and what all that meant.

I live in St. Louis, less than 20 miles from the unrest following the August 9 fatal shooting by a white police officer of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager.

By 1990, Hazel took black teenagers who rarely left Little Rock on field trips to climb nearby Pinnacle Mountain and picking strawberries.

Looking back, the teenager said that the Bitcoin Black Friday in 2013 was the biggest one to date by sales volume.