Sentences with phrase «black teenager who»

On the first floor, in the midst of an array of Ofili's early, colorful paintings, many of them portraits, is Ofili's painting «No Woman No Cry» (1998), a portrait of Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager who was murdered while waiting for the bus in London in 1993.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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This year, other academics have cited homophily in elucidating everything from why teenagers choose friends who smoke and drink the same amount that they do to «the strong isolation of lower - class blacks from the interracial - marriage market.»

Two of the group of up to six thugs who attacked the teenager and his friend Duwayne Brooks, simply because they were black, have been convicted of murder, but the rest have evaded justice.

Chris Duffett was on a street evangelism team with 12 bored teenagers who mostly didn't believe that God could do anything supernatural — but one got a clear picture of a woman in a red jacket with a fur collar, wearing black boots, and with severe stomach pain.

That, report John Donohue of Stanford and Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago, is because the women who have most abortions — teenagers, the unmarried, and blacks — are more likely to have children who turn out to be criminals.

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.

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.

As a scientist who, as a teenager was enchanted with the concept of a molecule that instructed our inheritance, I am awed and astounded to be among the first to look across the billions of bases of DNA landscape of the black - footed ferret, an opportunity seemingly beyond the realm of possibility less than a human lifetime ago.

When I was a teenager, I used to babysit for this gorgeous woman who only wore black.

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.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

Though Jack Black (The D Train, Sex Tape) gets his name above the title, the lead role goes to Dylan Minnette (Alexander and the... Bad Day, Labor Day), who plays Zach Cooper, a skittish teenager who has recently relocated with his mother Gale (Ryan, Bridge of Spies) from New York to (fictional) Madison, Delaware when she accepts a vice principal position on Zach's new high school.

Mildred, whose bottomless grief has hardened into a single - minded, nothing - left - to - lose crusade, bulldozes through anyone unwise enough to stand in her way: not just the cops who, in her words, are «too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,» but also neighbors, asshole teenagers, and the town's condescending Catholic priest, who she dresses down with a juicy, show - stopping monologue.

Aggressively Sundance - y on paper — a quirky coming of age tale about a misfit teenager who doesn't fit in, his unlikely black friend, and the terminally ill, cancer - ridden girl he befriends — one would be understanding of the reluctant viewer wary of indie movie clichés.

But, however unlikely, Heidelberg is the setting of Morris From America, a dramedy about a black American teenager who's struggling to break into the rap scene while...

Lonely medical assistant Ruth (Melanie Lynskey, seething and magnetic, just as she was in Heavenly Creatures as a teenager) fumes at everything she sees: the obnoxious coal - roller in his monster truck spewing black smoke, the people who cut her off in line at the supermarket, the dog shit left on her lawn.

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.

Starring The Witch's Anya Taylor - Joy and Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke as disturbingly emotionless upper - class teenagers who plot to kill one girl's stepfather after rekindling their childhood friendship, the film was a favorite of our own A.A. Dowd at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where he called it a «razor - witted black comedy» that's «superbly unpredictable, moving fluidly into thriller territory and back again.»

When Michael B. Jordan isn't offering to pay for replacement retainers for teenagers who have clenched their teeth too hard during his shirtless «Black Panther» scene, he's working to make Hollywood more inclusive.

A moving, somber, and occasionally brutal inversion of the Black Beauty narrative, Lean on Pete centers on Charley (Charlie Plummer), a neglected teenager who bounces around from home to home (and is occasionally homeless), meeting all sorts of adults along the way (Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, and Steve Zahn among them).

The film is about four teenagers who are sucked into the jungle world, and stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, and Jack Black.

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.

There was a sense that it was easiest to honor Ali because his character, Juan, like Janelle Monáe's Teresa, has the closest thing to a constant in the life of Little, the boy who would become Chiron, the teenager who would become Black.

B + The Central Park Five Not Rated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Documentarian Ken Burns, famous for his award - winning stories about American history, tackles a great injustice played upon five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were arrested and convicted for raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989.

These teenagers, who are black, white, Korean, Puerto Rican, Indian, have come to Plainfield High School in the wake of a snowstorm to talk about prejudice with their peers, to analyze the true meaning of slang, to «rap about race.»

I did ask the copy editor to add a brief line referencing the Ferguson shooting before my novel went to press because a white police officer shot Michael Brown, who was a black teenager.

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.

As a teenager, Acconci, who has a weathered face, slate - colored eyes, a gravelly voice, and dresses all in black, watched the Guggenheim Museum being constructed.

Schutz, who is white, employs expressionistic brushstrokes to depict the disfigured face of black teenager Emmett Till, whose 1955 lynching was a pivotal precursor to the Civil Rights Movement.

The latter work of a grieving woman shedding a collage of tears is given close attention because of its historical significance as a tribute piece created in memory of the black British teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was brutally murdered in 1993 and whose name later became synonymous with a public inquiry into the Metropolitan Police's institutionally racist mishandling of the case.

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.

Thematically, the catalogue... tribute piece created in memory of the black British teenager Stephen Lawrence, who was brutally murdered in 1993 and whose name later...

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