Sentences with phrase «by black citizens»

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

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When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

In the Union of South Africa, where the government has limited the access in the black townships to FM radio (which covers a small area and can be controlled by the government), the development of small local newspapers has been one of the few ways black citizens can «talk» to one another.

In 1947 a group of American blacks led by W. E. B. Du Bois, under the auspices of the NAACP, had appealed to the UN to redress «the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America.»

It is the same naivety that made my dad, being a citizen when he arrived here, refused by landlords saying «no blacks, no Irish no dogs».

Among citizens of voting age in District 31, 47 percent are Hispanic, 36 percent are white and 15 percent are black, according to an analysis of census data by Andrew A. Beveridge, of Queens College.

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I was inspired recently by Modcloth and their announcement about shutting down their site on «Black Friday» (Nov. 24th, for non-US citizens) and instead donating $ 5 million worth of merchandise to Dress for Success, the...

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This compelling biopic follows Martin Luther King Jr. (played by British actor David Oyelowo) as he fights for federal legislation to protect the voting rights of black citizens and his involvement in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches.

The continuation, through Warren, of the retribution against white brutality exacted by Django is offered as cathartic, and Tarantino's sincere commitment to fighting racism is welcome given the current tensions provoked by police killings of black citizens in the United States.

This juxtaposition is fully realized in the stunning costume design by Ruth E. Carter who presents very traditional clothing for the citizens of Wakanda while dressing Black Panther, Killmonger, and the other warriors in harder, edgier materials.

Performance Jack Black, Bernie In Richard Linklater's hilarious fact - based docudrama, Jack Black plays an accomplished mortician so beloved by the citizens of a Texas small town that nobody seems to want to admit he's almost certainly guilty of murdering a hateful, extraordinarily rich old woman (Shirley MacLaine) who monopolizes his time and energy — or, for that matter, concede that he's gay.

The time is 1963 and Molly is just old enough to question the appalling treatment of the country's black citizens by the whites.

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Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) takes the protest song form to new heights in this impressive music video that exquisitely captures America's crisis as a Police State busy escalating its 150 - year long system of genocide by degree against Black citizens.

Aided by Slappy (voice of Jack Black), a ventriloquist dummy featured in another of his stories, the alarming creatures run amuck, destroying property, terrorizing citizens, welding weapons and promising to do whatever it takes so that they will never have to return to the confines of the printed page.

By the time Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) graces the screen in Black Panther, director Ryan Coogler has already introduced viewers to the vividly imagined Wakanda — and the citizens that constitute the hidden utopia in East Africa.

American Violet Rated PG - 13 for thematic material, violence, drug references and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Set a few years ago in Melody, TX, American Violet follows the true - life events of a town shaken up by a District Attorney that attempted to keep the black citizens down by raiding their projects and making them plead guilty to felony charges to get out of prison.

A subplot about Handy and President Cole running against each other in some contrived mayoral race that showcases every variety of quirky senior citizen (the nudist, the potty - mouthed old biddy usually played by Betty White, the sassy ethnic earth mama, usually Asian or black) doesn't go anywhere and just makes an already laboured piece seem interminable.

Crafted from footage taken by actual citizens in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ferguson, the film takes an «unflinching look» at the uprising, the protests, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

De Klerk brokered the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supported the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

Rhee is also disliked by a large percentage of black D.C. citizens, who voted out former Mayor Adrian Fenty in part because of his unqualified support for Rhee's actions.

Yesterday, fellow pro-public education blogger, Jersey Jazzman, wrote a great piece about the fact that a number of school districts in New Jersey — all populated by black and Hispanic citizens — have been under state control for years.

Approved request by Black Oak Mine Unified School District to waive portions of California Education Code Section 15282, regarding term limits for membership of a Citizens» Oversight Committee for all construction bonds in the district.

-- Woodrow Wilson The room on the first floor of the Barbour County Courthouse in the little town of Eufaula, Alabama, was normally the County Clerk's Office, but after it had closed for the day on August 2, 1957, it was being used by the county's Board of Registrars, the body that registered citizens so they could vote in elections — not that the Board was going to register any of the three persons who were applying that day, for the skin of these applicants was black.

Working in black - and - white, usually on the streets of Harlem, the photographer sized up his fellow citizens with an incisiveness that allowed for sympathy but was not clouded by it.

If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.

Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.

«Energy Citizens» is supported by the API, National Association of Manufacturers, American Farm Bureau, American Highway Users Alliance, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, FreedomWorks, American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.

What the gun confiscators propose is a massive armed attack on citizens by the government, comparable to what the Nazis did to the Jews, the Communists did to business owners, and the KKK did to blacks.

This is not to say that the majority of Australians, black or white, do not feel sorry for injustices suffered by their fellow citizens.

A «foreign person» is defined as a natural person who is not a citizen or not ordinarily resident in South Africa, a foreign juristic person (excluding a foreign juristic person controlled by a black person as defined in the Employment Equity Act, 1998 (Black Person)-RRB-, or a juristic person in which a foreign person or foreign juristic person holds a controlling interest, which includes a tblack person as defined in the Employment Equity Act, 1998 (Black Person)-RRB-, or a juristic person in which a foreign person or foreign juristic person holds a controlling interest, which includes a tBlack Person)-RRB-, or a juristic person in which a foreign person or foreign juristic person holds a controlling interest, which includes a trust.