Sentences with phrase «by civil rights»

The measure, which is attempting to «ban the box» has been brought forward by civil rights groups to allow ex-offenders a second chance for gainful employment.

Skillfully stringing together big - tobacco litigatrix Sharon Eubanks» departure («The political appointees to whom I report made this an easy decision,» Eubanks told The Washington Post), and a recent Legal Affairs article by civil rights vet William R. Yeomans, Cernovich writes:

Despite the trauma of wrongful imprisonment, victims of miscarriage of justice receive inadequate compensation and follow - up support on release, a major report by civil rights group Justice has revealed.

The Elite Eight, on the Federal Radar 11.11.12 New York Times — The civil rights office of the federal Department of Education has rightly decided to investigate a complaint filed in September by civil rights groups over the admissions policies of eight highly competitive... <

To stay current, you can access all briefs and decisions at this link, which has been setup by the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse at the University of Michigan Law School.

In 2007, inspired by civil rights attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and Avon Williams, Jr., who used the law and courts as a vehicle to make change and protect all people against injustice, Attorney Zulu Ali opened the Law Offices of Zulu Ali with a focus on representing persons accused of crimes and seeking criminal justice, immigrants, victims of discrimination, and persons seeking civil justice.

The Shelby County case, and a second petition, Nix v. Holder, have been watched closely by civil rights and other groups ever since the justices voiced skepticism about Section 5's constitutionality in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder in 2009.

Defense verdict on behalf of a major movie studio in a 1st Amendment / false light claim brought by a Civil Rights era icon

A non-religious philosophical belief or ideology is not protected as a «creed» by civil rights laws.

So in this viewpoint, climate change and the challenges it presents to the taken - for - granted expectations of economic growth and progress is very similar to the identity threats engendered by the civil rights movement and racism, or feminism and patriarchy.

Having witnessed the riots that followed King's assassination from his studio on U Street in the District of Columbia, Gilliam embarked on a series of works inspired by the civil rights leader.

While discussions of Nauman's video works from this period have focused on issues of performativity, endurance, and the body, Ligon was interested in how Nauman's discordant note can be heard as a soundtrack to the war in Vietnam or the brutal violence faced by civil rights workers.

Charles Gaines's series of «Librettos» layer a musical score by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla about star - crossed lovers divided by class, printed on clear acrylic, over a speech by Civil Rights activist Stokely Carmichael.

Defined by civil rights struggles that came to a head with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the ensuing riots across the United States, 1968 was a pivotal if violent turning point for race relations...

Inspired by the civil rights movement, Quentin Morris began making all - black paintings and works on paper in 1963 and has continued to do so ever since.

Inspired by the civil rights and women's liberation movements as well as her own philosophical studies, Piper created performances designed to catalyze the viewer's social awareness.

The class struggle subtext of the opera is counterpoint to the issues brought up by the civil rights activist.

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«Power to the People» is a slogan that reverberates time and again, used by civil rights movements all over the world.

Black Women / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moment.

Rather, it is influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and the practice of shifting materials and resources from one space to another.

Librettos brings together the score of a tragic love story, the opera La Vida Breve (c. 1904) by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, and a fiery 1964 speech by the civil rights activist and Black Panther Party member Stokely Carmichael.

The exhibition featured 140 works by 36 artists, including Charles Gaines, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Samella Lewis, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Betye Saar, practitioners motivated in part by the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the passage of federal anti-descrimination legislation.

Born in 1931 in New York City, Audrey Flack's adulthood was defined by Civil Rights Movements and Second - wave feminism.

Ligon appropriated the phrase from a 1950s poem by civil rights activist Rev. William Holmes Borders and the mantra was later popularized by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson.

The work of the Ohio students will be then be sent to Columbus for a year - long exhibition by the Civil Rights Commission.

[ii] Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the artists of Spiral, including Bearden, Lewis, Alston, Ernest Crichlow, and Emma Amos, met regularly to discuss the role art would play in the struggle for racial equality.

The artist developed the first four sculptures in this series in 1969, inspired by the civil rights movement and her political and personal experiences living in France and traveling to North Africa, China, and the Soviet Union.

Commissioned by civil rights activist Truman Nelson, Reich's piece quotes the testimony given by Daniel Hamm, one among a group of young residents of Harlem who were wrongfully accused of a crime in 1960's.

Both the book and the exhibition feature more than 100 works by African American artists — Elizabeth Catlett, David Hammons, Norman Lewis, Barkley Hendricks and Benny Andrews — as well as other artists inspired by the civil rights era.

Since the 1960s — fuelled by the civil rights movement, reactions to the Vietnam war and second - wave feminism — contemporary art has become an intrinsically politicised, critical medium through which everything, from culture to capitalism and the medium itself could be questioned and deconstructed.

An artist and activist, her bold 1960s paintings were inspired by the civil rights and feminist movements.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Tillage tells the story of his life as the son of a southern sharecropper, who was killed by the KKK, and of the changes brought about by the civil rights movement.

The Toolkit also defines key transportation acronyms and jargon, and explains the engagement opportunities created by civil rights and public involvement laws.

The decision was strongly condemned by civil rights groups, who said that it would harm already highly vulnerable students, but it was applauded by conservatives, who said the guidelines violated the safety and privacy of all other students.

A new report published in February 2015 by the Civil Rights Project UCLA documents «gross disparities in the use of out - of - school suspension experienced by students with disabilities» and other subgroups.

One area of concern that was raised by civil rights groups, as well as other critics of the temporary regulations, last week had to do with district - wide spending and complaints that the new regulations provided a loophole that could allow districts to use money intended for disadvantaged students on those who are not.

In 2010, nearly three out of four black students and four out of five Latino students in the United States attended schools made up mostly of minority students, according to a report published last year by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Coleman Report, mandated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was commissioned to shine a light on unequal educational opportunity across the country, and to expose differences between schools attended by black and white students, particularly in the South.

But they know not to talk about substantive education issues that affect these children like the one reported by the Civil Rights Project: «Based on evidence from several important measures of segregation, the Civil Rights Project stands by its strong contention that re-segregation has occurred, and that African - American and Latino students are experiencing more isolation in schools than they were a generation ago — and further, that this segregation is deeply linked to unequal educational opportunities.»

A study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that one out of every four black K - 12 students with disabilities was suspended out of school at least one time in 2009 - 10.

The state has two schools — Suitland High in Prince George's and Milford Mill — that are considered «apartheid» schools by the Civil Rights Project because they have a white population of less than 1 percent.

Charter proponents ignored the argument put forth by civil rights groups that, as an Education Week reporter put it, expanding charters means «black families and communities are losing control of their public schools.»

Student - on - student bullying may also trigger a school district's responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits discrimination in public schools based on many of the same characteristics protected by the civil rights laws.

According to a 2010 study by the Civil Rights Project, for example, almost half of low - income students in charter schools attended schools where more than 75 percent of students were low income, compared with about a third of low - income students in traditional public schools.

Protect civil rights as the foundation of a viable healthy democracy, framed in the Declaration of Independence, guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and codified by civil rights legislation.

However, related concerns have also been raised by civil rights groups such as the Education Trust.

Information about such patterns is lost in the blunt, school - level measure of absence embraced by the Civil Rights Data Collection survey, but that does not preclude these data from bringing light to a dark corner of education policy and practice.

UTLA Delivers No - Confidence Vote to LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy LAUSD's teachers union issued an overwhelming vote of no - confidence Thursday in the leadership of Superintendent John Deasy as he finishes his second year, while a rival survey released by civil rights groups showed strong support for his reform strategies and called for an even more aggressive...