Sentences with phrase «by people of color»

Seen even more generally, Black Panther's success is a boon not just for films led by people of color, but films led by all minorities.

Some of these issues include reducing vehicle emissions and barriers faced by people of color in the area of mental health.

The movie industry has benefited a lot recently by releasing films directed by people of color and women.

It's true that poor communities are disproportionately populated by people of color.

[75] This piece tried to portray charters as supported by people of color who live in areas with the highest concentration of charters.

The move comes amid a push to ease consequences, borne disproportionately by people of color, for possession of a drug that's legal in nine states.

The problem extends to the writers room, where only 12 percent of American plays during the 2014 - 15 season were written by people of color.

The most immediate and noteworthy feature of Black Panther is that nearly all the roles are portrayed by people of color.

I have seen high - performing charter schools — many conceived, launched and managed by people of color — making a difference in children's lives.

The area has high poverty rates and is largely populated by people of color.

Johnson's presumptive victory would be the first time the city is not led by a person of color since Christine Quinn was speaker from 2006 to 2013.

Many investors who invest in women - owned companies, or companies run by people of color, or people who are economically disadvantaged, use the same language, and make similar references to a lack of competition and undervalued talent.

Can there be an acknowledgement that daily injustices — from the trivial to the life - threatening — faced by people of color in this country has an effect how we define safety?

The Stepford Wives meets Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in Get Out (2017), the directorial debut of writer / comedian Jordan Peele, a tricky and successful mix of social satire, modern horror, and savvy commentary on race as experienced by a person of color in a largely white society.

(This, as I overheard Drew lament, was one of the few works by a person of color mentioned at Open Score.)

According to a major report on art industry sexism that ARTnews published earlier this year, only seven percent of the 410 works from MoMA's permanent collection currently on display are by women, and even fewer by people of color.

Considering that these groups are young Millennials, generally, diverse, and often headed by people of color — people you want to reach — have you thought about how you want to get them engaged?

Just briefly: Not there yet: The Association of National Advertisers tallied its members and found that «only 13 percent of the top jobs are held by people of color, including 5 percent Asian, 5 percent Hispanic / Latin and 3 percent black,» E.J. Schultz writes.

A growing share of new firms are being started by people of color: with 40 percent of new entrepreneurs being comprised of African American, Latino, Asian, or other non-white entrepreneurs in the 2016 Index.

The love, patience and candor offered by people of color in my life has given me a new set of ears for Dr. Yancy's outcry.

Whites need to be mentored for leadership by persons of color.

Councilman Carlos Menchaca, who chairs the Council's immigration committee, sent a letter to de Blasio earlier this week asking him to provide the legal funding without attaching any conditions, warning him that creating exemptions for certain alleged offenders would only perpetuate inequalities already faced by people of color moving through the court system.

However, as I thought about what specifically I would write about, I quickly realized that all significant issues pertaining to the recruitment, retention, and subsequent career paths followed by people of color have already been written about, discussed, and analyzed over the years ad nauseam, in various forums, by many different organizations.

But if there's anything revelatory we can take from Black Panther — as a film and a curated soundtrack — it's the way these two artists have managed to prove to major film studios, the vast majority of which are ran by white men, that stories and projects helmed by people of color have the same mass appeal of their unwaveringly supported counterparts.

Black stories matter at Sundance because it opens the flood gates for more creative stories by people of color to enter the television and film industry.

It boasted impressive stats related to diversity, with 42 percent of the films directed by women and 40 percent by people of color.

There are 202 million reasons for the industry to make more big - budget movies headlined by people of color; to produce small, specific stories with the weight and wallet of major studios; to let Ryan Coogler (and Michael B. Jordan, and Chadwick Boseman, and Danai Gurira, and Lupita Nyong» o) do more great things.

After her students complained that they were unable to find material they needed for a Black History Month assignment, Dorothy Winbush Riley, a Detroit teacher, set out to find and collect a volume of familiar quotations by people of color.

When I was taking my first trip to Madrid, I searched high and low for the black experience in Spain and I found maybe one or two videos by people of color now this was a while back and I believe that this search today is different.

It's the same fate with novels, which prompted me to write this list of 37 novels by People of Color in 2014.

In a 2006 artist statement, Pindell wrote of the small circular shapes comprising her mixed media abstractions, making a connection to childhood memories of strange red circles drawn on the bottom of root beer mugs «to designate that the glass was to be used by a person of color.»

MTT is interested in facilitating conversations and creating community around issues faced by people of color while promoting action beyond the discussion.

A collective of independent audio shows hosted by people of color, women, and queer identified hosts.

However, the number of diverse children's books authored by people of color has not kept pace, standing at only 7 percent in 2017 (and 6 percent in 2016).

He and his co-authors developed a ranking system that showed which polluters were the most unfair — pumping the most toxic air into communities that were densely populated, low - income and disproportionately inhabited by people of color.

But therein lies the difficulty, because the experiences of racism are lived by people of color and white Americans normally don't see what is going on.»

Johnson's victory marks the first time the city is not led by a person of color since Christine Quinn was speaker from 2006 to 2013.

If Johnson were to become speaker, it would be the first time that the city is not led by a person of color since Christine Quinn was speaker from 2006 to 2013.

major superhero movie directed by a woman; Thor: Ragnarok, the first Marvel movie directed by a person of color, and so on.

But what we can't shy away from and put a cap on are the ones that are seeing continued success — and a lot of charter schools that are seeing success are those being run by people of color.

Inspired by the recent protests of NFL players during the national anthem, Sidelined brings together artists responding to injustices experienced by people of color both on and off the sports field: Melvin Edwards, Derek Fordjour, Lauren Halsey, David Huffman, Samuel Levi Jones, Glenn Kaino, Patrick Martinez, and Deborah Roberts.

Our genres are: self - help, relationship, mystery, romance, sex, novels, LGBT books, books about or written by people of color, any fiction, any non-fiction, memoirs.

The 79th includes Bronx neighborhoods such as Morrisania, Concourse Village, Claremont Village, West Farms, and Tremont and is almost entirely populated by people of color.

Borne of the need for better school leadership, today the organization «is a multi-issue organization led by people of color who work together for educational excellence, racial justice for youth, immigrant rights and quality healthcare for all.»