Sentences with phrase «by the black community»

The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.

It was the one institution run and owned by the black community.

He mentioned that he was not accepted by the black community when he was young and it was the other race that showered him with love.

According to the author's logic, the only way a black woman is approved of dating and marrying a white men is if she gave every black man she ever met in life a chance, and after well - documented proof, can be given begrudging approval by the black community to seek love elsewhere.

Through his activities with the NAACP, Law started the Savannah Boycott, a nonviolent protest by the black community that lasted for more than a year.

My work is really inspired by the black community.

BLSA Canada and its chapters at law schools nationwide are concerned by the challenges faced by the black community in the legal profession.

Not exact matches

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

By now, the business community is used to accusations of its alleged black arts from environmentalists, left - wing politicians and assorted other activists.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Noting the Democratic Party's political dominance in black communities, Trump asked of black Americans, «What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?»

It followed a report last month by the Seattle Times newspaper and online BuzzFeed News accusing the largest U.S. mobile home builder of exploiting black, Latino and Native American borrowers by driving them into subprime loans they can not afford, and harming communities by repossessing homes after borrowers default.

His best - known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead shrink and fade away over time.

But one Twitter user responded by advocating ethnic cleansing: «Great work Diane for creating a no go zone under your watch and your black community.

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

«This decision by the federal government is an important positive step towards the project ultimately moving forward, but there is still a lot of work to be done to satisfy the interests of communities and the First Nations,» said Black.

This scandal is only the latest in a string of worrisome disclosures about the use of social media by third parties, from foreign governments and electoral candidates to law enforcement agencies, to spy on the activities of users — especially immigrant, Black and other vulnerable communities.

By skipping a recent leaders» debate, Doug Ford learned nothing and that means the Black community is as endangered as before because the absent politician is poised to become the one with the most authority to impact their lives, Royson James writes.

Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

For even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their fate.

Fed by LIES that a Jew had deliberately run over a black boy and MORE LIES that Jews deliberately let the boy die, and spurred on by a pillar of the community who showed up and ranted about «diamond merchants» in the neighborhood, a bunch of angry people went around attacking Jews indiscriminately.

By his grace and his alone, and in the community of his people, even I, who am not black, female, marginal or native, am bold to say, with Jesus, «Our Father.»

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

I join many other adults in the black community when I advise any young black man that I influence of the importance of honoring and respecting the police, while also keeping his hands visible and consistently identifying the officer by his badge number.

Instead, many whites have responded with silence / obliviousness or by attacking the black community.

If I'm offended by black people who open businesses in my community because I believe and promote white privledge, and they know that me, and others, would be offended, should they relocate?

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

Can I then say that I have no special responsibility to help overcome the consequences of the slavery and segregation imposed on Blacks by my family and community?

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

The essentially non-Western rootage of black theology is often concealed by the fact that most African - American communities of worship wear the labels of Euro - American Protestant denominations.

Our credibility in Latin America must be judged by the way we deal with the North American Hispanic and black communities.

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

The new black conservatives have had their most salutary effect on public discourse by highlighting the breakdown of the moral fabric in the country and especially in black working poor and underclass communities.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

The controversy, however, is not over whether Wright is a Christian but whether he is right in saying, as Senator Obama has also said, that he represents the black church and, by extension, the black community.

But today that metanarrative is being shattered by a plethora of micronarratives, of which the rise of the LGBTQ community and the Black Lives Matter movement are simply the most obvious examples.

It has shaped beliefs about the black residents of Ferguson, laid the foundations for missteps by authorities, and affected the black Ferguson community's capacity to prevent the death of Michael Brown.

«The bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and the subsequent death of four little girls who were there for Sunday school, shocked the nation with the violent lengths to which racists would go to disrupt and destroy black churches, and by extension, black communities.»

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

First he was against it but now his advisers told him he can improve his miserable polls by supporting it so now we have the pro-gay Obama and all his people like Sharpton want to catch the gay rights wave now that it's apparently OK with the gay black community.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

Alinsky was a regular lecturer there, along with other community theorists and practitioners: Richard Hauser, Milton Kotler (usually accompanied by Pastor Leopold Bemhard, then at First Lutheran in Columbus, Ohio), SDS neighborhood organizers, SCLC clergy from many cities, SNCC organizers, Maulana Ron Karenga of black nationalist work in California, Ivan Illich of Puerto Rican New York and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

The LGBT community will fight for justice by votes I always remember my black friend who MYsaid, «Clifford, If you think being gay is bad try being black snd gay.My belief is that ENDA rights be fundamental since most people need jobs but the LGBT communty is not allowed common employment rights.

The conquest of the political culture of the black community by the culture of the left has allowed someone like Farrakhan to gain an acceptance and support that far exceeds that of any comparable black demagogue in the past including Malcolm X, who in his lifetime, it should be remembered, was condemned and isolated by the leadership of the black civil rights movement precisely because of his rhetorical violence and racial politics.

That dynamism is not the dominant pattern in middle - class black churches is a virtually undisputed fact, empirically verifiable by any unbiased investigator in most communities where middle - class blacks practice religion.

They have vilified the black minister — respected as the «proper» spokesman for the black community by whites — as a «crook» and an Uncle Tom.

Cocoa Life, which was set up by Mondelēz, means Green and Black's will build more and stronger relationships with farming communities and become an accountable partner, not just a buyer, it says.

Associated with the Parliament there will be a three - day multi-faith journey to the Murray River entitled «Walking humbly», which will engage with different communities affected by the Black Saturday bushfires and drought in Victoria's Murray - Darling Basin.