Sentences with phrase «by white classmates»

For his video «Minority Report,» the artist enlarged a well - known 1957 photograph of a black girl walking to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., harassed by white classmates.

Now they share the prospect of being stereotyped by white classmates cavorting around in blackface dressed as pimps and gangstas, and as icons like President Obama and Aunt Jemima.

Not exact matches

On a warm summer evening in 1954, my high school classmate Gerry and I walked up to the steel fence topped by tall bronze spears that surrounded the Eisenhower White House.

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.

Mychal Bell, 17, the first of the classmates to go on trial, was quickly convicted in a kangaroo court by an all - white jury presided over by a white judge in less than three hours.

Carrie (1976): Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

My inaugural day at P.S. 183 included indignities like having my hair rubbed by one of my new classmates, a white girl who asked how I managed to comb it.

This finding «confirms decades of research that white students» achievement is not harmed» by the color of their classmates» skin, says Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, an education professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who researches race, stratification and inequality in American schools.

However, if we examine the subset of Arizona elementary schools that educate both white and ELL students, ELL test - takers trailed their white classmates by only 27 percentage points.

No matter who you're shopping for, the right book is waiting.WHITE HOUSE HISTORYAs an elementary school student, I had the good fortune to be part of a private White House Christmas tour led by my classmate's aunt, who was First Lady Pat Nixon's press secretary.

THE APPROACH Bill Lynch had a show at White Columns in New York in 2014, organized by the painter Verne Dawson, a classmate at Cooper Union in the 1970s.

Twelve - year - old Serra Williams says her mostly white classmates once taunted a police officer by yelling out «Black Lives Matter» from a bus.