Sentences with phrase «by white supremacists»

AFL - CIO president Richard Trumka became the latest member of President Donald Trump's manufacturing to resign following the president's equivocal response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

De Blasio announced plans for the 90 day review of monuments on city property in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Va., sparked by white supremacists who were opposing the removal of Confederate monuments.

The unrest in Charlottesville spurred by white supremacist groups this month did not have an impact on the decision to remove Carl Paladino from the Buffalo school board, Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Monday in a radio interview.

Earlier this year there were protests over the future of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as well as violent rallies by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, prompting the discussion in Alexandria to progress.

Dear EP Fellows, Alumni, and Friends, The brazen acts of hatred, bigotry, and violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville last weekend disgusted me personally, and were a horrific reminder of how much work we must do to break down the systems and structures in our nation that perpetuate inequality, inequity, and racism.

Cohn took exception to Trump's comments that «all sides» were responsible for clashes at a rally organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to protest the city's plans to remove a Robert E. Lee statue.

Jo Cox was killed in June by white supremacist Thomas Mair while carrying out constituency work.

The image first appeared in a tweet by a user known for anti-black and anti-Muslim messages and gained traction on the internet on a section of the 8Chan web forum frequented by white supremacists.

«Given the events of this week, including the violence and terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the resulting emboldening of the voices of Nazis and white supremacists, I now strongly urge the U.S. Army to reconsider its decision and I call on them to rename these streets,» Cuomo wrote to Acting Secretary Ryan McCarthy.

But that was before the rioting of neo-Nazis, KKK members and other far right groups last weekend in Charlottesville, where a woman was run over and killed by a white supremacist.

Virginia was invaded by white supremacists and Neonazis and Virginians rallied together against their hate.

There's no denying the sad, scary timeliness of Akin's subject matter; although the film is set in Germany, it could easily be relocated to America or any other Western country currently experiencing a spike in violence committed by white supremacists.

The ranch is run by white supremacist.

The 2015 mass killing of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by white supremacist Dylann Roof launched a national conversation about the place of Confederate memorials and symbols in the U.S..

and that its top search result for «Did the Holocaust happen» was a page by the White Supremacist group, Stormfront:

After Trump made equivocal comments about who was to blame for violence at rallies held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, Ken Frazier, the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck, resigned from Trump's manufacturing council Monday.

Co-founder and Executive Director of United We Dream, Cristina Jimenez explains, «Our movement is led by undocumented immigrants and people of color, and under Trump we've seen our members targeted in phishing attacks online and chased by white supremacists out in the streets.»

If Cruz's role is confirmed, the Parkland school shooting would be the second school shooting by a white supremacist in the past two months.

That same day, I learned about more deaths in Syria, about a young man murdered by a white supremacist, about the impact of the famine in Sudan, about problems with my nation's inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women right here at home.

During the briefing Sanders was asked if the president thought the people who kneeled over the weekend were «very fine people,» a callback to his comments following the events in Charlottesville that led to the murder of a nonviolent counter-protestor by a white supremacist.

The committee is also investigating the rise in hate crime across the country, a problem which burst into the public consciousness when Jo Cox was killed in broad daylight by the white supremacist Thomas Mair.

«Heather Heyer's life was taken away by white supremacists who have been emboldened ever since President Trump took office,» said Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, a Democrat.

Nuri and Rocco are killed in an explosion, caused by a makeshift bomb fashioned out of nails, fertilizer, and diesel fuel — the sort of weapon favored by white supremacists who're carrying out terrorist acts on a budget.

And in jail he's adopted by the white supremacist gang, pushed to commit such nasty violence that he cuts off all contact with his family when he's finally released a decade or so later.

Raised by a white supremacist family, John spent most of his youth locked up in a juvenile detention center.

They'll co-star again in Small Great Things, a racially charged drama about a nurse who is sued by a white supremacist couple.

When Biko dies midway through the movie - from beatings inflicted by his white supremacist jailers - Woods takes over as the protagonist.

Inspired by events in Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1959 — when a well - to - do African - American family were violently harassed by white supremacists shortly after moving to the all - white suburb — George Clooney's latest directorial outing could hardly feel more apt.

On another timeline Black Panther would be building on the small triumphs of diversity and equality, but instead it finds itself confronting a reality in which the President of the United States is being endorsed by white supremacists.

While Thor's bastardized version of Norse mythology may not seem like the ideal playground for this director's specific sensibilities — if anything, Nordic symbols and modern Odinism / Asatru tend to be co-opted by white supremacists, owing to their Germanic origins — the malleable nature of Marvel's cultural remixing proves palatable for Waititi's sleight - of - hand abilities, resulting in a film that's part superhero farce, part straight - faced treatise on postcolonial identity.

I can't just write about back - to - school shopping, lesson planning, and business - as - usual while my brothers and sisters in Virginia are being murdered in cold blood by white supremacist American Nazis.

5) Standardized testing was invented by white supremacists and maintains institutional racism today.

(Tragically, when Reconstruction was violently ended by white supremacists, African Americans were then denied equal access to public schooling.

Greene recounts the 1958 bombing of the oldest synagogue in Atlanta, «The Temple,» targeted by white supremacists who were upset by the rabbi presiding there, Jacob Rothschild, and his liberal views on civil rights.

At least one work, Dawoud Bey's «Birmingham Project,» from 2013, is directly related to the city: It commemorates the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church by white supremacists, in which four young girls were killed.

Despite this, one painting in particular is causing righteous furore: Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) crudely depicts the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14 - year - old African - American male brutally abducted and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on 28 August 1955, whose murderers were all acquitted.

There will also be an Exhibition Demonstration at Williamson Knight at 1:00 pm on August 10, the anniversary of the murder of Larnell Bruce who was run over by white supremacists.

In June of 2015, 9 African Americans were shot to death by a white supremacist during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal -LSB-...]

He made the decision to donate to Charlottesville following the violent protests by white supremacists this summer.

«After the deadly and ugly events in Charlottesville I am calling on President Trump to clearly and unequivocally condemn and denounce the violent protest organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis including Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, with support from David Duke,» Cuomo wrote in his online statement posted Sunday.

With the confederate flags and «White Power» stickers on the walls, it quickly becomes clear that the establishment is run and frequented by white supremacists.

«Join me in signing a petition demanding that President Trump acknowledges this hate for what it is: Domestic terrorism willfully perpetrated by white supremacists,» Cuomo said in a statement released through his office.

The new NIOT documentary Waking In Oak Creek (30 minutes, free to schools and communities) provides a powerful example of a how a community came together after six worshippers at a Sikh Temple were killed by a white supremacist.

Virginia was invaded by white supremacists and Neonazis and Virginians rallied together against their hate,» Leavitt said.

But the Parkland massacre was the latest outrage committed by white supremacists, all be it mostly «lone wolves.»

But on Tuesday, before his comments about the rally by white supremacists, Trump had a much different take on the economy.