Sentences with phrase «by young black males»

It's the tense world of urban Oakland, California, in the early 90s; a basketball court occupied by young black males.

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I observed that young black males attract the «special attention» of law enforcement, and that any population focused on by people with guns — even law enforcers — will suffer a disproportionate amount of police violence.

Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new study by a Michigan State University education scholar.

(Mostly black, exclusively male, and played by young top - tier musicians, the Studio Band brings a spit - valve - clearing, floor - tom - tuning authenticity that grounds the film in jazz's social and physical reality.)

For young black males, adolescence is a trying endeavor... Most will have an encounter with law enforcement before they are 15, have a sexual experience before they are 14, be approached by gangs before they are 13, and have no male in the home (if they ever had one) by the age of 12.

The grim statistics are well known but bear repeating: In Chicago, close to 60 % of young Black men do not graduate from high school; only 6 % of Black males in the ninth grade will earn a bachelor's degree by age 25; and nearly half of Black males between the ages of 20 and 24 are both unemployed and out of school.

candidates Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton were named finalists by Echoing Green for the Black Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achieveBlack Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achieveblack men with purpose and increase their academic achievement.

By 2011, nearly two years after the Great Recession, more than one - quarter of young black males were neither employed nor enrolled in school or vocational training.

In his book, Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species, J.T. Gibbs writes, «the majority of African American males, particularly those in urban centers, are categorized and stereotyped by the five Ds: dumb, deprived, dangerous, deviant, and disturbed.»

When the conversation is disaggregated by race, the outcomes are even more disparate for black and Latino young males.

Hopefully it will be warmly embraced by young and old, rich and poor, male and female, black, white, brown, yellow, or of whatever orientation — religious, political or any other differentiating metric you like — and will be a mega hit, enabling me to infuriate my critics as well as the angry throng of clowns that continues to congregate on my front lawn once I've had a few pops to take the edge off (and don't tell me we haven't all been there).

Within this matrix - like construct, Neptune references an absent mythical norm defined by the Black feminist, Audre Lorde as ««white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure.»

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

2015 Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American Women, Allentown Art Museum of The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum of Art, New York, USA Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA Status Quo, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Breath / Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, USA To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

First, Pindell — a black woman — publicly opposed a show at Artists Space in New York entitled, «The N **** R Drawings,» which featured charcoal drawings by a young, white, male artist named Donald Newman.

But Fort Gansevoort flips the script on millennia of male - dominated athletics with art works by thirty - one women made between the mid-twentieth century and now, from Elizabeth Catlett's jubilant 1958 print of a barefoot girl jumping rope to a just - finished collage of a pigtailed boxer by Deborah Roberts, a young artist who borrows the Dadaist strategies of Hannah Höch for the era of Black Lives Matter.