Sentences with phrase «by young black people»

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The young girls in the video tell their stories of being deemed «aggressive,» «loud,» «angry,» «unladylike,» and «rude» — all descriptors informed by stereotypes of black women and black people.

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

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.

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

In addition to training students and having awarded an average of three black belts every year over the past 30 years, the Krupas are perhaps the most fulfilled by the impact they've had on their students: «To watch a young person who grew up here go off to college and now make their way in the world is so rewarding,» said Joyce.

Parts of the Metropolitan Police are still «institutionally racist» and young black people continue to be victimised by officers, the mother of...

The adversarial style was particularly prominent in inner - city areas, where the relationship between the police and young black people was shaped by a history of friction, and resulted in proportionately more arrests of black and mixed race youths.

The story of a young black boy growing up in modern Britain who without causing any trouble — without doing anything wrong — found himself being stopped and searched by people in authority time and time and time again.

This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ young persons of color.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

You can sit and watch people go by for hours — the old lady walking her wobbly poodle, the way the man rests his hand on his girlfriend's lower back, the rabbi in his black furry hat perspiring in the heat, the young mom with her whining toddler talking on her mobile phone.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Kool shot past Salem to become the # 1 menthol brand in the U.S., in large part by marketing to younger people and blacks.

The prospective relationship between psychosocial factors and risk of developing hypertension may be confounded or mediated by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors.47 In general, younger persons, blacks (except for TUI), women (except for ASC or hostility), and less educated individuals (except for TUI or ASC) reported higher levels of measured psychosocial attributes.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

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* Among other options, you can find straightforward decency, as evidenced by Captain America (Chris Evans); wayward pilgrims in search of redemption, like Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan); rakes, including Stark and Quill; talented people of privilege learning to carry the mantle of responsibility, including Doctor Strange and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman); goofballs such Ant - Man (Paul Rudd); and promising young people, including Peter Parker and Shuri (Letitia Wright).

Coogler concluded his letter by thanking Black Panther everyone who contributed to the movie's thunderous debut:» For the people who bought out theaters, who posted on social [media] about how lit the film would be, bragged about our awesome cast, picked out outfits to wear, and who stood in line in theaters all over the world before even seeing the film... To the press who wrote about the film for folks who hadn't yet seen it, and encourage audiences to come out... And to the young ones, who came out with their parents, with their mentors, and with their friends... Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: The opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.»

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

For a young, black - and - white pit bull mix, just the right person came driving by at just the right time Wednesday afternoon.

The Geoffrey Young Gallery is pleased to present «The Place of Things,» a three - person show featuring the paintings and drawings of Joshua Marsh, the «longitude - location» paintings of Mike Glier, and new black and white photographs of complex spaces by James Welling.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

This young man is black - and most black people opening the papers or switching on the television would have been struck by Ofili's race first and his medium second.

Albion Africa, African Albion is an exhibition of work created and curated by a group of young people and inspired by the artists in Tate Liverpool's current special exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic.