Sentences with phrase «called black lives matter»

Delivering the union leadership's rationale against the resolution, LeRoy Barr, the Assistant Secretary of the UFT and the chair of the ruling Unity caucus, called Black Lives Matter a «divisive» issue.

Capping off a weekend of inflammatory comments after the Dallas police shooting, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Black Lives Matter «inherently racist» and «anti-American» — and incorrectly claimed black children have «a 99 % chance» of killing each other.

Not exact matches

But he called the remarks hypocritical, considering Clarke had tied rhetoric from Obama and Black Lives Matter activists to violence for years.

A conservative firebrand known for his cowboy hat, Clarke has called himself «one of those bare - knuckles fighters» and has been critical of what he called the «hateful ideology» of the Black Lives Matters movement.

The second definition would be Black Lives Matters a decentralized movement that maintains its momentum by having local organizers and activists take on a clarion call to people in their own spaces.

At the beginning of the year, activist Michelle Higgins took the stage at the Urbana missions conference and issued a call to action: all Christians, she said, should support the Black Lives Matter movement.

The ad also called on the media to ask Schumer about his relationship to George Soros, Al Sharpton, Black Lives Matter, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

A rally to call for the ouster of Carl P. Paladino from the Buffalo School Board drew support from a wide variety of community groups, from teachers and parents to labor groups and the local affiliate of Black Lives Matter.

Someone not schooled in the Alice in Wonderland nature of New York politics might, in the era of Black Lives Matter and democratic socialism, call this cognitive dissonance.

Last week, Jackson criticized one of his own campaign outreach workers, who is a registered Republican, for posting Facebook messages from a pro-Trump group calling Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton a liar and criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.

At 9 a.m., actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, NYC Councilman Robert Corny and representatives of the groups Black Lives Matter and The Coalition for African Peace and Justice hold a news conference to call for federal officials to send humanitarian aid and take further action in response to attacks in Nigeria by supporters of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

And outside City Hall today, Occupy Wall Street inspired protesters have set up camp calling for Bratton's firing, citing a myriad of issues and hoisting Black Lives Matter banners.

Vice President Joe Biden rebuffed Giuliani's comments describing the Black Lives Matter movement as «inherently racist,» calling that «a very broad statement.»

Washington (CNN) Vice President Joe Biden on Monday rebuffed comments by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani describing the Black Lives Matter movement as «inherently racist,» calling it «a very broad statement.»

I don't support a white supremacist's view of discrimination and bigotry as I don't support Black Lives Matter's hate and call for killing law enforcement personnel.

Black Lives Matter protesters are calling for the Syracuse police officer to be fired and charges brought against him.

«At a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national rallying cry for racial justice, Kalief's story reminds us of how deeply and painfully black life can be devalued within the country we call home.&rBlack Lives Matter has become a national rallying cry for racial justice, Kalief's story reminds us of how deeply and painfully black life can be devalued within the country we call home.&rblack life can be devalued within the country we call home.»

And it sparked protests by Black Lives Matter, among other groups, calling for improved police - community relations.

It's also timely, when hardly a day goes by without police - civilian relations being called out and «Black Lives Matter» being a movement that has no reason to disappear anytime soon.

That's why, after leading Black Lives Matter St. Paul, Minn., I left the organization over their call to eliminate charter schools.

Recent developments have galvanized people anew to address the racial achievement gap, from a jarring 2013 report called» Race to Equity» that showed the gulf in quality of life between whites and blacks is wider here than nationally, to the current «Black Lives Matter» movement, which has called out racial inequities in numerous public institutions, including schools.

A coalition of groups that includes the Black Lives Matter network has released an education policy platform calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring the country to provide a «fully funded education» in order to ensure adequate and appropriate educational resources.

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

Whereas, in support of that movement, a local group of parents and teachers has come together to proclaim a day of action, affirmation, and solidarity, to be called «Black Lives Matter At School,» as outlined in the attached memorandum; and

In the wake of a devastating segment by John Oliver on the charter school business, and calls from civil rights groups like the NAACP and Black Lives Matter, the public is finally starting to question the wisdom of funding two parallel school systems when public resources are in such short supply.

Why did Black Lives Matter and the NAACP call for an end to more charter schools?

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At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue - black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light - skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that «what you do to children matters.

Taylor, too, takes inspiration from Black Lives Matter, and Schutz calls another work in the show Shame.

That decision sparked a two - week protest by Black Lives Matter outside police headquarters in Toronto, calling for the release of the report and demanding an inquest into Mr. Loku's death.

Presumably in an effort to fan the flames of racial division and undermine national unity in America, a Russian government - linked «troll farm» has just been exposed for reportedly buying Facebook ads on behalf of the so - called «Black Lives Matter» movement.