Sentences with phrase «color barrier by»

Chadwick Boseman plays the baseball great, who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier by joining the Dodgers in 1947.

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By promoting health equity, which will aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health for women of color in the D.C. Metro Area, we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said: «The Emerging Managers bill intends to bring our State procurement process into the 21st Century by removing barriers that have historically prevented women and persons of color from reaching full economic parity with respect to contracting opportunities in this State.

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.

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Love is not defined by complexion or race; it breaks all the barriers and surpasses all the confines of race and color.

Other barriers, Kim said, include attempts, mostly by white people, to empathize with people of color by offering their own experience with discrimination rather than just listening.

The Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 states, «No state shall deny equal educational opportunity on account of his / her race, color, sex or national origin by... the failure of an educational agency to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation by its students in its instructional program» (20 U.S.C., Section 1703 (f)-RRB-.

New Haven, Conn. — The state Senate passed a bill today that would remove long - standing barriers to teacher certification for talented candidates of color, leaving members of the House to decide by next week if SB 455 will become law.

These are among the findings in a new report by the Learning Policy Institute that examined national data and recent research on the barriers teachers of color face to both entering and staying in the profession.

These are among the findings in this report by the Learning Policy Institute, which examines national data and recent research on the barriers teachers of color face to both entering and staying in the profession.

Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families» breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup.

It's also a nostalgia - fueled trip back to the days of video game design where color code magic barriers that could only be removed by killing the matching colored bad guy were a thing.

Chamberlain broke barriers by introducing color into sculpture.

In many of his paintings, organic - looking forms are hemmed in by rigid geomtric planes of color; thick, bold gestural strokes serve loosely as both directional signposts and visual barriers.

Several panels discussed work by cities, community - based groups, and researchers to identify and address barriers to using bike share, especially among low - income communities and communities of color.

Ten community ambassadors, who are all local residents recruited and trained by the local community - based organizations, have been deployed around the region to raise awareness of bike share and biking in general with residents in communities of color where there are known barriers to entry for bike share.

Researchers also wondered whether residents of color might be especially affected by traffic safety concerns, since they were more likely to perceive distance between starting and ending point as a barrier to using bike share.

The chat, hosted by Better Bike Share and Multicultural Communities for Mobility, was held to talk about barriers to accessing bike share, particularly among low - income communities and communities of color.

Transgender people of color living in poverty are impacted by these trends in specific ways; over 50 % of Black transgender women can expect to be arrested at some point in their lives, and because the world is so gendered and hostile to people who fall outside gender norms, they face numerous barriers to returning to a stable life.

Those hurt most by this political attack will be patients who already face barriers to care, particularly people of color, people with low incomes, and people in rural communities.