Sentences with phrase «community along racial lines»

No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson Director: Steve James Steve James returns to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia to examine the 1993 bowling alley brawl that landed Allen Iverson, the nation's top high - school basketball player, in jail and divided the community along racial lines.

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«Prohibition and the resulting «drug war» have unjustly incarcerated countless individuals and scarred communities, often along racial and class lines, while draining resources from society,» said Hawkins.

The result is an opportunity gap and divide along racial and class lines that threatens the future of our communities, economy, and democracy.

In her remarks she stated, «More than 60 years have passed since Brown v. Board of Education and our nation's schools and communities still suffer from the vestiges of school segregation and many of our largest school districts remain starkly separated along racial and economic lines.

As the department has stated publicly, «many schools and communities continue to suffer the effects of racial segregation, and that many of our nation's largest school districts remain starkly segregated along racial and economic lines.»