Sentences with phrase «continued racial divide»

The results showed a continued racial divide — in ninth grade language arts, about 90 percent of white students are in honors, compared to less than 50 percent of black students.

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I predict millennials in particular will continue to drop out of religious life, and the ethnic divides within American Christianity, which many sought to heal with a quick - fix approach to «racial reconciliation» that bypassed repentance and justice, will only widen.

It continues to divide the nation black and white, liberal and conservative, as post-1960s debates over mandatory integration, diversity, and racial preferences remind us.

To heal as a nation and as individuals, we must continue coming together across racial, ethnic, religious and cultural divides.

The number of stop and searches carried out under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has also continued to rise with a marked racial divide.

De Blasio also continues to divide the city along racial lines.

But he added, «the racial divide, which has bedeviled Mayor de Blasio since his first day in office, continues even as he finished his first term.»

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

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I came away from the book with a deeper understanding of the heart of the racial divide that continues to affect us (the United States in particular) to this day.

The author expresses these feelings with intensity and realism, and I came away from the book with a deeper understanding of the heart of the racial divide that continues to affect us (the United States in particular) to this day.

But it is also part of a social history of continuing class and racial divides in Brazil.