Sentences with phrase «continuing racial inequality»

Their response has been to promulgate a de facto doctrine of «benign neglect» on the issue of continuing racial inequality.

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After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

Today, racial inequality has continued to stratify.

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

Septima Clark's biography, vividly portrayed in Charron's dissertation, resonates deeply today, as we continue to struggle with racial inequality in education.

Continuing on from reminiscing about her childhood, she expresses her concerns on the racial inequalities that surface within the Hartford school system, though first taking the chance to say that though she hates white people and does not care whether white teachers hate her or her children, «All I want from teachers is education.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

In the years since Dylan wrote that lyric, the nation has continued to deal with various degrees of racial and gender inequality.

Painted in the immediate aftermath of the 1960s civil rights movement, and at a time of continued racial and gender inequality, Renoir is a powerful proclamation of a new era in artistic representation.

The Lawyers» Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity - work that continues to be vital today.

Due to this continued inequality the Committee has emphasised that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination places obligations on nations to take all appropriate means to combat and eliminate discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and has called on nations to: