Sentences with phrase «conversation about justice»

«Whether they use their influence to keep black lives at the forefront of the conversation about justice, or the silent soldiers who provide strength from within, we are grateful for their leadership, courage and tenacity to break down barriers towards the achievement of equality.»

As a country we must begin a conversation about justice reinvestment, where prison is treated as a last resort and not the first.

By addressing educational disparities from the perspective of educational debt, she reframes the conversation from a deficit conversation to a conversation about justice.

The 2016 Facing History Essay Contest asks students to explore these conversations about justice, about goodness, about living in a divided society, about making difficult choices, and about the possibilities of social change.

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Comey was careful in his written testimony not to make any assertions about whether the president obstructed justice or attempted to obstruct justice in his conversations with the FBI director, outlining what he said the facts of those conversations were.

Comey said he kept memos on his conversations with Trump — a move he said he did not do with two prior presidents or other top Justice Department officials — because he «was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.»

Sean Hannity, the right - wing Fox News personality, has had regular private conversations with President Donald Trump about a classified memo that Republicans say exposes an anti-Trump conspiracy at the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to three sources with knowledge of their conversations who spoke to The Daily Beast.

At about the same time, Pence learned that the Justice Department had warned the White House last month regarding Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Mr. Thiel said, «I figured it would eventually come out,» adding that he was happy his role might spur a conversation about it being «extremely hard for the most common victims to get justice.»

There are many ways to resolve concerns about the deal, a Justice official said on Wednesday, adding that no decision had been made and that conversations with AT&T were continuing.

In a letter sent to the Justice Department on Friday, she demanded the agency detail any conversations it's had with Trump or other White House officials about AT&T, Time Warner and CNN.

Just like he references a conversation he had, about God as follows: «When I talk about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the sky.

My big kids read this book several times and it sparked great conversations about reconciliation and justice for First Nations.

I'd like to see more social justice issues covered: we need to be having conversations about modern day slavery and sex trafficking.

If we can't have these conversations from the teaching platforms at Christian colleges, then what are we saying about our pursuit of truth and justice?

Moore has become a constant and important voice in the conversation about criminal justice reform, especially among professional athletes.

Children's books about fairness are sure to strike up great conversations about equality, fairness, and justice.

My doula work is committed to supporting those who are traditionally left out of conversations about their rights and choices around reproductive justice — especially women of color, trans and queer - identified people.

As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.

The special counsel also told Trump's lawyers that he is preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations.»

Three House Republican committee chairmen want the Justice Department to provide them with copies of memos written by Comey about his conversations with Trump.

«Change does not happen without an honest conversation in our communities, in our courthouses, at City Hall about how we have real reform in the criminal justice system, real reform in our communities and real relationships between NYPD and the people they serve,» Tina Luongo, attorney - in - chief for Legal Aid Society Criminal Practice, the plaintiff in the court case, said.

«These discussions and demonstrations are part of an unprecedented nationwide conversation about reform of police practices and the American criminal justice system.»

Some advocates for closing the jail are concerned about the growing involvement of the real estate industry, afraid it might overshadow the issues of criminal justice reform that should be driving the conversation.

«So I'm trying to change what's happening right now — that we are having a really important national conversation about how we can listen to survivors, hear their stories, create space for them to tell their stories and then to have processes for when we can get justice.»

This week on the Campbell Conversations, a conversation with Angela Hattery and Earl Smith, two researchers who have written a new book about the systemic racism in the criminal justice system.

The killings of African American citizens by local police have generated a more broad, national conversation about race and the criminal justice system.

Ramos said she's helped «spark important conversations among neighbors about justice and equality, sustainability and our quality of life» and hopes to continue to work on affordability issues and improve traffic safety in the neighborhood, she said.

We won these votes by reaching out and having conversations one - on - one with people about a vision for economic justice in our city.

I have a lot to say about the juvenile justice and foster care system, and I hope we can continue this conversation on our blogging journey together.

I love to cultural events, dancing, movies and am passionate about social justice, and love meaningful conversation.

There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice - loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.

The five questions below are designed to help you think about social justice as an educator and inspire conversation.

This is the kind of book that'll launch conversations and reflections about freedom, justice, fairness, and democracy.

Levinson's team has posted a number of other case studies on Justice in Schools and published still more in Dilemmas of Educational Ethics, specifically to help educators, administrators, parents, and even students themselves have productive conversations about hard decisions.

So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in classrooms to address issues of literacy, race, and social justice.

The guidance issued today by the Departments of Education and Justice adds another voice to an ongoing conversation about how gender identity is addressed, and expresses an interpretation of Title IX that is unsettled law.

Ladson - Billings inspires the question: how might the conversation about supporting struggling students be different if it came from a place of moral, political, and economic justice, in reparation for the historic oppression that has led to the achievement gap?

Continue the conversation about equality and justice — and put your experiences to work — through Facing History Together.

Along with Steve Barr and Marshall Tuck, I was part of important conversations about how labor leaders, truly progressive labor leaders, could work for educational justice through our education reform work.

She is passionate about utilizing social justice as a way through the broken systems of education, and co-facilitates a national conversation with other social justice teachers for the Teacher Leadership Initiative via NEA and the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ).

Groups of students from the two schools met throughout the year, sharing aspects of their identity and experiences while engaging in conversations about social justice and what it means to be an upstander.

This fascinating, deeply troubling book has the power to spark a national conversation about how our criminal justice system fails victims, and how it can be reformed.»

A character who the player has spent dozens of hours saving, helping, fighting battles with, leveling up, and talking to in longform conversations about environmental justice is dead.

Come together to view Rodney McMillian's timely exhibition Against a Civic Death, then take part in a conversation about art, politics, and race with Chas Moore, founder of the Austin Justice Coalition.

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Not only does Crump do justice to the critical literature, but time and again he contributes new information about Welling's practice based on extensive conversations with the artist and provides insights into the work that even the most informed and sophisticated reader can only be grateful for.

«Through her monumental paintings, Abney gives us the chance to have a meaningful conversation about issues of racial violence and social justice.»

The conversations that lawyers should be having about access to justice should be about the law itself — the stuff that other people don't understand and can't work with.

I also think it's fantastic to see PLEI being discussed in the conversations about improving access to justice.