Sentences with phrase «ethnic communities with»

Program puts entrepreneurs into ethnic communities with which they're familiar.

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Almost 80,000 people live in this community with a range of ethnic backgrounds.
Thus fundamentalists are not only at odds with the more liberal sections of their own religious or ethnic community but they disagree also with fundamentalists of other persuasions, although they share a similar mind set.
And even if there are valid arguments in support of churches with a predominant ethnic group, still the wider Christian community often falters when it comes to demonstrating unity in Christ.
Yet each of these ethnic communities will deal with the 2010 vote in different ways.
The global market with «neo-liberal» developments have weakened liberal democratic subjecthood for individual persons, powerless groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, local communities.
While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.
It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).
Even then the Russian Empire was a demographic mixing bowl, with communities of ethnic Poles or Germans in the remotest provinces.
The global market with its «neo-liberal» developments has weakened the liberal democratic subjecthood of individual persons, powerless groups such as racial and ethnic minorities, and local communities.
Honestly, their are enough whites that can live well and happy in a mixed community and can be loving neighbors with families of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.
The UM Book of Discipline's homophobia is highly offensive, and other slurs against people with disabilities, or of racial and ethnic groups (all of these communities overlap and intersect / contain LGBT persons) wouldn't be allowed, so why is this?
A secular political culture couldn't be created overnight, and in the meantime citizens with political demands could only organize themselves in overtly religious, linguistic, and ethnic communities.
It suggests that each ethnic community can be itself with integrity and pride and contribute its distinctiveness to the whole without derogation of the contributions of others and without divisiveness.
Plans are being laid out which could see pupils who come from a single ethnic or religious community required to mix with children from other backgrounds.
In practice, she supports local ethnic communities, particularly Afro - Colombian peoples, with programs to help them to revive and preserve their ancestral knowledge and ingredients (many of which have become forgotten or disused), nurturing sustainable agricultural entrepreneurship, and helping them find routes to market.
He now makes the best of it, especially in Miami where, together with eyes as dark as a raccoon's and a name you can't quite pin down, it gives him a handsome ethnic look that attracts invitations for appearances from the area's active Jewish community.
The BabyFather Initiative Barnardo's BabyFather Initiative engages directly with ethnic minority fathers, many of them young, offering a range of parenting and other community based activities and services; and also supplying relevant training and consultancy services direct to professionals.
Cultural programs occur throughout the year and are created in partnership with Chicago's diverse cultural and ethnic communities.
The dairy reps acknowledged how they target African - American and Hispanic communities with a «drink more milk» message, which I found particularly disturbing as both ethnic groups have high rates of lactose intolerance.
Sheila said, «With a clear vision of what we are seeking to achieve I believe we can encourage the most talented, across the whole community to become part of our profession — we need to have more women, more young people, more from ethnic backgrounds and more representatives of those who have mobility impairments working in our industry.
However, in a country with such a diverse range of ethnic and religious groups as Britain, religious schools serve as a method for the perpetuation of the self - isolation of communities.
Which is one reason that campaigns tend to focus on the big venues like Facebook and Twitter and ignore the plethora of smaller networks unless they meet a particular need (for instance, connecting with an ethnic - or interest - based community).
, fighting for policies supporting the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including immigrants and working families, and building bridges with diverse communities to enhance racial and ethnic harmony.»
It warns that the target of providing three million pensioners with the credit by 2006 has been missed, but notes that some of this is due to people, particularly in the less deprived areas or among ethnic minority communities, making a conscious choice not to take it.
«Lancman said the blatant attempt to deceive Jewish voters would backfire not only with the Jewish community, but with all voters in Queens who will reject this effort to exploit racial, ethnic and religious differences for electoral gain,» the statement said.
Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».
Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.
The concerns about new buildings and new residents overtaxing schools, sewers and subway lines are the same as with Astoria Cove, as are the fears of losing the very features that define New York City neighborhoods, make them attractive to outsiders and beloved to longtime residents — their architecture, their ethnic flavor, the familiarity and affection between members of a cohesive community.
His visit, organized jointly by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Office of the Brooklyn District Attorney, was the second installment of «Newsmakers 2015,» a roundtable series with CCEM members and elected officials, stakeholders and leaders as funded by the Revson Foundation.
give them the basic criteria for drawing lines, maps with villages, townships and communities, zip codes, color coat the maps with ethnic criteria and population blocks.
The Center for Urban Research at CUNY has also published new online maps showcasing New York City voting patterns and demographics, in partnership with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.
You can determine information with regard to how the future of the schools appeared, turnover the next ten years in addition to that, there's ethnic breakdowns and you're going to want to preserve communities of interest,» said Mohr.
To view a 2015 interview with DA Kenneth Thompson at the Center of Community and Ethnic Media at the City University of New York, please visit http://bit.ly/2ec3zmZ.
Margaret Hodge today bowed out of the battle to become London Mayor, with a call for Boris Johnson's successor to be someone from the city's black and minority ethnic community.
One of the core political theories of this type is «nationalism» in which one or more populations, often with an ethnic or religious foundation, within a state develop a sense of community and identity that corresponds to citizenship, more or less, rather than arbitrary politically drawn boundaries.
Public scepticism has been re-enforced by the blockbuster accusation by General T.Y Danjuma, former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister that the Nigerian Military under Buhari are «colluding» with «armed bandits» (read Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen) to carry out ethnic cleansing across communities in central Nigeria!
They won control of the council last year and I know from my time working with Ealing's Conservative activists that over many years they have worked tirelessly to build relations with local ethnic communities.
Jessica Ramos, who previously served as director of community and ethnic media for Mayor Bill de Blasio, is challenging Queens State Senator Jose Peralta, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats in a power - sharing agreement with the Senate GOP.
The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy had called for a majority Asian Senate seat to represent the people with ethnic backgrounds ranging from Chinese to Bangladeshi whose population has soared.
Up for debate is the Community Safety Act, which would create a new NYPD inspector general charged with monitoring the department and providing independent oversight, following growing complaints over racial and ethnic profiling.
They annexed Austria and then the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia with the support of these ethnic German communities and without military arms, since the Allies were trying to use appeasement with Germany and convinced the Czech government not to fight.
The paper has always had great immigrant - group coverage, with reporters who speak the languages of many of New York's diverse ethnic communities.
The Common Cause proposal would directly task LATFOR with drawing districts for the Senate, Assembly and Congress that consider «communities of interest,» such as ethnic neighborhoods of similar towns, and forbid it from considering addresses of incumbents or the partisan enrollment of voters in a given area.
Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.
Just one week after her State of the City address — and a day after holding a joint roundtable with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Nisha Agarwal at City Hall — Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito took part in an open discussion with community and ethnic media members.
This is because we are simply fed up with the sheer barbarity and cruelty of powerful and well - armed ethnic militias like the Fulani herdsmen, terrorist organizations like Boko Haram, aggressive, violent, intemperate and intolerant land - grabbing settlers like the Hausa Fulani communities dotted all over the Middle Belt and the south and the excesses and genocidal tendencies of our northern - led security agencies and Armed Forces.
Just because you are not of a racial and ethnic group does not mean you are aren't in tune with the needs of the community
Grant's defense lawyer, John Meringolo, declined to comment, but law enforcement sources said they expected O'Neill would be asked about NYPD practices in dealing with precinct residents and various religious and ethnic communities.
The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.
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