Sentences with phrase «facing black citizens»

You can feel the trepidation of director, Ana DuVernay, and screenwriter, Paul Webb, bleed through in this scene as King and his wife, Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo), discuss the hardships facing black citizens in America and the indulgence of the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

Not exact matches

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

While thousands of so - called «interested» citizens ignored the persistent problems these Black children faced, we (Mastery Charter Schools) jumped into the arena with our families, rolled up our sleeves, and got to work.