Sentences with phrase «facing black communities»

They discuss immigration and the economic choices facing black communities, particularly in the inner city, and lend themselves to ethical debates (questions of what characters believe and how that influences their actions) and issues surrounding racism's depiction in policy and media.

Black Lives Matter seeks to «(re) build» a black liberation movement by affirming, celebrating, and humanizing black lives and by connecting people who work to end injustices facing black communities.

With all of the pressing issues facing the black community, they want to focus on gay marriage — which is a NON-ISSUE!

And Smith said there were much bigger challenges facing the black community - «larger challenges that we have to struggle with» - bringing his full congregation to its feet, with many more amens.

Some created work that directly reflected the urgent concerns facing the black community in American society.

Not exact matches

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

Despite our deep loyalty, black communities continue to be crushed, even in the face of economic recovery.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

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.

I've got to deal with the problems I see all people facing; basically the problems of injustice in the black community.

He has powdered his face to «whiten up» for the Operation Black Vote campaign to warn Britain's ethnic minority communities that not voting will «take the colour out of Britain».

A dwindling North Fork fishing community, faced with the closure of the abundant black sea bass fishery starting tomorrow, is urging state regulators to enact emergency measures to keep it open.

In the radio interview, Paladino insisted that he has «many, many friends in the black community» and that's taken on issues facing the.

The state's powerful Black, Hispanic and Asian caucus is condemning legislative leaders for redrawing Congressional districts in a way that amounts to a «slap in the face» to the minority communities across the state.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

BlackPlanet.com is a site dedicated to the black community and the issues facing them today.

The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

For example, before they even enter our classrooms, black and Latino students from low - income communities face an opportunity gap that affords them unequal access to schools, curricula, and teachers that promote «deeper learning» experiences and STEM dispositions.

Moynihan was convinced that what he was witnessing was fundamentally a phenomenon of the black community, and so could be explained by the tragic history of African Americans, which rendered black families uniquely vulnerable to the kind of social and economic pressures many faced in poor urban environments.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Initially flagged by Nikole Hannah - Jones, this piece remains one of the most vivid examples of the many challenges facing white reporters — even veteran Pulitzer Prize - winning reporters — who cover black and brown communities.

Black and Latino students live disproportionately at or below the poverty line, and it is no accident that we are faced with the most segregated school system in history, with a disproportionate number of school closures happening in the poorest communities - all at the hands of using invalid metrics.

It's not a huge disparity, but Ervin says hiring more black teachers is a priority because they have the lowest retention rate in the district and often feel overwhelmed helping students of color work through issues the students are facing in their community.

It's hard to imagine public authorities closing down 50 schools largely populated by middle class Euro - Americans; but this policy was enacted in the largely black and Latino district of Chicago, and it was done in the face of strong protests by the community.

Segregation allowed black professionals, such as politicians and doctors to thrive in areas where they would be fully supported by their community, and thus more successful than they would be in integrated environments where they may face radicalized pushback (Lacy, 2007).

Treyarch has crafted a totally unique and face - melting gameplay experience for our loyal Zombies community, with Call of Duty: Black Ops III: Zombies — Shadows of Evil.

For one, there is an institutional urgency to speak to a more diverse audience with painting that depicts the black community, the Asian - American experience, the Latino face, to attract the various people who had been excluded from the museum by remaking the history of figurative painting, this time with color.

Responding to the continuing discrimination and violence faced by the LGBTI community, in 2006 Muholi embarked on an ongoing project, Faces and Phases, in which she depicts black lesbian and transgender individuals.

There is a Black Panther poster that shows a majestic photograph of Newton, sitting in a wicker throne, a shotgun in one hand and an African tribal spear in the other, along with a quote: «The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities... or face the wrath of the armed people.»

Just as Parks» served to humanize the black existence in America in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama and Faces and Phases series serves to humanize the daily lives of the LGBTI community from 1994 to 2017.

If these renowned faces make up her current tribe, the seven black and white images from the O Portfolio at Lacma, running until 15 September, provide a glimpse of her old tribe, the lesbian bondage community in San Francisco where Opie went to school in the 80s.

In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how artists during the 1960s and 1970s in Los Angeles» black communities created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism.

In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how artists during the 1960s and 1970s in Los Angeles's black communities created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism.

The iconic magazine honored the artist for his contributions to marginalized and ignored black people in both the American society and art community, something Kerry achieved through bold and in - your - face narrative paintings.

As Muholi writes: «In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility.

«In SOUTH OF PICO, [writer, curator, and professor] Kellie Jones explores how artists in the 1960s and»70s in Los Angeles» black communities created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism... She shows how the work of black Angeleno artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and -LSB-...]

Exhibitions like this one add to a growing regard for excellence in Black creative work, especially as an avenue through which to address larger social justice issues facing racialized communities.

It isn't a simple tale of over-confidence in algorithms in the face of black swan events, but rather a tale of poor communications and siloed researchers that slowed down the ability of the wider community to see and interpret what was going on.

Under the guise of relationship building and becoming familiar faces in the community, TAVIS officers have aggressively assaulted and drawn guns on young people on the streets of their neighbourhoods, performed strip searches in broad daylight, and arbitrarily stopped hundreds of racialized people without cause in public areas to question them and gather intelligence — a practice known as carding, which has been targeted primarily at Toronto's Black community.

BLSA Canada and its chapters at law schools nationwide are concerned by the challenges faced by the black community in the legal profession.

With support from the National Black Child Development Institute, the Cleveland Affiliate will implement health and wellness, family empowerment, and literacy programs, and partner with local schools, early childhood education centers, parents, and caregivers to provide resources to address key issues facing Black children and families throughout Cleveland and surrounding communities in Cuyahoga County through education and advocacy.