Sentences with phrase «for black rights»

Originally unveiled during the 2008 presidential campaign, Trinket takes on a new meaning within the context of an unfolding struggle for black rights in contemporary America.

Malcolm X was an activist for black rights, but his ideas were not quite in line with the more popular notions of other black activists like Martin Luther King.

The Democratic Party has continued to push for black rights, as well as women's and gay rights.

Even after the Civil War, the Republicans continued to push for black rights.

What modern host of the daily sports shock jock collective can not only fight for black rights but also be unapologetic whenever he chooses?

Not exact matches

For instance, he predicts that the «forehead» — the black bar that intrudes into the top of the screen on the iPhone X, where all the cameras and sensors go — is an evolutionary detour on the way to a phone that is all screen, with cameras built right in at the microscopic level.

While Black Box is only offering the workouts in its own gyms in the San Francisco area for right now, it hopes to one day bring VR fitness into homes.

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led a historic march in Washington, D.C. to advocate for civil rights for black Americans.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

Lawmakers and advocates expressed concern Friday that Sessions could sideline or undo the Obama administration's civil rights efforts, which have included investigations of police departments for unconstitutional practices and lawsuits meant to protect the rights of transgender individuals and black voters.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

From her home office, Gloria Baylis — better known as a Black rights activist after she successfully sued the Hilton chain for discrimination in 1966 — imported and distributed medical devices for neurosurgery.

What Ford is selling — via videos featuring models demonstrating the perfect hair curl or selecting the right top for black jeans or exfoliating lips — is expertise.

A protest against violence attacking black communities, the parade was one of the first public marches for civil rights.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

«As such, if you're looking for a Black Friday TV deal, you'd be better off skipping right by the 1080p deals and going straight for the 4K sets.

«My impression is American corporations are generally more eager to stand for gay rights than black rights, and they ought to be equally progressive,» he says.

In excavating the story of King's visit to Harlem Hospital, I uncovered my grandfather's own fight for civil rights — and realized I'd misunderstood his legacy as a black doctor all along.

Activists from the movements for Black lives, immigrant rights, Muslim freedom, and others protesting to save their lives, protect their families, or defend their environment and land can't wait for data protection.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members Reese Tillman, right, and Bucketo Mitchell at a rally outside the Philadelphia Starbucks where one of their fraternity brothers was one of the two black men arrested at for trespassing,

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members Reese Tillman, right, and Bucketo Mitchell at a rally outside the Philadelphia Starbucks where one of their fraternity brothers was one of the two black men arrested at for trespassing, (Tom Gralish / AP)

«Affirming the construction of Site C is the right decision for the future of our province,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

I'm looking high and low for a rental property in Houston that will put me in the black right away AND be in a safe, non-scary neighborhood in somewhat desirable part of the city.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

Wait until you hear about the company's dividend history: Stanley Black & Decker has paid a dividend every year for 140 years — yes, that's right — and has increased it for 49 consecutive years.

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And it's hardly racially balanced: Black students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white students, according to the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, and research in Texas found students who have been suspended are more likely to be held back a grade and drop out of school entirely.

For all of those out there saying this is there Civil rights and compare themselves to blacks, SHUT UP!

Black religious leaders must be in the forefront of the fight for secular rights to be acknowledged and protected.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

This is a free country and it's Mia's God given right to run for Congress as a conservative and a black mormon woman.

Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

I would be lying if there weren't issues in the past regarding the priesthood, however the church has always been an advocate for civil rights and has never thought that blacks were cursed.

I for one have always thought that Obama has little connection to the Black American history, since his father is from Kenya and so Obama has no historical connection with the Civil Rights struggles and what Black Americans went through from one family, one generation, to the next.

For politics, lets see, what party views blacks as the real racists, and hates Martin Luther King and Civil Rights?

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Boy, you got that right, They members are so brainwashed from the cult leaders, they actually believe that one day in 1978 God called down to issue that blacks are ok for the priesthood.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

The civil rights revolution largely succeeded in its effort to eliminate legally enforced second - class citizenship for blacks.

It is a tragic error that those of us who make the «self - help» argument in internal dialogue concerning alternative - development strategies for black Americans are often construed by the political right as making a public argument for a policy of «benign neglect.»

For most of Christian history, the «curse of Ham» found in the OT gave justification for enslaving blacks, rigFor most of Christian history, the «curse of Ham» found in the OT gave justification for enslaving blacks, rigfor enslaving blacks, right?

I grew up in the deep, black, hopeless hell of a god fearing Christian family so I've paid for my right to mock them.

Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end of child labor, the end of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end of segregation, the end of the prohibition of mixed race marriages, and the list goes on and on.

Therefore, we can safely conclude that Dr. King would have embraced gay rights just as powerfully as Coretta had it not been during a time when to be so open about gay rights for a clergyman, especially one who was black and fighting other problems would have left him open to plenty of criticism and worse.

The question of allegiance is a pressing one for the Jesse Jacksons of the black church who must decide who they ultimately represent: the black community, a coalition of ethnic groups, the Democratic Party or a sense of moral right in the universe.

If a black person wants a Klansman to bake a cake for their wedding, the black rights trumps the Klan's right to believe.

The fact is that before the civil rights movement the republicans in the south were recieving plenty of aid, and as soon as the social programs for blacks began kicking in suddenly no one wanted to pay taxes anymore.

Yet, for some strange reason, York god didn't think that black folks or women needed that same right.