Sentences with phrase «for black studies»

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According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

In a study of CMOs, nearly a third of respondents said the «black box» nature of many analytical tools, which makes it difficult for marketers to understand the results they generate, were a primary limitation on their marketing efficacy.

The study also found that people do get excited for shopping over the Black Friday weekend; more importantly, they stay interested well into December.

Blacks in Minneapolis were 8.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low - level offenses, such as trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to a study of arrests from 2012 to 2014 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota published last year.

In a study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages, for the underlying components of the S&P 500, Charter Communications Inc has taken over the # 102 spot from Stanley Black & Decker Inc, according to ETF Channel.

Fun fact: Racheal is also a Solar System Ambassador for NASA / JPL and loves studying nebulas, black holes, exoplanets and the planet Jupiter.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

Michael Battle is assistant professor of spirituality and black church studies at Duke University and vice chair of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

My black colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freblack colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freBlack Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freblack merely because of its identification with a general concept of freedom.

For example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetFor example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathblack pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetfor the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathBlack Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathblack preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

Watanabe studied with Serizawa in the 1940s; he received early recognition in a 1947 prize from the Japanese Folk Art Museum for a large black - and - white print depicting Ruth and Naomi.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

She was a seamstress, he was a scholar; she made dresses for white women, he preached the gospel to black folk; she had taken no theology courses to enable her to comprehend God's claim on her, while he had studied so much theology that he was not expected to take God's claims seriously.

catholicism is hate hate hate... they hate blacks, jews, women, children, truth, science, muslims, hate torture, murder, imprisonment for the innocent,... study the history of this disgusting religion and you have centuries of hate,,,,, not love... hate!

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was explicitly abolitionist at its founding, and much early literature of the denomination has recently come back into print for «black studies» programs.

But the debate will likely get more heated when a second > resolution comes up, calling for a study of possible reparations for > black Episcopalians.

The study found that 72 percent of African Americans in predominantly black churches believe that the reasons for racial inequality are structural, rather than an individual's lack of motivation.

White students seem deeply interested in the study and practice of religion, but religion apparently holds little or no appeal for black students.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

These cultural codes and their corresponding traditions are valuable resources for indicating and validating the kind of data upon which womanist theologians can reflect as they bring black women's social, religious, and cultural experience into the discourse of theology, ethics, biblical and religious studies.

Developed in Korea, black garlic has been gaining popularity among Western foodies for several years now, but it has recently caught the eye of the health - minded due to studies revealing its impressive nutritional properties.

Just yesterday I read a summation article of the studies on turmeric and one of the things that has been scientifically proven is, for it to have the advantage to our health, it must be combined or taken with a fat and, even better, a fat and black pepper.

According to the most recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics, 70 % of black children nationwide are born to unmarried mothers, compared with 21 % for whites and 41 % for Hispanics.

The study found that, after controlling for certain factors, black quarterbacks were 38.5 percent more likely than white quarterbacks to change positions.

Ross has been studying and practicing the art of International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Taekwondo for 17 years, is a 4th Degree Black Belt and is one of the youngest ever person to be a certified international instructor in Europe.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

A new study of 2,500 white, Mexican American and black children from low - income families suggests that early spankings make for aggressive toddlers.

The study also finds that black male infants less than 4 months of age are most affected by ASSB, for reasons Shapiro - Mendoza said are still unclear.

A study by Steinberg, Mounts, Lamborn & Dornbusch found strong links between authoritative parenting and positive outcomes for Whites and Hispanics while for Blacks and Asians, stronger connections between Authoritarian and positive outcomes (school performance, social competence.)

The Fleetwood - Jourdain Community Center in Evanston, located in a predominantly black, working - class neighborhood, offers karate, a special coed leadership program for teens, a class that studies plants and leaves, and a full roster of sports.

Interestingly, a study showed that amygdala activation for black faces was greater than white faces when faces were presented to participants for only 30 milliseconds — suggesting automatic emotional responses.

In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.

At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDF)-RRB-.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - AmeStudies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Amestudies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

Students and supporters of the Black Studies Department at SUNY New Paltz gathered in front of the Administration Building on campus yesterday to advocate for the rejuvenation of the department.

That same study looked at 2002 Albany County prison admission rates for drug offenses per 100,000 population and found that 626 blacks were sent to prison compared with 11 whites.

A recent study that ranks Syracuse number one in the country for concentrated poverty among blacks and Latinos has ignited activists, who want city government to do something about creating jobs for residents who live in poverty.

Observations of galaxies today cast a different doubt on black hole dark matter, reports Timothy Brandt, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

The latest studies by Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany show that the black hole's potent gravity has warped G2 into a long, snaking blob, with the leading part already coiled all the way around Sagittarius A *.

My brain was starting to hurt, so I called on Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study, a leading black hole theorist and a neutral third party.

This idea, proposed by Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is called the holographic principle: Just as a two - dimensional hologram can depict a three - dimensional object, the surface of a black hole theoretically reveals everything inside of it.

«Indoor tanning study reveals surprising new at - risk group for skin cancer: Public health research shows non-heterosexual black male teens use indoor tanning at levels equal to Caucasian female teens.»

For this study, Koushiappas and Loeb calculated the redshift at which black hole mergers should no longer be detected assuming only stellar origin.

Hrabowski studied various minority programs in creating his curriculum, including similar programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Uri Treisman's methods, which have improved calculus scores for African Americans at UC - Berkeley.

Because these black particles absorb more heat than white snow, the study of black carbon concentrations in glaciers is important for predicting future melt rates.

To study co-author Krzystof Stanek, the really interesting part of the discovery is the implications it holds for the origins of very massive black holes — the kind that the LIGO experiment detected via gravitational waves.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.

For the last few years, he has studied a gaggle of extremely fast - moving stars, stellar runaways that were long ago flung out of the Milky Way by the massive black hole at its center.