Sentences with phrase «for racial equality»

It is little wonder, then, that he has taken up the cause of social justice and the spiritual and political fight for racial equality.

Thus, because of the name of the law, over time that has become another term for racial equality.

The organization, once centered on student - focused issues like helping to negotiate better prices at the bookstore, had moved to advocating on a national scale for racial equality.

He fought for racial equality and voting rights, for fair wages and the reproductive rights of women.

From the courageous Swedish and Danish resistance to Nazism to the transformation of Polish society by the Solidarity labor movement, and from the struggle for Indian self - rule led by Gandhi to the struggle for racial equality in the United States led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, nonviolence has been a creative and effective force.

Yet, after his departure, Kennan privately concluded that the U.S. government should not become an advocate for racial equality in South Africa.

«It's even more important that Uber build a company that reflects the multi-racial, multi-cultural character of Oakland and the East Bay community, and its tradition of advocating for racial equality and economic justice.»

Earlier this summer, he made headlines for putting his arm around teammate Malcolm Jenkins during his national anthem protest, explaining to the Philadelphia Inquirer, «I thought it was important that athletes with my skin color stood up with others protesting for racial equality.»

A billionaire snatch and grab passed off as a push for racial equality, the destruction of public education, the foundation of democracy, passed off as a civil rights issue.

Art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin exhibition, The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.

I started my foundation, Eracism, which aims for racial equality.

Rather, it is a plaintive cry for the need to actively engage this problem, for the elevation of concern for racial equality to a position of priority on our government's domestic affairs agenda.

We read books and essays by John Perkins and Cornel West, and we speak out and tweet for racial equality.

He did so much to blaze a trail for racial equality in football and will be missed.

RIP Les Payne, a former Newsday editor and reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner who was a champion for racial equality, who died unexpectedly at his home at the age of 76.

Top billing goes to Trevor Phillips, former chair of the commission for racial equality and current chief executive of the equality and human rights commission.

Following the issue of the Race Relations Amendment Act in 2000, universities in the United Kingdom are required to design policies for racial equality and monitor their progress.

When the Little Rock Nine enrolled in an all - white high school to test the US Supreme Court desegregation ruling, they struck a blow for racial equality that continues to this day.

Through My Eyes, by Ruby Bridges, is also a true story of the fight for racial equality in the United States.

In this talk, art historian Bridget R. Cooks revisits the seminal Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts.

Peaceful grassroots protests for racial equality were met with police violence, as when, in April, high pressure hoses and dogs were turned on students in Birmingham, Alabama.

In his speech, Martin Luther King Jr. called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.

A billionaire snatch and grab passed off as a push for racial equality, the destruction of public education... passed off as a civil rights issue.

The Spiral collective originally formed in response to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, which drew nearly a quarter of a million advocates for racial equality, and marked a critical turning point in the American civil rights movement.

But here the symbolism is confused: photographs of the fight for racial equality in the US hang alongside works such as Meryon (1960 - 1) by the «action» painter Franz Kline.

mo.se.xual verses in Scripture (as their are for racial equality), then there might be a hope to see that happen.

Thankfully, the conservatives, with their love of freedom, took up the fight for racial equality and civil rights... what?

The struggle for racial equality and later the struggle against the Vietnam war drew many leaders from the churches and synagogues, even though the membership as a whole remained passive.

I reminded her of his fight for racial equality and told her that at various points in history, women have had to fight for equal rights too.

I am extremely liberal and 100 % for racial equality, but it's hard to argue with people who will just never change their minds.

The film's 1960s setting aligns its story more with the fight for racial equality, but this franchise has always felt like a parable for the LGBT movement.

First, it is appalling that anyone would dare to equate the billionaire - funded destruction of our most treasured public institutions with the grassroots - led struggles for racial equality to which many of our elders and ancestors made heroic sacrifices.

[ii] Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the artists of Spiral, including Bearden, Lewis, Alston, Ernest Crichlow, and Emma Amos, met regularly to discuss the role art would play in the struggle for racial equality.

On display are documents of the organizing and shaping of the transformative fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s, as captured by the unblinking eye of surveillance.

He fought for racial equality and voting rights, for fair wages and the reproductive rights of women.

I strive to increase my awareness of racial oppression and to fight for racial equality.