Sentences with phrase «from african»

Based on real personalities like Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy's Jewish Secretary of State and spymaster, and on historical facts and events ranging from an African - American spy network to the dramatic self - destruction of the city of Richmond, All Other Nights is a gripping and suspenseful story of men and women driven to the extreme limits of loyalty and betrayal.

Generally, flights coming from African continent, Asia and sub regions, the Middle East and islands of the Indian Ocean, and flights coming from any other country where mosquito borne diseases are prevalent.

Over the past four years, [3] high school students included in this adjusted cohort shifted from African American toward Latino and white.

Along with its tax affiliate, the Alliance for School Choice, the organization published glossy brochures featuring pictures of smiling children of every race, with endorsements from African - American and Democratic politicians, including Sen. Cory Booker, then an upstart city councilman from Newark, New Jersey, who joined the board of Alliance for School Choice in 2002.

Scott saw his support from African - American voters more than double, and Chavous cites Crist's opposition to school choice as a key reason why.

An Associated Press analysis alleging that charter schools perpetuate segregation has drawn backlash from African - American education - reform advocates who consider it misleading.

Were the election to draw an electorate more traditionally aligned to the Democratic Party — with higher participation from the African American and Latino community and more support from younger voters and single mothers — the results may have been different but not assured.

We met with much suspicion from the African - American community who feared the school would set admissions criteria that would result in a public school that looked like the local private school.

'' from the African - American Intellectual History Society left me conflicted.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

Additional equity work has included encouraging more involvement from African American families, facilitating courageous conversations among parents, and encouraging the PTA to become more diverse.

The first, Jones explained, is aligning budget allocations with what they're learning from African - American male students.

KIPP NJ schools are serving comparable or greater numbers of students who qualify for free lunch, have special needs or come from African American or Latino demographics than the Newark and Camden school districts.

Reading Ibram X. Kendi's blog «Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea» from the African - American Intellectual History Society left me conflicted.

The teachers union received some of its strongest support from African - Americans, with 76 percent of black voters backing the CTU and just 8 percent supporting the mayor.

This is a Power Point with 40 slides - all images of Jesus from an African perspective.

Over 12 consecutive years, eLearning Africa has hosted 16,228 participants from 100 + different countries around the world, with over 85 % coming from the African continent.

According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

The outcome provided advocates with not only a high - profile laboratory for the idea, but also fresh evidence that a political strategy aimed at fusing support from African - American urban leaders to a coalition of Republican groups can work under certain circumstances.

This ancient wisdom from an African tribe, speaks a lot — addressing a role of the past we all bring with us, especially the past linked with hard, painful and traumatic experiences as these of war and violence surely are.

The word «kwanzaa» comes from an African phrase, matunda ya kwanza.

Some of the speakers from the 2013 conference included: the AVU Rector, Ms. Fenny W. S. Mwakisha, the Director of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education, Kenya, Dr Beatrice Njenga from the African Union Commission (AUC), Daphne Koller, Stanford University Professor of Computer Science and Co-Founder and co-CEO of Coursera and Professor Chiedu Mafiana of the Nigerian University Commission.

The demographic profile of the 400 students Weigand serves is shifting dramatically in ethnicity from African - American to Hispanic.

«The prevailing theory, which I didn't believe, was that immigrant kids in the U.S. pick up oppositional attitudes from African American peers who are supposedly entrenched in an anti-school counterculture.»

While the 42 percent rate of math proficiency for U.S. white students is much higher than the averages for students from African American and Hispanic backgrounds, U.S. white students are still surpassed by all students in 16 other countries.

E.B. is a refugee from an African country.

H.M. is a 17 year old refugee student from an African country.

We were young people with different inspirations and influences, deriving lessons from African, Cuban and Asian liberation experiences.

Despite widespread community support, especially from African American and Latino parents, Parent Revolution has harsh detractors.

In the recent past the Somali government with support from the African Union and the United Nations has made positive strides towards resolving its two decades protracted conflict by containing the high level of violence and its complex humanitarian crisis.

Despite the resolution allowing the AU to increase its forces from 8,00 0 to 17,731 it denied AMISOM the right of civilian protection despite pressure from the African Union.

Wakanda and the Black Panther / King T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) must take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if keeping their existence a secret has kept the world safer (it keeps the nation's technological advancements out of the hands of those who would use them for harm), or if they are guilty of ignoring the black suffering that has been endured across the planet by those who descend from the African motherland.

She won that year's Best Actress trophy from the African - American Film Critics, and also scored nods from the Women Film Critics Circle and the Black Reel Awards.

In a time of continued racial strife exasperated by tiresome leaders, the cinematic fantasy of an African hero from an African nation, all in the backdrop of the familiar «MCU,» will be oxygen in a suffocating cultural climate.

Writer / director / actor Rob Reiner will receive the first ever Stanley Kramer Award for Social Justice from the African American Film Critics Association.

If you are interested in reactions from the African - American community, there is no shortage of published reports on those who support the film and those who are outraged.

Coates draws from African history as a basis for forming the political environment of Wakanda, and Boseman says that they intend to keep that inspiration.

A bright, lively look at college life from the African - American POV, Season One of Dear White People delivers a good set of shows.

The organization creates a platform for movies with universal appeal to the African - American community, while highlighting films produced, written, directed and starring, persons from the African Diaspora.

Although the accents for some of the characters seemed to range from African to Caribbean and then a Cleopatra with a British accent (uh?)

In the ensuing mayhem a mischievous monkey from the African Mammals exhibit steals Larry's keys, leaving the defenseless man to fend for himself amidst troops of bayonet - bearing American Revolutionary Soldiers, swarms of miniscule, poisonous - dart - blowing Mayans and some large - as - life, hungry lions.

before getting some answers from African - American luminaries like Congressman Elijah Cummings (D - MD), University of Maryland President Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, BET talk show host Jeff Johnson, former NFL star Daniel Wilcox and radio personality Butch Jamieson.

After operating with a «15 -3-8» structure, FAAAF Executive Director and Black Reel Awards CEO Tim Gordon announced that the awards will expand from 26 categories to 28, adopting an updated «13 -7-8» structure that will allow the awards to increase the focus on cinema from the African diaspora.

Coogler draws from both African and African - American history and culture but also takes cues from Afrofuturism, Shakespeare, James Bond and even The Lion King.

As an actor coming from the African side of the experience, she said that even there their heritage has been «plagued with images that diminish us and paint us as only needy.»

She arrived at the 90th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in a traditional Eritrean dress as a tribute to her late father who came from the African nation.

Coming - of - age drama «Moonlight» has won the top movie award from the African American Film Critics Association.

In today's film news roundup, «Get Out» wins top awards from the African American Film Critics, Fred Rogers gets a stamp, and Lyor Cohen is selected as a keynoter at SXSW.

Folk Culture and Masculine Identity in Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger An academic analysis from African American Review, by Karen Chandler.

She is meant to be a KENYAN queen with supernatural powers blessed from her African Village but yet they give the role to an AMERICAN actor who is half - WHITE.