Sentences with phrase «from black majority»

Patten says that concerns about inclusivity are coming from black majority church leaders too.

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It's evident from the trailers that there's a huge battle in Wakanda, and that a majority (if not all) of the Avengers go there to fight along with our favorite characters from «Black Panther.»

Trump's reported choice of terminology to describe majority - black countries — while suggesting that more immigrants should come to the U.S. from the very - white Norway — sparked international outrage.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

the majority of Obama's votes came from white people not black people so your assertion is compelte lie.

From the Speed Read: Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

His knowledge of the ways and means of the majority qualified him to develop public policy and, more important, to communicate such policy to blacks on behalf of the city fathers and mothers and to help ensure a favorable response from the black community.

Honestly, I couldn't see the majority of a Baptist congregation (especially Southern Baptist) lobbying to ban a black couple from getting married in the sanctuary.

Protestantism in 1934 included the overwhelming majority of Americans, and today 49 percent of people surveyed tell pollsters they «prefer» various forms of Protestantism — or 58 percent will do so if one includes black Protestantism, though we shall see that formally it differs from other Protestant bodies.

The majority opinion was written by Justice Hugo Black, former Klansman and Senator from Alabama.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

«The enormous literary contribution of homosexuals, the prominence of Jews in courageous social causes of all sorts, the creation of jazz by blacks, all derive in part from the discomfort of being outside the majority culture.»

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

In my week there (the first half of spring break), I found this to be fairly true — when we weren't eating Americanized burritos or (surprisingly good) pizza, the majority of our meals were platters composed of white rice, black beans, coleslaw or pickled vegetables, thick white cheese, slightly sour and tender golden fried plantains and perhaps grilled fish from sodas, or small cafeterias selling «typical» Costa Rican food.

The NBA's progressive stance makes them an outlier among American pro sports leagues, linking them to the concerns of the black communities, where the majority of their players and a sizeable chunk of their fans come from.

The majority of the sock is black, apart from the heel area and the «Physix» tag on the elastic band below the knees.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

Backers say Gregory has the capacity to make news as Suffolk's legislative leader, and would be the first black House member from a majority - Long Island district.

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

Cops are still arresting tens of thousands of New Yorkers — the vast majority black and Latino — for low - level pot possession despite a pledge by de Blasio to move away from such arrests, a new report found.

A study by Operation Black Vote found there are more ethnic minorities than the majority of the incumbent MP in 168 constituencies — up from 99 in 2010.

Long a center of African - American political power, the district is now majority Latino, but the black Mr. Rangel held off two furious challenges from a Latino lawmaker and could sway the race in 2016 if he endorses Mr. Wright.

Redistricting in 2012 changed it from a majority black district to a majority Hispanic district that included parts of the Bronx as well as its traditional Harlem stronghold.

Both legislative leaders said yesterday that her proposals are a template from which to re-start negotiations, although there is a school of thought — one particularly of concern to black and Latino leaders in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan — that Mann's lines will end up standing, since they allow the majorities in both the Senate and Assembly to punt on hard decisions about whose district to eliminate and how.

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

The demographics of the district have changed over the decades: from overwhelmingly black to majority Latino.

«A majority of Democrats, independents, voters from every region and race agree that the Attorney General and not local district attorneys should have authority in cases where unarmed civilians are killed by police officers, although Democrats, New York City voters, blacks and Latinos feel most strongly about this,» Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg said.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Basically, without those seats, a new majority can form amongst the white reformers, Chris Owens from Park Slope (black reformer) and a bunch (but not necessarily all) of the Central Brooklyn AAs.

Mr. Spitzer, a better known candidate who spent millions from his personal fortune on television advertising, won over a majority of black and Hispanic New Yorkers, and voters making under $ 50,000 a year.

He knew he had a problem with black and Latino city legislators, who were bristling from Cuomo's previous cuts to education and Medicaid, so he included $ 62 million for inner - city jobs programs; he held a much stronger hand with Senate Republicans who might object to tax increases on the wealthy — if they weren't so scared of Cuomo's redistricting them out of their narrow majority.

This coincides with the majority of paintings from that period, in which the animal was always painted black or in reddish tones.

Studies from 1915 through to the 1950s suggested that the vast majority of dreams are in black and white.

Perhaps the most surprising result from Hubble's observations is that supermassive black holes must reside in the majority of all normal galaxies.

Tracer applied into Cluster N labeled neuronal somata in the Gld regions of both hemispheres with the vast majority being located on the ipsilateral side relative to Cluster N. On the ipsilateral side, the neurons projecting onto Cluster N (Fig 1C, 2A, shown in green; Fig. 2C, shown in black) were mainly located in lateral and ventral parts of the DLL (Nucleus dorsolateralis anterior thalami, pars lateralis) with few additional connections from the LdOPT (Nucleus lateralis dorsalis nuclei optici principalis thalami) and SpRt (Nucleus suprarotundus).

The majority of my fall wardrobe is burgundy or black (comes from attending the University of South Carolina for my undergraduate degree).

Therefore majority of the black individual look for a partner who comes from the same cultural background.

From the marriage statistics you can see Black, White and Asian all married within their own race the majority of time.

To that effect, black dating sites are specifically designed to connect black singles from around the world — not just African - Americans (although being the majority).

To that effect, black dating sites are specifically designed to connect black singles from around the world — not just african - americans (although being the majority).

Unbeknownst to the majority of the world save for a trusted few, T'Challa is also the Wakandan protector known as the Black Panther, a vibranium - clad hero entrusted to keep his people safe from the prying eyes outsiders.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

Riddick easily puts the series back on track, with its much - needed R - rating and cheesy one - liners, but a majority of the film feels like rehashed segments lifted directly from Pitch Black, without much creativity.

The Student Interaction Plan, which was designed to encourage visits once a month between students in majority black schools and majority white schools, was only implemented for a few years (with minimal participation), and was cut entirely from the budget in 1994.

If so, such an opinion would be especially compelling coming from the pen of Justice Thomas, the lone black member of the Court, who has written for the majority in a number of important cases involving religion and education.

If DOJ officials truly care about racial integration, then they should heed the calls from the Black Alliance for Educational Options, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Lamar Alexander, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Washington Post and others to withdraw the lawsuit altogether.