Sentences with phrase «from civil rights»

Facebook is facing a lawsuit from civil rights groups that claim the company's ad practices enable discriminatory housing practices.

Thanks to efforts from civil rights and criminal - justice - reform organizations, the Obama administration signed onto the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the drug quantity ratio between powder and crack cocaine that triggers the mandatory minimums from 100 - 1 to 18 - 1.

According to Kesten, this is useful for lawyers because malicious prosecution has a different statute of limitations and different elements of proof from a civil rights action.

NJ Supreme Court Rules Police Officers Entitled to Qualified Immunity from Civil Rights Claims

During his clerkship, Stephen was responsible for hundreds of complex civil and criminal cases and participated in trials covering areas from civil rights to patents.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1964, Jenkins went about as far away from civil rights as a lawyer could.

Many of the laws that resulted from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s found their support and inspiration in this amendment.

These leaders had learned their tactics from civil rights leaders they knew, and from campaigns they themselves had participated in.

non-violent Civil Disobedience has proved effective in creating change in issues ranging from Civil Rights here in the US, to the freeing of India from Colonial rule.

Nature has an inherent right to exist that is indistinguishable from the civil rights we demand be extended to other men.

Thomas's artworks are inspired by a variety of subject matter from the civil rights movement to the United States space program (NASA) to the daily experience of her Washington, DC garden.

Mr. Avedon's taxonomies of the human spirit, feats of high contrast and ingenious cropping, range from a civil rights era portrait of a black woman attending a debutante cotillion in New Orleans to an elegant image of the Hollywood starlet Mia Farrow, shot over her bare shoulder and highlighting her bony back.

It includes essays by poets, artists, philosophers and sociologists: from civil rights figures such as the scholar and African - American activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the Trinidadian - American Stokely Carmichael; to writers including Gertrude Stein and Joan Retallack; from artists of different generations such as sound poet Hugo Ball (who wrote one of the founding Dada manifestos), Ad Reinhardt, Joan Jonas, William Pope.L and Felix Gonzalez - Torres; to new essays by curators Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Susan Thompson, Jenny Schlenzka and the critic Tom McDonough.

This workshop draws inspiration from Leslie Hewitt's lithographs, sourced from Civil Rights era photographs housed at the Menil Collection in Houston,...

Social and cultural currency registers throughout his oeuvre, from the Civil Rights Movement early on, to Sept. 11 and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, to President Obama.

This panel is presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art and the DuSable Museum of African American History, «South Side Stories: Rethinking Chicago Art, 1960 — 1980» and «South Side Stories: Holdings», which focuses on the Black Arts Movement — from the Civil Rights Movement to AfriCOBRA.

Through nearly 100 objects, the show aims to upend dominant narratives of the period and to unearth rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Imagined Communities includes Hank Willis Thomas's reflective mirror pieces which appropriate imagery from the civil rights era, George W. Bush's family home as documented by Maggie Shannon and a video by Farideh Sakhaeifar which conflates NASA spaceship launches with ISIS bombings.

Taking us from 1963 to 1983, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Power militancy and calls for revolution, Soul of a Nation is a landmark show.

Some of his very early work, like that seen in a survey called «Light Years: Jack Whitten 1971 - 73,» at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University through Dec. 15, emerged from the civil rights movement.

Using a figurative style and imagery of African Americans in urban, suburban, and interior settings, Marshall's work has often addressed social issues stemming from the Civil Rights movement, evoking the nostalgia and idealism of that era.

A neon abstraction of Barack Obama's eyes hangs high over «Onyx Odyssey,» Jefferson Pinder's new solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, observing the artist's interpretations of historical black male figures from civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to Freddie Gray.

While the early examples draw from American history (from civil rights to Vietnam), many of his later Lynch Fragments reflect his experiences of traveling in Africa and working with African metalsmiths and artists.

Drawing from the gallery's impressive collection, the show, titled «Respect Existence or Expect Resistance,» installed photographs from the Civil Rights movement, an era about which teens and Millennials are largely ignorant.

The color is albers, while the images are from police - brutality cases and landmark court decisions from the civil rights movement.

Hank Willis Thomas (New York) is a conceptual artist working with ideas of identity, history and race, appropriating language and images from the civil rights movement and changing their meaning to expose stereotypes.

In artworks like I Am A White Agitator and Amelia Falling (2016) Willis Thomas employs language and familiar imagery from the Civil Rights era, appropriating historical visual media and stripping it of its context to open up questions of cultural stereotypes, and the way the media perpetuates them.

Jordan Teicher interviews Debi Cornwall about her transition from civil rights lawyer to photographer, and how her former career had informed her project, Welcome to Camp America.

Further highlights from the Feature sector will include multimedia works by South Korean artist Nam June Paik, a survey of the works of Margot Bergman, a series of Poubelle works from the 1970s by Arman, and a spotlight on Gordon Parks, showing dramatic scenes from the Civil Rights movement in America in the 1950s and 1960s.

That can leave a meager history, for all the expected upheavals from the civil rights movement through AIDS.

States of America: Photography from the Civil Rights Movement to the Reagan Era, Nottingham Contemporary, until 26 November.

Soundtracked by Kanye West's gospel hip - hop track «Ultralight Beam», the meticulously edited 7 - minute collage probes the relationship between mainstream media and African - American identity, juxtaposing images of contemporary life in the USA, from civil rights leaders to aeriel footage of the LA Riots.

Bradford's videos and map - like, multilayered paper collages refer not only to the organization of streets and buildings in downtown Los Angeles, but also to images of crowds, ranging from civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s to contemporary protests concerning immigration issues.

And Pop artists also dealt with an extraordinary range of other individual, artistic and historical issues — from sex, love and death to aesthetics, from the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War to feminism.

The seven - part sculptural series What It's Like, What It Is # 2 (1991), commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and not exhibited since 1992, breaks from Piper's Conceptual use of the frame and grid, confronting the viewer with photographic cut - out figures both iconic and anonymous sourced from movements in American History, from the civil rights era to the early 1990s.

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power creates a space for an array of African American artists who were deeply engaged in the aesthetic and social justice issues that emerged from the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era January 11 — August 3 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Signs and protests were inseparable in the 1960s and produced maximum impact when photographed or filmed by the media.

Her artworks are inspired by a range of subject matter from the civil rights movement to the United States Space program to the daily experience of her Washington D.C. garden.

Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era Through September 7, 2014 Complimentary admission

The photographs also follow the evolution of protest from civil rights and black power to Vietnam War demonstrations and, in subsequent decades, rallies fighting South African apartheid.

ASM: Many of your works recontextualize slogans from the civil rights era.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit, and Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

Related Exhibitions: Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Race, Place & Identity, and Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era

Endowed with the executive power of the presidency, Trump has contemptuously tried to undo much of the evolved integrity of U.S. and world governance, from civil rights enforcement to environmental regulation.

Catching Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print, Clare Leighton: From Pencil to Proof to Press, Fabergé Revealed, Hollywood Costume, Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation, Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit, Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era, and Unreal: Conceptual Photographs from the 1970s and 80s

Related Exhibitions: Race, Place & Identity and Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era

Ninety percent of the works featured in Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era were acquired by VMFA in the past three years and emphasize the museum's commitment to diversifying its photography collection.

Related Exhibitions: Catching Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print, Clare Leighton: From Pencil to Proof to Press, Fabergé Revealed, Hollywood Costume, Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation, Posing Beauty in African American Culture, Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit, Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era, and Unreal: Conceptual Photographs from the 1970s and 80s

In 1964 she took hope from the Civil Rights movement and painted its marchers, as a cloud of white against the darkness — and then she returned to her business in abstraction.