Sentences with phrase «from lynching»

«It feels to me like it's a black man running from a lynch mob,» Carmichael says.

The exhibition is Biggers» first museum presentation in New York, and it will also mark the Brooklyn debut of Blossom (2007), a large - scale multimedia installation that incorporates references ranging from lynchings to Buddha's enlightenment under the bodhi tree.

Not exact matches

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

One pro-lynching activist, speaking in 1897 during the heyday of lynching — an extrajudicial form of capital punishment — was more explicit: «If it takes lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from drunken, ravening human beasts... then I say lynch a thousand a week if it becomes necessary.»

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They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

«From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game&raFrom the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game&rafrom the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game»

The whole media lynch mob thing just distracted us from a thoughtful discussion of the issues.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

From that time on, executions took place within the confines of prisons — except for lynchings, which continued in some areas of the country without legal sanction.

Blacks looking at the images of lynching victims took heart from Jesus» suffering on the cross and his resurrection, Cone said.

«White theologians didn't say anything about lynching,» Cone said from his office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he teaches a course on Niebuhr.

Just remember: Why was Joseph Smith lynched, the Mountain Meadows massacurre, Why did Brigham Young keep polygamy a secret if it was directed directly from God, mormon engineers ignoring safety parameters which caused the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, Mormon officials bribing the Olympic committe to get the Winter Olympice in Salt Lake City, the Book of Mormon being revised hundreds of times.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

The entire passion narrative is an account of a traditional lynching with its meaning turned inside out: it's a lynching from the perspective of the innocent one.

Other sacrificers take the sheep without entering through the gate; robbers and thieves, they are not prepared to carry out the sacrificial lynching themselves, but pick off sheep for sacrifice from a safe distance.

Any of us can think of incidents from the playgrounds or the office, as well as larger - scale incidents like riots and lynching.

Did you by chance see any of those black and white photos from back in the 30s at all those black lynchings?

The key problem this season apart from Arsene the loss of our lynch pin Cazorla.

Clyne is the latest player from the south coast club linked with a move away, having dealt with a summer exodus only a year ago and midfield lynch - pin Morgan Schneiderlin's also wanting a move away, according to the Mirror, if Southampton don't finish in the Premier League top four.

One of the suspected ritualists was burnt alive, while two others were rescued by the Police from being lynched on Wednesday.

«I will repeat this statement again, Captain Mahama's death was orchestrated by the President Nana Addo, he ordered the assemblyman to incite the Denkyiraboase residents to lynch the soldier who was preventing the residents from engaging in galamsey, that's the truth, if you attempt, to tell the truth, you become a target of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), they almost killed me at Talensi, during the by - elections years ago,» she alleged.

Even though earlier reports indicated that the soldier was lynched on suspicion of being an armed robber, comments from some Ghanaians, including his wife's tribute suggest otherwise.

Commotion soon started as shield was made in order to secure Senator Tinubu from been lynched by senator Melaye.

Flag bearer of the All People's Congress (APC), Dr Hassan Ayariga has said that lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama by residents of Denkyira - Obuasi will prevent foreign investors from doing business with Ghana.

It is important for you to know that there was a lynch mob, led by now Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, that took Hiram Monserrate to court where he was convicted of assaulting Karla Giraldo, and had him expelled from the New York State Senate.

The State House, where the funeral took place has been filled with tears from family, friends, statesmen and even people who never met the late military officer who was lynched at Denkyira - Obuasi last week Monday.

The saddest part of the lynch mob mentality currently on the prowl is that the «sudden critics» of Alhaji Atiku want to hold him to a different standard, separate from known measures used for others.

The Director General in - charge of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), DCOP Bright Oduro, told DAILY GUIDE that a mobile phone of the deceased — an Iphone 6 — and his pair of boots had been retrieved from the rooms of two suspects spotted in the video lynching the Major.

Class News» regional correspondent, Noah Nash, reported that the deceased escaped from a treatment facility but some young men mistook him for a robber and lynched him.

The charged mob wanted to extract information from the suspect regarding his accomplices in the lynching of a mentally challenged man at Ave Dakpa, a suburb of Aflao.

«At about 17:30 hours, the Police Patrol team returning from Sempoa area reported that, on reaching Hweehwee township, they encountered a rampaging youth numbering about 300 who were attempting to lynch two Fulani men, who were on motorbike returning from Sempoa heading towards Nkawkaw.»

Gen Sani Abacha took corruption fighting into the banking sector (as President Umaru Yar» Adua via CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi would do decades later) and earned the applause of Nigerians gradually accepting media lynching's as relief from the pain of successive abusive governments.

They beat him, and lynch him from a tree, but they don't do a good enough job, and he miraculously survives.

But Jena, population 3,000, is a backwards, backwoods Louisiana town, and when three nooses were found swaying from the tree the very next day, the African - American community complained to anybody who would listen that the hanging ropes amounted to a hate crime given The South's sinful legacy of lynching.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

Near the beginning of the film, after a grim montage of old newsreels and photos of southern black labor and lynching of blacks, a color fade takes us from archival footage of blacks exiting a New Orleans train to a shot of Junior alone with his suitcase in front of the station.

This cult favorite TV movie about a mentally challenged man who's wrongfully killed by a lynch mob while dressed as a scarecrow and seemingly returns from the grave for revenge smartly keeps things low key but still manages to deliver (non-explicit) thrills, buoyed by the scene eating of perennial love - to - hate - him bad guy Charles Durning.

Watching anxiously from the sidelines, Sharon Gaines (Connie Britton) is never sure if her husband will be lauded or lynched for the night's performance.

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Aside from the torturous performance by Blake Lively who plays the girlfriend of the growers and unfortunate lynch pin of the film, the performances here are better than I expected.

«California Federation of Teachers President Marty Hittleman — the same man who called the parent trigger the «lynch mob provision» — confidently predicted to the media that Gov. Brown would immediately remove me (Ben Austin) from the state board because I had used my position to advocate for radical kids - first change,» said Austin.

From the horrors of lynching to the injustice of forced school segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been there fighting for the rights of black people.

«Just one month ago, California Federation of Teachers President Marty Hittleman - the same man who called the Parent Trigger the «lynch mob provision» - confidently predicted to the media that Governor Brown would immediately remove me from the State Board because I had used my position to advocate for radical kids - first change, ominously stating that I would not be serving on the State Board «in a month or so.»

Since 1909, the NAACP has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles in the United States, from ending lynchings to securing Black voting rights and ending school segregation.

In a blog post up now on the New York Times Learning Network, Facing History and Ourselves Senior Program Associate Laura Tavares pairs an article about the recent report documenting the history of racial lynching in America with an excerpt from Harper Lee's best - selling «To Kill a Mockingbird» in order to situate the novel in its historical context and raise important questions about race, justice, and memory today.

Oates is equally unflinching in her inquiry into class and racial conflicts, and in her imaginative and intrepid variations on actual circumstances and crimes, from the limited choices of disadvantaged women in her Detroit - set National Book Award — winning them (1969) to Marilyn Monroe's disastrous celebrity in Blonde (2000) to a tale of the opposite lives of two college students in Black Girl / White Girl (2006) to the JonBenet Ramsey case and the horrors of the tabloid press in My Sister, My Love (2008) to the festering wound of a long - ago New Jersey lynching in The Accursed (2013).

Many black people in America shy away from reading about slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, and racism.

One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one - day trial, and soon bands of white «night riders» launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county.