Sentences with phrase «from racial tension»

Heading into an election year in the US feels like a more polarized society from racial tensions to discrimination of refugees.

While not immune from racial tensions, the student Alma Stone Williams, an African - American woman, is considered by some to be the first black student to enroll in an all - white institution of higher education in the South during the Jim Crow era.

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The campaign suffered a public backlash from the start, with critics accusing the company of using racial tension to sell coffee.

But these harassment issues have come under particular scrutiny in 2016 amidst racial tension through the U.S. and after the ailing Twitter was unable to secure acquisition bids from major media companies due to concerns with the quality of the community on Twitter.

Or, alternately, we choose to think that although God does not like racial tension, he knows how inevitable it is, and therefore he thinks that the races ought to stay away from one another.

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

Season two of the show found the Johnson family discussing everything from racial injustice, the tension that they feel and even the black lives matter movement.

Not because any biological inferiority results from a mixing of racial stocks, but because in the present state of society tensions are more often increased than abated by it, intermarriage is on the whole a step away from the solution of the race problem rather than toward it.

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.

Blackman has been accused of stirring up racial tensions as a result of racial bias for hosting Tapan Gosh, an anti-Islam campaigner from India at a House of Commons event in October 2017.

Long - simmering racial tensions exploded into the foreground Saturday morning, when Assemblyman Keith Wright accused supporters of State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Wright's leading opponent in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, of plotting to «suppress» and block African - Americans from voting in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary.

And political scientists are tracing the influence of cultural tensions arising from immigration and from ethnic, racial and sexual diversity.

«From here on out, it'll be fascinating to watch Homeland present a world in which international tensions are at their highest, especially as issues of racial and religious profiling dominate our real - world headlines...»

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.

We can't excuse The Scalphunters for being a product of its times, not only because we aren't living in 1968 anymore and such arguments transform film criticism into archaeology, but also because there is an entire bushel of films from that same year that needn't any apology, including George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, another pulp action picture with racial tensions bubbling beneath the surface.

Racial tensions are addressed from two different perspectives on home video this week.

It weaves a rich tapestry that also comments on the impact of service in WW2 on two young men from each family, black and white, and simmering racial tensions of the region in that period.

Adapted from the 1983 play by August Wilson, it tells the story of an African - American couple struggling to keep their family unit together amid swirling racial tensions in 1950s Pittsburgh.

Though written by Russell Gewirtz, it is still Lee's joint from beginning to end, and it wouldn't be a Spike Lee film without at least a casual reference to racial tension.

His dilemma is compelling — he's a black security guard in a city being torn apart by racial tension, trying to make nice with white National Guardsmen who treat him like sh*t, and trying to keep a stand - off from going south after a kid shoots a starter pistol during a party.

As the film unfolds, it becomes apparent that it is a beauty wrought from a landscape defined and defiled by longstanding racial tensions.

Racial tensions are heightened as a result of a president who continually makes reprehensible remarks about immigrants from nonwhite countries.

The storylines weave between the two struggling families, but the racial tensions come to a head when Ronsel Jackson returns from a decidedly less racist Europe to a town still mired in violent hatred.

As usual, there's a multitude of tensions bubbling under the placid surface, along class and racial lines as well as the requisite secrets from the past haunting certain folks.

As the Oscar race slowly begins to take shape, there's much talk of prime contenders building a topical «narrative» to fuel their campaigns: Three Billboards is being pitched as a spiky response to the culture of toxic masculinity exemplified by Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlight.

It is possible that some of my chosen social activities, like the Sierra Club, were over-populated with people like myself, so I effectively «shielded» myself from situations where racial tension was more evident.

But as they search for answers from the rural police, they encounter racial and political tensions, greed, corruption, and violence unlike anything they have ever known.

In the quest to recreate a time period rife with extreme racial tension, Hanger 13 doesn't shy away from depicting some of the era's most deplorable racial crimes.

Hangar 13 have recreated everything from that time period perfectly, including the racial tension that everyone faced back then.

This tension was brought to light recently by the Yams collective, which withdrew from the Biennial in protest of the inclusion of work by Joe Scanlan, a Princeton professor who submitted work fictitiously created by a black female artist named Donelle Woolford — a hornet's nest of racial and gender - based provocation.

With billboard - size aerial photographs of Hackney and Tottenham, the locations of the London riots — some gleaned from contemporary news reports, others taken from inside a specially chartered helicopter — the Canadian artist reconstructs recent events, raising questions about public versus private memories, as well as racial and class tensions.

For the New Museum's 2015 Triennial, he had guides lead visitors away from the museum to nearby locations that resonate as sites of racial tension.

In this sense, the racially tinged titles of Bradford's paintings — including Them Big Old Titties — seem more propositional than polemical in their oblique allusions to the complex mesh of ethnic, racial and gender desires and tensions that course through the neighborhoods and communities from which Bradford sourced his scavenged materials.