Sentences with phrase «from white communities»

The only place where sundown towns are scarce is in the traditional south, where the labor of black slaves and later sharecroppers was too valuable and commonplace to expel from white communities.

No one ever step forth from the white community who was a beacon of integration.

Most African - American families readily accept marriages between their kin and someone from the white community.

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King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

«Russia must know that further escalation will only isolate it further from the international community,» Obama said, speaking from the South Lawn of the White House.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

«The bill provides much - needed relief from the Dodd - Frank Act for thousands of community banks and credit unions, and will spur lending and economic growth without creating risks to the financial system,» the White House said in a statement after the vote.

Lester Holt reports on Officer Bobby White of the Gainesville Police Department, who used his fame from a 2016 viral video to help police around the country better connect with the communities they serve.

GFI is «committed to radical transparency,» 43 taking steps such as detailing their research and progress on their blog, sharing white papers, and distributing monthly reports from each department to interested community members.

Return of the Mooch: Despite his controversial public comments and subsequent dismissal from Trump's White House, former communications director Anthony Scaramucci is garnering enthusiastic support from the Orthodox Jewish community.

Since non-black ladies already know the domestic violence and crime statistics, the community of colour had little to worry about black men running off wit dem uppity white women... but now that da black man is startin to get a taste for the DARK OAK... the community is getting hit hard... the ONLY way to presevere and keep the dark ladies from dyin» virgins is to condemn to hel l any black man who dares to dream (realistically of course) of coming home to anything but Thunder Thighs.

The artwork echoes a community based photo project from the book's release — you can grab a white marker and fill in the blank however you like!

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Derek White from the Latymer Christian Church told Premier: «Our community hall is full of people who have brought clothes for people who have been made homeless.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

The most virulent opposition came from the predominantly white district of East Meadow, and it looked eerily similar to the resistance of white communities in the South to integration a generation earlier.

The tornado dropping out of the sky, the immersion of a person in water, words spoken by a person in a white alb on Sunday - these have no meaning apart from the value given to them by the community and its individual members.

So instead of the Great White Hope from the North showing up with a toolkit, they seek to partner with and support the church that is already there, doing the work of the Gospel for their own communities.

We both hail from white, working class communities.

In 2008 they gave up their farm and were forced to disband the community due to continued violence and political pressure from local White Supremacists.

It is true that after the founding of the black church community, blacks were barred from white congregations.

I grew up in a very predominately white religious community in the mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to high school with / knew growing up through religious happenings on facebook.

Among the decorations: a bouquet of white lilies from Bengals owner Mike Brown, representative of Bednarik's impact in the NFL community.

The IPGL is being formed, says White, because: 1) many pro golfers would welcome a permanent base with guaranteed income, a retirement plan, limited travel and opportunities for «star status» in an adopted community (e.g., Ron Santo is from Seattle, but Chicago is where his name sells pizza); 2) most golf fans never see live golf competition except on television, and even on TV they are increasingly unable to identify with the players because of the abundance of faceless — meaning what's the name of the guy who won this week?

NOTE: From this day forward, I insist that across the various KOPTALK ® communities and platforms, that on transfer deadline day, as well as bantering about things like the Babel Copter and Jim White, we will now ask «Has Martin turned up yet?».

This book was a refreshing reprieve from the «white man savior» calls to action that are all too frequent and instead features a community working for the betterment of their own community.

Testimony from many transracially adopted adults who grew up in white families illustrates the «in - between» status many adoptees feel, not belonging to or feeling comfortable in communities of color or among white society.

Adoption Guide 2011 -(Page 88) BEST RESOURCES FOR ADOPTION FROM AFRICA Must - read articles and personal stories: • «My Ethiopian Daughters,» by Rita Radostitz www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1663 • «Transracial Adoption: A History of Black and White,» by Phil Bertelsen, www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=290 • «A Hard Lesson,» by Sharon Van Epps www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=2158 • «Braiding Barbara's Hair,» by Erika Solberg www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1660 • «Raising a Child of Another Race,» by Jana Wolff www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=155 Books: • There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children, by Melissa Fay Greene • Love in the Driest Season, by Neely Tucker • You Can Adopt: An Adoptive Families Guide, by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley Websites and e-mail listservs: • AdoptiveFamiliesCircle adoption community, adoptivefamiliescircle.com • Rwanda Embassy, www.rwandaembassy.org • Lesotho Embassy, www.lesothoemb-usa.gov.ls • Embassy of Ethiopia, www.ethiopianembassy.org • Ethiopian Adoption Blogs, www.ethiopianadoptionblogs.

Is it because we'll see less Bonzai charges from the Japanese community or maybe we will see less white males storming our schools with bayonet charges similar to Bull Run and Little Round Top?

The report was produced by Bloomberg's Justin Fox, a famed American financial journalist from the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2016, to counter White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's comments that most undocumented immigrants are not easily able to assimilate into the United States, into its «modern society.»

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

«We are seeing that Medicaid is expanding with more usage than was previously thought in the white community in Erie County, and also that many recipients are working to pay the bills and put food on the table but still need help from the Medicaid system to provide for their families» healthcare needs.

About half the crowd invited to live - cover the speech from the White House was in the nonprofit community (Danielle and I were there representing NWLC), while the other half consisted of random followers of the White House Twitter feed who'd signed up to come.

Additionally, a water transmission project will be done to distribute water from rivers Oti, the Black and White Volta to communities for productive cultivation,» he said.

«The right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of democracy and in these uncertain times, we are facing unprecedented attacks on our immigrant community from the White House,» he added.

He said a water transmission project to distribute water from River Oti, the Black and White Volta to communities for productive cultivation will also begin in 2018.

Cohn is well - liked and has a long track record of community involvement — and is best known for his annual fall breakfast at Junior's that draws top elected officials from every strata of the political world with the possible exception of the White House.

As an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban community.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abFrom Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abfrom White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

When the White House approved federal disaster funding for New York state communities along the Lake Ontario shoreline yesterday, two counties were conspicuously missing from the declaration.

He has such fond memories of Mount Vernon, yet he chose to run away from the city, and currently resides in Rye, a «wealthy, mostly white» community which refuses to accept any form of «affordable housing» and is one of such communities in Westchester County which dumps all of «the problems» into Mount Vernon.

While this questionnaire focuses on the communities of Hoosick Falls, NY, Petersburgh, NY, and North Bennington, VT, we would welcome responses from former workers in the plants, regardless of where they live, as well as responses from residents with PFOA contaminated private wells in the surrounding communities (including Eagle Bridge and White Creek in New York, and Bennington, Pownal, and Shaftsbury in Vermont).

In retrospect, the Queens GOP historically held down parts of the northeast from the days of Frank Padavan — the blue and white collar mixed community of co-ops, one and two family homes, always had a viable GOP presence which gives some red candidates a fighting chance.

In the 2016 New York presidential primary, Hillary Clinton won the greatest portion of New York City's Democratic vote share by a better margin than pundits expected, substantially increasing her votes in predominantly black communities from 2008 and also receiving solid support from a number of traditionally white, liberal areas.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

From 2008 to 2015, per - student funding from the state dropped 17 percent at CUNY senior colleges and 5 percent at community colleges when adjusted for inflation, according to the white paFrom 2008 to 2015, per - student funding from the state dropped 17 percent at CUNY senior colleges and 5 percent at community colleges when adjusted for inflation, according to the white pafrom the state dropped 17 percent at CUNY senior colleges and 5 percent at community colleges when adjusted for inflation, according to the white paper.

On Primary Day several voters said they did not vote for White, who had held the Council seat from 1994 - 2002, because he had done very little for the community during the recent economic turbulence.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today announced that the county's «Celebrate Aging Village Fair» is set for Wednesday, September 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Community Center, 125 Lozza Drive, Valhalla.