Sentences with phrase «historic black community»

Its construction in 1957 destroyed a historic black community, today it is nearing the end of its life and serves 75,000 cars a day.

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The social stigma of breastfeeding in black communities is still higher - largely due to issues related to historic challenges of breastfeeding and the lack of support black women have received to persist in breastfeeding.

Going back to his hometown for this historic moment was symbolic to Obama because the city is where he worked as a young community organizer and where eight years ago he declared victory to become the country's first black president.

One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

The unchallenged star of the film is 9 - year - old Asean Johnson, who took on Mayor Emanuel on the historic closing of more than 50 public schools in Chicago's mostly black and Hispanic communities.

Tuscaloosa is known as a college town, but standing on the banks of the Black Warrior River, something greater rushes in around you — a community flowing with scenic settings, thrilling venues, legendary academics, and historic streets forever connected to the water's edge.

The powerful and historic presence of black artists and their social and political impact on the city and the African American community was documented in the exhibition «Now Dig This!

As with her other works, these two black - and - white photographic textiles, with their composite stitching - together of figures from disparate yet interlocking communities, illuminate the elusive relationship between historic documentation and truth.

Changing Colors: a workshop on toning black and white photographs; Crow Shadow Institute, Pendleton, OR, April, 1999 What Geologists Call an «Explanation» - Terry Toedtemeier: on his photography, Portland Community Colleges, Rock Creek, Sylvania, and Cascade campuses, Portland, OR Peculiar to Photography, slide lecture for the exhibition, «Seeing Through Photography,» Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, March 5, 1999 About Photographing Basalt, slide lecture at Blue Sky Photography Gallery, Portland, OR February 11, 1999 Hope Photographs: Thought from an Historic Perspective, slide lecture at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, February 17, 1999 Framing the Frontier - 19th Century Photography in the American West, slide presentation at Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA, November, 1998 Photography and Censorship, slide presentation, Portland State University, Portland, OR, March, 1998 Mysteries on a Plate Glass - Early Photography of Egypt, slide presentation, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR