Sentences with phrase «historical rights figure»

The film chooses truth over trying to make her some kind of historical rights figure, she was as corrupt as anyone else.

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It is an observable, contingent, historical fact that our minds are of just the right kind to be able to figure out a great deal about the universe, while keeping the figuring - out process challenging.

Neither the label «fiction» nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...» The Rev. Donald Wildmon charged: «The script... is the most perverted, distorted account of the historical and biblical Jesus I have ever read.»

He nabbed two more Oscar nominations playing persecuted historical figures: civil - rights leader Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic (1992) and wrongfully imprisoned prizefighter Rubin «Hurricane» Carter in Norman Jewison's The Hurricane (1999).

The film's running time is a swift two hours; I wouldn't have minded an extra 30 minutes to learn more about the rest of the civil rights pioneers (all real historical figures) who march arm - in - arm on the front lines with King, including Wendell Pierce's Reverend Hosea Williams and Tessa Thompson's Diane Nash.

It's a pleasure, then, to see Ali and Henson pick up right where they left off in Hidden Figures, a rousing historical crowdpleaser in which Henson plays genius mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the long - unrecognised black female pioneers who aided NASA in the Space Race during the 1960s.

A new look at a famous historical figure, that's right in the wheelhouse of many voters.

This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to test their knowledge with the major historical figures and events during the Civil Rights Movement.

While the news indicates that Amazon Publishing may be floundering a little in the US, its UK publishing division just bid on and won a multiple - rights five - figure deal for a self - published author's new historical thriller title, The Thief Taker by Cath Quinn.

With a central angelic figure sheltering, at left, personifications of Youth, Philosophy, Religion, and Art from a sword - wielding cavalryman at right, the mural's historical reference is to the menaces of materialism and war.

Born in Birmingham, Ala., but raised in L.A. during the civil rights and black power movements, Marshall paints historical events, the city (including bits of Los Angeles), domestic scenes and portraits in ways that counter the invisibility of the black figure in Western art.

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.

Yet they are both significant figures in their own right, and these highly biographical treatments afford their work a rich historical context that illuminates how their artistic practices intersected with the realities of their epoch.

His spray - painted text «drawings» are thin, his installations sometimes uneven, and his Civil Rights All Stars and Uncle Tom All Stars series (jerseys for Black historical figures like Angela Davis or Clarence Thomas) are just plain funny.

The sculpture will become the first to celebrate a woman historical figure in Parliament Square, London, and will be installed next year to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which gave women the right to vote.

Some people looked at parts of that work (for example, the lower right panel of Figure 1) and point out how the climate model oceans show a smooth and pretty much unbroken increase in heat content over the historical period.

From Genghis Khan to King Edward I of England, these 10 historical figures did a lot to preserve the planet, from lowering global temperatures to promoting animal rights to setting aside land for conservation.