Sentences with phrase «immigrant women about»

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We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

She suggests immigrant women instead need better education about balancing family life with employment opportunities.

WASHINGTON - Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention due to its unease over Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities, Politico reported.

How about we also stop crucifying gays, women, those facing economic hardship, immigrants, etc..

2) Here's a brave documentary by one Sophie Peeters about the constant sexual attention and harassment endured by the young women of Brussels, Belgium, and 9 times out of 10 at the instigation of immigrant men, it appears most of them Muslim (or «Muslim - raised,» if you prefer).

He raised concerns about the GOP candidate's remarks on women, immigrants, and minorities, and went on to say that «there is too much at stake before us» to abstain from voting altogether.

I (Ed) don't regret speaking up for immigrants, against heinous comments about women, and many more.

In addition to talking about the natural parenting strategies that I use, I blog from the perspective of being an immigrant and a woman of color.

They complain about immigrants, or the French, or women, or the middle - classes, but they get on terribly well with the Polish family next door and chat about the weather with the Arab man who sells them their vegetables.

«Until we achieve unity and stand up for women, immigrants, and the most vulnerable New Yorkers, all talk about a majority is nothing more than meaningless rhetoric on the part of failed leadership,» Giove said.

Bringing up his three college - age daughters who he said are frightened about the new direction of the country, Cuomo ripped what he called the new «extreme right wing agenda that will trample on our rights» and has placed women, immigrants and members of the LGBT community under attack.

«Until we achieve unity and stand up for women, immigrants, and the most vulnerable New Yorkers, all talk about a majority is nothing more than meaningless rhetoric on the part of failed leadership.»

A story about rise - to - prominence of an ambitious young woman, who happens to be an immigrant.

One frontrunner could be «Silent Nights,» a drama about a Danish woman and her Ghanaian immigrant boyfriend, from director Aske Bang and producer Kim Magnusson.

Your film is about a woman's quest for justice after her son and immigrant husband are killed in a neo-Nazi bomb attack.

But scratch that familiar surface and the evening was one that quietly made history, not only giving us the first Best Picture winner featuring a woman's love affair with a fish, but also a Best Picture from a Mexican immigrant about a black woman, gay man and a disabled woman all teaming up to fight the real monster: white male tyranny.

«Brooklyn» Much has been said about how relevant the film's immigrant storyline is to modern day political controversies, but at its core the picture beautifully portrays the journey of a young woman into adulthood.

is a tense and moving drama about women's rights, immigrant identity, and familial duties.

The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B - movie vampire and a mess of personal issues about women, The Room is nearly an anti-film — an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex.

Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, in a phenomenal portrayal of gradual but unstoppable transformation), an Irish immigrant who comes to New York City to seek a job and a more fulfilling life, changes from a shy, unassertive woman who is torn between two worlds into one who is confident, able and willing to speak her mind, and more certain about what she wants from life.

At a community action group comprised of Mexican immigrants, one woman explains of the terrible ordeal she and her daughters went through to get across the border, and her utter determination to make this new life for herself and her family speaks volumes about the significance of multi-cultural communities and building homes away from home.

The National Sister Schools Organization, together with the San Diego and La Jolla California Rotary Club, support a school in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, a project inspired by an Iranian immigrant woman who was concerned about American's failure to understand Muslims.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

Does Tanya represent something larger about young immigrant women?

Broadly interviews artist - friends Precious Okoyomon and Phoebe Collings - James about their experiences as immigrant black women and how their identities inform their respective works.

Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).

«To bloom into full glory at 94 — whatever Carmen Herrera's slow rise might say about the difficulties of being a woman artist, an immigrant artist or an artist ahead of her time, it is clearly a story of personal strength,» Mr. Zugazagoitia said.

The two women and their families illustrate the complexity of the nation's most diverse metropolitan region, with Harris County home to about 1.1 million foreign - born immigrants, and the challenges that...

It is chilling to consider what the consequences would have been if Rent had been written by my real estate partners, if An American in Paris focused on the landed immigrant issues or if My Fair Lady were about talented women on the bench.

I encourage members of the public, legal actors and service providers to join me in learning more about how to best support immigrant women and other vulnerable spouses.

What women who are newcomers and immigrants need to know about Nova Scotia domestic violence laws and resources

And, like Rosie the Riveter, they are changing perceptions about the power of women in immigrant cultures to affect change.

The prevalence and physical and psychological effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, emotional, financial and / or sexual abuse perpetrated against the victim by an intimate partner are well documented among women in the general population.1 — 7 Little is known, however, about the extent and consequences of IPV among immigrant women.

They were about solidarity — as women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, people of all religions and people of all incomes.