Sentences with phrase «inner city action»

Now, they're hoping to translate their brand of comedy to the big screen in this take on black inner city action movies — like «New Jack City,» but with two nerds and a cute kitten at its center.

Not exact matches

«We realised that churches in inner - city and deprived areas were missing in action.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

Hudson says the council action is meant to bolster state legislators as they try to move ahead in expanding high - speed Internet in inner cities and rural areas across the state.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

These events aren't referred to directly but impoverished, inner - city Oakland provides a very stark contrast to the beauty of the mythical African nation of Wakanda, where most of the action takes place.

It rarely leaves the inner - city community center in which most of the action takes place or the side of the 11 - year - old girl whose story it tells.

Sweet, seasonal and gorgeous, director Kasi Lemmons» latest fills a void in African American cinema between inner - city action and broad situation comedy

Director Saul Dibb, who made his debut with the inner - city gang drama Bullet Boy (2004), deploys a more contemporary sensibility only fleetingly, and usually in scenes of action and violence.

Now on the 50th Anniversary of «The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» and in new research for Education Next, Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson with Harvard colleagues James Quane and Jackelyn Hwang, find poor black children today are increasingly likely to grow up in family units in the inner city whose dire circumstances affect every aspect of their lives.

He says Indianapolis Public Schools administrators understand the challenges of educating inner - city students, but officials» good intentions are often lost in ineffective action plans.

For more than 30 years, members of Nottingham High School Community Action group have provided staffing and support for an annual residential weekend, taking primary school children from inner - city Nottingham out to rural Derbyshire.

«When you compare kids who do and don't have parents who care enough to take action, especially in the inner city» it makes a difference, Bauer said.

«Working on Watch Dogs was enormously interesting to me because its world offers the convergence of cyberpunk and the edgy tech reality of our times; it all plays out with action and energy against the inner city backdrop that I thrive in» said John Shirley.

They discuss immigration and the economic choices facing black communities, particularly in the inner city, and lend themselves to ethical debates (questions of what characters believe and how that influences their actions) and issues surrounding racism's depiction in policy and media.

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Jeroen Jongeleen's sticker and graffiti actions counter the standardized and commercialized inner - city spaces with subtle interventions.

Alternately, if you must integrate your own inner tribesperson while taking action as a change agent, please help bring some trees to your own city's urban forest.