Sentences with phrase «into black communities»

A Change.org petition is urging the creators of the highly - anticipated film Black Panther to invest a quarter of its proceeds into Black communities.

And two: The money that does make it into black communities, she argues, doesn't stay there long enough because people just aren't spending it where they live.

Prior to the release of Marvel's «Black Panther», a petition was started that requested 25 % of proceeds from the hit film be donated back into the black community.

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It followed a report last month by the Seattle Times newspaper and online BuzzFeed News accusing the largest U.S. mobile home builder of exploiting black, Latino and Native American borrowers by driving them into subprime loans they can not afford, and harming communities by repossessing homes after borrowers default.

His best - known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead shrink and fade away over time.

Business, government and community leaders come together at this black - tie gala to officially induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Immediate Past Chair into the Council of Governors.

Many of the merchants participating in Bitcoin Black Friday are early adopters that have put a lot into the Bitcoin community.

Each spring, this black - tie gala brings together business, government, and community leaders to induct the Board of Trade's immediate past chair into its prestigious Council of Governors.

The black - tie gala evening brings together business, government, and community leaders to induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's immediate past chair into its Council of Governors and to honour the 2017 recipients of the Rix Awards for Community and Corporate Citcommunity leaders to induct the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's immediate past chair into its Council of Governors and to honour the 2017 recipients of the Rix Awards for Community and Corporate CitCommunity and Corporate Citizenship.

But selling these positions within the black community is made infinitely more difficult when my black critics are able to say, «But your argument plays into the hands of those who are looking for an excuse to abandon the black poor,» and I find myself unable credibly to contradict them.

It is pathetic how many of our black community disregard the facts and buy into the who; e racism theme.

So you can say «black lives matter» and still go into a space where the «other» in your community is a person of native descent, of Mexican descent.

If the GOP refuses to budge on immigration reform they will risk turning the latinos into as reliably Democratic voters as the black community tends to be, and that will effectively kill the GOP in the long run.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

The full picture leads Coates to claim, «I point this out to show that the idea that the idea that, somehow, the black community has fallen into a morass of cultural pathology is convenient nostalgia.»

Having long considered the church «mainly a reactionary power,» she finds the black church transformed into a community keeping alive the spirit of martyrs such as Martin Luther King, Jr..

Twenty - three years after Levine presented this challenge to the American Jewish establishment, he has coauthored a book on the transformation during the late 1960s and early 1970s of the once vibrant Boston Jewish community of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan into a black slum.

This translates into an admonition to black women to avoid the self - destruction of hearing a disproportionately large burden in the work of community building and maintenance.

Wolverhampton's promotion back into the Premier League could see the club receive a massive financial boost, that could reap benefits for the Black Country community.

It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

The black communities will be horrified when Blair's economic policies not only slam into the poorest people in Britain but also create a base for a new rise of racism and fascist groups like the BNP.

In addition, the black community will want to see what action follows the Lawrence inquiry into the police response to racist murders.

To his credit, Grossman points out what many in the black community are saying privately about an iconic black community possibly passing politically into the hands of an Hispanic representative.

Cuomo spent a long time working his way back into the good graces of black voters after he quit the just one week before the primary, and his camp is very sensitive about his relationship with the black community.

One of the oldest black institutions in Brooklyn, the church has played host to Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman; Congressman Hakeem Jeffries had just given a rousing speech, putting the current political moment into context by recalling how this community had survived slavery and Jim Crow (not to mention Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush).

Stay tuned to Black Westchester for more on this developing story as we will look further into cuts in the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center and other services in Mount Vernon and other communities of color.

Democrats, along with several civil rights groups, attacked the now - adopted district lines as unfairly stacking the deck against Democrats in downstate communities and said they split apart a predominately black and Latino area on Long Island to dilute its mostly Democratic voters into several Republican districts.

That comes into play for Mark in South Buffalo and Byron in the black community.

In the west the constituency stretches into inner - city leads and the Harehills area with its densely packed terraced housing and asian and black communities.

Sources in both the Espaillat and Wright camps insist that they have, respectively, taken into account the blocs of the Dominican and black communities that already dislike them — and maintain that the other candidates will not dig too deep into their numbers at the ballot box.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

Founded in 2002, BlackPeopleMeet has grown into the largest online black singles community in the US.

About 5 % of the African Americans within the Continental United States have some Native American blood, with the exception of the Seminole Indians, who accepted hundreds of black settlers into their communities and absorbed them into their tribe.

Black Girl In Suburbia is a 55 minute feature documentary that looks into the experiences of black girls growing up in predominately White communiBlack Girl In Suburbia is a 55 minute feature documentary that looks into the experiences of black girls growing up in predominately White communiblack girls growing up in predominately White communities.

Peele's «Get Out» is a remarkedly assured black comedy (pun intended) that relies on exploitation tropes (startle effects, etc.) to comment on what the Black Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communiblack comedy (pun intended) that relies on exploitation tropes (startle effects, etc.) to comment on what the Black Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communiBlack Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communities.

The film has also jumped into the current of black political thought and action, prompting challenging think pieces about how T'Challa and Killmonger's rift is representative of familiar ideological debates in the black community, and what the film's politics represent about the state of black America.

Black has a tendency to go big and over-the-top, but he's gloriously restrained here playing a man who has learned to survive as a closeted gay man in a conservative Texas town by molding himself into whatever shape the community finds most appealing, whether that's choir leader, empathetic pal, musical - theater leading man, or pillar of the community.

The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».

But Barry begs to differ; its drama springs from the character's identity crisis — his difficulty in assimilating into either Ivy League academia, where white peers insist he «get over» slavery and campus cops harass him, or New York's black community.

He also flips pearl - clutching, white - flight anxiety about predatory black men on its ear, turning a gated community into the real danger zone.

In a peculiar casting choice, Lee has the actor playing a community priest spouting facts to his congregation about per - capita income disparity, the prison industrial complex («mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow,» he spits into a microphone) and a brief overview of black history and oppression.

«We delve into cultural competencies and discover the impact that culturally responsive teaching can bring to a community,» explains Carla Smith, the teacher academy coordinator for Renton High School in Renton, Washington, a 10 - year - old RWT site where over two - thirds of the student population is black, Asian, or Latino.

EDUTOPIA: In terms of creating more mirrors, you've been working to get many more black educators into the profession in the Philadelphia community via the fellowship Black Male Educators for Social Jusblack educators into the profession in the Philadelphia community via the fellowship Black Male Educators for Social JusBlack Male Educators for Social Justice.

Jim Buford, president of the St. Louis Urban League and founder of the Black Leadership Roundtable, explained, «public schools are engrained into the fabric of the community.»

Gallery eight features articles on some of «freedom's people», those who built the black community into a thriving part of New York City's daily life.

Roses is part of a growing movement of progressive and community - based charter schools that emphasize a broader liberal arts curriculum, bringing a full slate of art, music and extra-curricular activities into schools for poor black and brown children.

This film examines Oakland's evolution through the eyes of social entrepreneurs determined that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as Silicon Valley spreads into the home of the second largest black community in California.

She believes the move is one to make «poor people of color — and when I say color, I do mean black — that still reside in this community... so uncomfortable, to just throw you into utter chaos, that you have no choice but to flee.»

AACTE has selected 10 institutions to participate in the Association's first Networked Improvement Community (NIC), aimed at increasing the diversity of our nation's teacher candidate pool by focusing on recruitment of more Black and Hispanic men into teacher preparation programs.

The Chicago Teachers Union is proud to stand today with Chicago's Black and Brown communities in our ongoing struggle to bring into being Dr. King's vision for a more just and equitable nation.