Sentences with phrase «many race riots»

Johnson was heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915, a reign that included his knockout in 1910 of the so - called Great White Hope, former champion James J. Jeffries, which prompted race riots in dozens of U.S. cities.

Yet Najib will struggle to live up to the ideal of racial harmony and the legacy of his father, who brought Malaysians together after race riots in 1969 nearly tore the nation apart.

Race riots continued in places like Watts, Calif., and Malcolm X was assassinated.

It was in 1969, the era of George Wallace and the Black Panther Party and campus race riots and the Richard Nixon «Southern Strategy.»

The Black Wall Street Race Riot in Tulsa Oklahoma in the late 1920's.

While we were deliberating on how to head off a bloody race riot a group of youngsters burst in on us and announced: «The State Police are shooting our people.»

Politics, sports, race riots, crime and labor disputes all belong to this level of conflict.

Earlier this year, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were killed.

He revealed that after the race riots in Charlottesville, he convened with a group of pastors to discuss what can be done to foster greater unity in the Church.

Cone first gained attention in 1969 with the release of «Black Theology and Black Power,» a book he wrote after urban race riots and King's assassination.

We have also had other evils — among them, the long, disgraceful history of segregation and Jim Crow, of lynch mob and race riot.

Lord Scarman had warned that the race riots of 1981 showed that «urgent action» needed to be taken to stop racial discrimination becoming an «ineradicable disease».

Do you propose that the bigotry especially prevalent in the south is the reason you've had race riots in big cities all over the country like L.A. and Detroit and Miami which is not traditional «deep» south.

People have to look at from where a nation is coming from and moving towards rather than judge where they are at present — if you took a snapshot of countries like the USA around 1865 - 1880 or during the race riots or peace marches of the 60's you'd come away with a view of America as being an oppressive country (at least in the south)-- there is not a single thing happening in China that hasn't happened in the US or Britain as well your just looking at a single timeline while making a judgment.

It is a fictionalized account of the historic Tulsa Race Riot in 1921.

I look back on my time in high school during the enforced busing and race riots of the early 70's and not one student stabbed another with a butter knife in my district.

The county executive predicted more attacks on law enforcement and even «race riots» with New York City officials can't get a handle on the situation.

In the 10 months since, the Prime Minister has repeatedly been forced to distance herself from Trump - the man who was supposed to be her best buddy on the global stage - be it over his withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, his criticism of Sadiq Khan after the London terror attacks or his response to the Charlottesville race riot.

The race riots in Burnley in 2001 were partly caused by resentment over unequal council spending, a new report finds.

Some will complain that we should not have to wait until race riots take place to challenge this type of piece.

There was also a high vote for British National Party leader Nick Griffin in Oldham, in the wake of recent race riots in the town.

The message from UKIP is that Corbyn Labour is unpatriotic, an enemy of the armed services and supportive of «uncontrolled mass immigration» — this in a town with a large Muslim population where bitter race riots took place in 2001.

There are repeated references to the many race riots and protests that took place across Britain in the eighties - with a sense of impending momentum as we approach «the march».

A decade after the Oldham race riots, Oldham's Muslim community continues to feel frustrated and victimised.

Professor Ted Cantle OBE, best known for authoring the eponymous report into the 2001 race riots, said, «We live in a multi-faith and multi-ethnic community, but if we want a shared society our schools have to become shared too.

However, almost half of those asked, said they expected there to be race riots «in the near future» if current levels of immigration are maintained.

[32] Critics accused him, among other things, of «inflaming racial tensions» in an area that has already known race riots.

A Caribbean family living in London during the tension and violence that led to the 1958 race riots, comes to a brutal realisation that life in post war Britain is far from ideal.

The race riots in 1967 Detroit caused looting, burning and desperate circumstances for all involved.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Long takes of the wild ones throwing switchblades at one another, of Dafoe smoking a cigarette, and of a sex scene comprised almost entirely of televised scenes of a race riot betray the influence of the French New Wave.

But her reasons for taking on the biographical drama of the 1967 Detroit race riots were always clear, allowing her to persist while wading through emotionally difficult terrain.

Recalling harrowing incidents of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Detroit, the film is a stomach - turner, to be sure.

THE TAP (originally set up at USA in 2014) Not going forward STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions TEAM: Andrew Lenchewski (w, ep), Aaron Tracy (w, co-ep), Rob Reiner (ep), Alan Greisman (ep), Charlie Ebersol (ep), Simon Cellan Jones (d) LOGLINE: Set at Yale University circa 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution — a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and the arrival of its first female students.

Kathryn Bigelow's incendiary recreation of the 1967 Detroit race riots.

Opening with an incendiary recreation of the Detroit race riots that took place in July 1967, this third collaboration between screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow, after The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, ensures viewers are lacerated by every shattered window, burnt by every Molotov cocktail.

, Charles and Diana, the Falklands war, Rubik's Cubes, aerobics videos, Yuppies and race riots - and these images are brilliantly edited to the sound of Toots and the Maytals»

«I'm not sure rave reviews or buzzing awards talk are enough to express the amplitude of what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal achieve in «Detroit,» a film about race riots from half a century ago.

Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.

Stripped of its ambiguities, the plot plays like boomer magnetic poetry: a little race riots here, an anti-war bombing there, a dash of sexual liberation and voilà!

uuu On the eve of the 21st century, a former cop hustles an illegal entertainment device that pumps sensory impressions into the brain, and could provide clues to a murder that's threatening a massive race riot.

The long hot summer of 1967 would culminate in 159 race riots across the United States, with Detroit, Michigan home to one of the most brutal and notorious conflicts.

Kathryn Bigelow restages the city's 1967 race riots with authenticity and urgency, while Shubhashish Bhutiani touches on death, modernity and Hindu philosophy

In limited release the doc sequel An Inconvenient Truth (reviewed), Kathryn Bigelow's race riot drama Detroit, the Hasidic drama Menashe (reviewed), and Brigsby Bear all barely dipped their toe into theaters but audiences expressed interest in all four.

The question of colour is everywhere in Southside With You — the African exhibition Obama takes Michelle to before the gathering, in a rundown part of town where the black community can't get a local centre built; the movie date, where they see Spike Lee's just - released Do The Right Thing, which prophetically highlights the race riots that would resurface during Obama's presidency.

Set on the affluent, predominantly caucasian and altogether fictional ivy league campus of WInchester University, Dear White People takes a look at the weeks leading up to a Halloween party that sparked a «race riot» of sorts and thrust Winchester's race relations into the national news cycle.

Box Office: From director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the Oscar - winning team behind «The Hurt Locker» and «Zero Dark Thirty,» this intense recreation of the 1967 race riot in Detroit is a tough sit and demanded special handling from neophyte distributor Annapurna, which harbored high hopes for their first release.

In 1972, when the United States was experiencing race riots, war protests, and campus violence, Harvard political scientist Edward C. Banfield penned an essay, «How Many, and Who, Should Be Set at Liberty?»

* In Smokey Night, by Eve Bunting, the many messages and transformations center on the 1993 race riots in Los Angeles.

Race Riots / Urban Riots in the United States Essential Question: To what degree is change dependent on Conflict?