Sentences with phrase «of black minorities»

Assured in vocal tone and gaze, Pindell confronts her (white) audience, pressing them into a space of discomfort that leaves little room for anyone to overlook their complicity in the ways in which society manages the behaviors of black minorities.

His faith in the total integration of Black minorities in the American society was so strong that he always opposed the idea of people going back to Africa.

Not exact matches

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The company has done the same sort of analysis for members of historically under - represented minorities: blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans.

Black & Denim was a winner of the MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition Series, Macy's gave them a week in its minority business development program called The Workshop at Macy's, and they recently raised more than $ 35,000 in their Kickstarter campaign.

This is especially true of minority households — nearly a third of black households and more than a quarter of all Latinx households have zero or negative wealth, compared to 14 % of white families.

There is a point where good marketing turns into an episode of Black Mirrors or the dystopian world of «Minority Report.»

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMablack community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMaBlack Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

In addition to gender, black women see obstacles to racial equality: three - quarters of black women workers say there are still significant hurdles holding back minorities.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Previously, she founded Sundry Style, an e-commerce marketplace that features a range of products by emerging black fashion designers and artisans, and co-founded Paradigm, a consulting firm that has helped dozens of top tech companies recruit and retain women and minorities.

NMSDC PRESENTS LEADER OF THE YEAR AWARD TO FORD EXECUTIVE Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2014 — The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC ®) named Carla Preston of Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, FloridOF THE YEAR AWARD TO FORD EXECUTIVE Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2014 — The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC ®) named Carla Preston of Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Floridof Ford Motor Company its Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Floridof the Year at a black - tie awards banquet on Wednesday, November 5, to cap its four - day Conference and Business Opportunity Fair in Orlando, Florida.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

More than 1,200 guests attended the black - tie event, including CEOs and executives of Fortune 500 corporations and minority business owners from across the country.

The National Minority Supplier Development Council presented Chrysler Group LLC with its most prestigious award at a black - tie Awards Banquet at the conclusion of its annual Conference in Orlando.

NMSDC, a unique and specialized player in the field of minority business enterprise, is proud of its unwavering commitment to advance Asian, Black, Hispanic and Native American suppliers in a globalized corporate supply chain.

At a black - tie Gala wrapping up its annual Conference and Business Opportunity Exchange, held this year in Detroit, October 23 - 25, the National Minority Supplier Development Council gave out honors to member corporations and minority business enterprises (MBEs) for their contributions to NMSDC's goals in advancing business opportunities for minority - owned companies of alMinority Supplier Development Council gave out honors to member corporations and minority business enterprises (MBEs) for their contributions to NMSDC's goals in advancing business opportunities for minority - owned companies of alminority business enterprises (MBEs) for their contributions to NMSDC's goals in advancing business opportunities for minority - owned companies of alminority - owned companies of all sizes.

Also, in Slack's U.S. workforce, percentages of underrepresented minorities (including black or African - American, Hispanic or Latino, or American Indian or Alaskan employees), are, in some cases, triple that of peer companies.

Racism in the UK is less dramatic, but perhaps no less present, and is revealed in the numbers of people from black and ethnic minority groups in certain jobs and professions.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

It is also reasonable to ask those blacks who have benefited from special minority programs — such as the set - asides for black businesses — to contribute to the alleviation of the suffering of poor blacks, for without the visible ghetto poor, such programs would lack the political support needed for their continuation.

In addition to the ageing clergy, the Church found the percentage of black and ethnic minority ministers had risen from 3 % to 3.4 % in four years.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

Black history and the histories of other minorities might be cordoned off.

A quarter of both evangelicals and black Protestants said they wouldn't mind if their church adjusted its traditional beliefs and practices, and a minority (8 % of evangelicals, 13 % of black Protestants) wanted their church to adopt modern beliefs and practices.

More white evangelicals (27 %) than black Protestants (18 %) think of themselves in 2016 as a member of a minority because of their religious beliefs.

As far as Mr. Graham, where the hell was he during the fight for civil rights of blacks and minorities?

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Why is it that the experience of Black Americans and other oppressed ethnic minority groups create a context for renewed observation for testing process metaphysics?

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

The beginning point for this is for Black Americans and other oppressed minority groups to set their own agenda of liberation.

This avoidance is important to Black Americans and to other oppressed ethnic minority social groups, because the background of social pluralism in America has been the prevailing notion that «the melting pot» and «Anglo - Saxon conformity» constitute the two accepted models of assimilation and acculturation.

The experiences of Black Americans and other oppressed ethnic minority groups can provide renewed observation for testing the Whiteheadian framework.

That comparison proved prophetic, as Hendershott exposes the racial politics of abortion and the influence eugenics plays in abortion ideology» reinforced by the startling facts that black babies are aborted three times as often as white babies, and 78 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods.

With more than 79 % of clinics in minority neighborhoods, and more than 1400 black abortions daily, these programs are doing precisely what our actor asked them to do.

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

As Mr. Scannell and some other blacks (albeit still a minority) recognize, one real victim of this way of thinking is the legacy of the civil rights movement and the legitimate concerns of black, especially poor black, Americans.

In 1947 a group of American blacks led by W. E. B. Du Bois, under the auspices of the NAACP, had appealed to the UN to redress «the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America.»

It is a shame, however, that the same churches that brought black Americans together to stand up for their Civil Rights often have a hard time coming to terms with the oppression of other minorities.

Just as men have been criticized for excluding women's experience from theology, feminists justifiably have been called to account for failing to recognize that white women's experiences are not the same as that of blacks and other minorities.

More churches should be led by female priests and those «who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups», the new Bishop of London has said.

Barack Obama took 96 % of the black vote in 2008, and strong turnout among African - Americans and other minorities will be crucial if he hopes to win a second term, analysts say.

Dame Caroline replied: «We should not overlook the need to draw more people from different ethnic backgrounds and the church has strategies looking to increase the number of black and ethnic minority ordinants, the numbers are currently only 3.3 per cent of clergy.»

The Church of England appointed a senior figure to drive up the proportion of black and ethnic minority clergy in 2016, against a backdrop of data showing the church was failing to match national demographics.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has urged the Church of England to «get on» with plans to increase the number of black and ethnic minority clergy members.