Sentences with phrase «of black representation»

As the crown jewel event of the year, our National Conference serves as a forum for underrepresented students to learn more about the legal profession from prominent lawyers, judges and politicians.Our conference was created as, and continues to be, a response to the troubling level of black representation in the legal profession.

Acutely aware and critical of black representation in mainstream media, Jafa incorporates a wide range of imagery, collaging and interspersing clips of figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, James Brown, Beyoncé, and Freddie Gray, as well as hip - hop performances, sports games with predominantly black athletes, and violent police arrests of black men and women.

Articles about Kerry James Marshall often remind us of his early interest in art sparked by visits to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; these early visits, which led to art classes in summer school and college, also made him aware of the lack of black representation in these museum collections, an omission he set out to rectify through artistic mastery.

CAAM curator Naima J. Keith says, «Fade to Black provides a nuanced history of black representation in motion pictures from the early to mid-20th century.

This ambitious large - scale painting addresses the issues of black representation by interweaving narratives of art history, society, culture and politics.

It confronts an absence in popular comics of black representation.»

The works of Himid, who was born in Zanzibar, and Anderson, whose parents are Jamaican, both addressed the issue of black representation in art and media.

Vintage images of black representation from Ebony and Jet magazines were the source of inspiration for several photographic collage series.

For three decades she concentrated primarily on photography and video, but in recent years began exploring drawing and painting again, inspired by vintage images of black representation in Ebony and Jet magazines.

Exfoliation, a photograph by Lyle Ashton Harris, similarly scours the rich ambiguities of black representation.

It's a moment of black representation that connects back to the title's origins and the soundtracks of Super Fly and Shaft.

If he takes any credit for the fact that Black - ish pushes the very idea of black representation to the forefront of primetime on a weekly basis, he never says so.

Not exact matches

After two years of trying, Facebook's representation of blacks and Hispanics remains at 2 percent and 4 percent, respectively — the exact same representation Facebook held in 2014, when the tech industry began its diversity push.

Representation of white women in leadership roles improved by 17 % over the nine year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages declined across the board, according to research by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.

We think the threat of losing delegate representation should incentivize red - state Democrats — and other Democratic leaders — to prioritize issues that directly affect black communities on the state and federal levels.

Since 2014, the company's overall representation of blacks and Hispanics has remained unchanged.

That's unfortunately the norm at U.S. - based tech companies, but where Uber shines is in its representation of black and Latinx people.

Uber has not only brought on a chief diversity officer but also continues to make progress in terms of representation of black and brown people in leadership roles in the U.S., as well as the overall number of women in its workforce.

Elite institutions seek to maintain an adequate representation of certain ethnic groups, especially blacks.

You can tell black moms that they shouldn't care that most representations of breastfeeding include white women because we are «all women», but that «close our eyes and pretend race doesn't exist» approach hasn't worked.

Oral Questions - Action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport and improve the profile of women's sport in the media - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Addressing the under - representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards - Baroness Howells of St Davids; Ensuring the action plan for ending violence against women and girls is delivered consistently in schools - Baroness Prosser

When David Cameron says he wants to broaden representation in Parliament, that does not just extend to women and black and minority ethnic (BME) members, it goes right across the spectrum of interests and backgrounds.

Bertha Joseph, Brent's first Afro - Caribbean mayor, said she was joining the Conservatives after Labour failed to address crime in her area or increase the representation of black and ethnic minority Londoners in the council.

Rev Jackson said black and ethnic minority communities need to play a greater role in politics, criticising their lack of representation in the UK.

New research by ConservativeHome today shows the extent of the likely historic increase in female and Black and Minority Ethnic representation inside the Conservative parliamentary party after the general election.

And I say that in the sense that there was no physical representation of black women here in the Capitol in the form of a representative.»

She said the state has «made a lot of gains» in the state Assembly with respect to representation of black women and pointed to the significance of Public Advocate Letitia James, the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position.

Other issues included the importance of diversity within black, Asian and minority ethnic minority representation so that all communities felt they had a voice, and concerns about the deselection of councillors.

«That includes African - Americans, that includes women, and unfortunately our Statuary Hall is lacking in both their representation of the work of women and their contributions to our nation as well as black women.»

An important goal of the program is to increase representation of Black / African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic / Latino, and Pacific Islander students within neuroscience.

Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole's surface — its event horizon — suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.

Representation of blacks and Latinos showed marginal improvements across STEM fields but continue to be in the single digits.

In a lecture in 1975 he said «in my entire scientific life... the most shattering experience has been the realisation that an exact solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity, discovered by the New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr, provides the absolutely exact representation of untold numbers of massive black holes that populate the Universe.

«It's a big black eye if scientists are making false and fraudulent representations,» Republican senator Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, told representatives of ACT during a Senate subcommittee hearing.

Surprisingly, recent work demonstrates that visual brain maps are dark - centric and that, just as stars rotate around black holes in the Universe, lights rotate around darks in the brain representation of visual space.

Her work explores representations of black male sexuality and identity, through exceptional craftsmanship and embellishments.

There are thousands of users registered from all over the world, with an equally high representation of black and white singles looking to find dates.

Female entrepreneur; Gender representation on corporate boards of directors; Economic development; Explorers and travelers Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) In Florida's halls of power, Sherry Johnson is somewhat of an anomaly: a black woman who grew up destitute and

But representation of black women is even worse than that of white women, and as many black feminists have pointed out, white feminists can sometimes forget black women in our activism.

But I wanted to be clear that I understand that there is a difference between «We need more and better representation of women onscreen» and «We need more and better representation of black women onscreen.»

The comic enabled dignified, empowered, positive representations of blackness deployed on a global level: Black visual pleasure and desire for escapism through fantasy cinema recognized and served.

The story is not quite as black - hearted as the TV series but the representation of modern politics being the product of back room deals, manipulation and blackmail certainly retains its flavour.

All things considered, Black Panther is both one of the best MCU movies yet and a watershed moment for big - budget tentpoles, when it comes to onscreen racial and cultural representation.

Instead it goes to great pains to illustrate the sliding scales of representation and discrimination, with people like black women of the transgender experience often coming off the worst.

He is a despised character within the film designed to show the audience how loathsome many representations of black identity have been, from The Birth of a Nation onwards.

It was especially upsetting in this insteance because, as shown in World of Wakanda, that form of representation was already there, on Black Panther's pages.

However, there's still a way that future instalments can push female representation even further forward to the point where we might even see a woman don the mantle of Black Panther — thus becoming the first black female superhero to headline her own Marvel mBlack Panther — thus becoming the first black female superhero to headline her own Marvel mblack female superhero to headline her own Marvel movie.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

«Black Panther» star Chadwick Boseman, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» breakout Kelly Marie Tran and «Wonder Woman» herself, Gal Gadot, all will be presenting at the Oscars after headlining three of Hollywood's biggest recent hits, both in terms of box office and representation.