Sentences with phrase «of communities of color by»

To eliminate the devastating effects of low - expectations and close the achievement gap, we must create policies that combat the trivialization and dismissal of communities of color by counteracting teacher bias and valorizing the cultural and intellectual contributions of communities of color.

Not exact matches

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

There is a wave of new venture funds focused on bringing more diversity to Silicon Valley, by investing in women, people of color, or those of the LGBT community.

By choosing to only buy homes from Fannie Mae, the lawsuit says, Harbour ended up with homes in areas that experienced the largest amount of foreclosures, which are the same communities targeted by subprime - mortgage lenders — communities of coloBy choosing to only buy homes from Fannie Mae, the lawsuit says, Harbour ended up with homes in areas that experienced the largest amount of foreclosures, which are the same communities targeted by subprime - mortgage lenders — communities of coloby subprime - mortgage lenders — communities of color.

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

Even more disturbing, an updated report by the Center for Responsible Lending on payday lending in Colorado found that even in affluent communities of color, the likelihood of a nearby payday store is greater than in low - income, predominantly White areas.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Few people are willing to share so that communities can provide the physical well - being and spiritual care needed by all our country's citizens (male and female, white and of color, rich and poor) Too often we take the easy way out and pass responsibility to the next generation.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Although some immigrant Christians of color descend from people originally evangelized by Europeans, in most cases the faith has been long carried by indigenous communities.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

Janie finds it by being true to her own poetic, creative consciousness; in The Color Purple Walker's characters discover it through the strength and wisdom available in the community of women.

The immediate public reaction in the USA was colored by «Islamophobia» and «Arabophobia», somewhat similar to Christianophobia and Judeophobia among a number of Muslim communities around the globe.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

Superpowered kicks off on March 27 in San Francisco, with a family - style dinner by Gabriela Cámara at her restaurant Cala, in honor of Aileen Suzara, a cook and educator who's working with communities of color to promote vibrant, healing food cultures.

By promoting health equity, which will aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health for women of color in the D.C. Metro Area, we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities.

Therefore, BWI does not condone silencing, tone policing, or otherwise oppressing marginalized groups, nor does BWI discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Last week at McDonald's annual shareholder's meeting, CEO Don Thompson got caught off - guard when a team of 15 advocates, led by Corporate Accountability International, descended upon corporate headquarters to question the fast food leader's relentless exploitation of children and communities of color.

The range of colors is a huge plus as we see countless black and gray strollers, so to see a company design a twin stroller with color options is a much appreciated change by the multiples community.

We saw a need for a resource built and held by communities of color, and we created the PMHA - WOC to support women, families, and professionals.

PMHA - WOC Statement: PMHA - WOC was created to fill a gap in support services for professionals and communities of color around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and we are thrilled to have our work supported by an organization that has been a leader in our field.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

«For communities of color that are disproportionately affected by increased policing, this bill empowers us and it protects us.»

This epidemic affects mostly young children of color from low - income communities who live in poorly maintained housing, where windows, doors, walls and ceilings produce invisible lead dust that is ingested by infants and toddlers through hand - to - mouth behavior and inhalation.

«If you have been a person of color and you stood out on the sidewalk and a taxi passed you by, if you are someone that is trying to figure out how to make ends meet from our communities, and «I just need a job to make sure I have an opportunity for my family,» if I'm just trying to figure out how to have more justice in my communities, that's why you stand on the side of Uber,» he said.

'' «Race baiting» like «red baiting,» exploiting the values and legitimate concerns of our city's communities of color, for whatever political purpose, is abhorrent and posits a dangerous and expanding wedge in a city all to segregated by class, color and community,» Mr. Acosta stated, noting that Roberto Perez, a city hall staffer, encouraged him to speak out.

He said the state has «condemned» 250,000 children — often poor and of color — to failing schools, and proposed a model for turning those schools around by handing them over to nonprofits or turnaround experts to create «community schools.»

By 1990, already 25,000 New Yorkers had died from AIDS - related illnesses, with many more infected — gay and bisexual men, injecting drug users, and increasingly women, especially in communities of color.

«By embracing My Brother's Keeper, communities across the state are coming together to create opportunities for boys and young men of color,» Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

This is a health emergency, and not the first health emergency overlooked in a community predominantly made up by people of color.

Following Hillary Clinton's bruising defeat by now President - elect Donald Trump last month, Blake sees an opportunity to draw from the election's «learning lessons»: continuously mobilizing and organizing among communities of color, millennials and women and a consistent economic message for all communities «regardless of your zip code.»

We will also be targeting communities of color who feel abused and neglected by the Cuomo administration and his austerity policies on schools, criminal justice and human services,» said Hawkins, a working Teamster from Syracuse who unloads truck at night for UPS for a living.

The group linked those practices, which they say unfairly and unconstitutionally target communities of color, with Davis» death, as well as that of Jose Hernandez - Rossy, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Black Rock in May.

«It will disadvantage communities of color and communities of working class individuals,» said Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who was joined by Comptroller John Liu, State Sen. Bill Perkins, and City Council members from across Manhattan.

But pressure is mounting on Cuomo from the minority community through a flyer being distributed by The Fair Redistricting Caucus of Color, which urges the governor to veto the lines.

Civil rights advocates last week testified during a LATFOR hearing that the lines unfairly divided communities of color in central Nassau County as well as in Brentwood - Islip in Suffolk County, splitting minority voters — who tend to vote for Democrats — among districts now represented by white Republican incumbents.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

«If approved, this proposal [to not fund the new transfer stations] almost exclusively concentrates the burden of handling NYC's solid waste in a handful of low - income communities of color in Brooklyn and the Bronx — yet again,» it said in a press release sent out by the New York Environmental Justice Alliance.

But NYCC executive director Jonathan Westin called the alleged threats by Cuomo a «vicious and indefensible» attack on «communities of color and working people in our state.

Earlier this month, the gubernatorial candidate said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

Others will blame him for his policing tactics, commonly known by the term «Broken Windows,» which critics say exacerbated a breach in trust and respect between the NYPD and New Yorkers, particularly those in communities of color who they say have felt an unequal brunt of enforcement.

In an interview earlier this month, Nixon said that communities of color hard hit by the war on drugs should get first crack at legalized pot as a «form of reparations.»

On Tuesday, supporters argued a cap on future Uber growth would harm people of color by limiting job growth and restricting ride access for minority communities in the outer boroughs.

Today's announcement was made during the City's first «Homelessness Among LGBTQ Persons of Color Awareness Breakfast,» sponsored by the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Youth & Community Development held at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

Income segregation among black and Latino families is now much higher than among white families, which means that low - income communities of color suffer more than ever from a double segregation by race and class.

The Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus praised the «show of solidarity» by Johnson and Sharpton with communities of color who «first sounded the alarm» about the disparities.

De Blasio's version, aggressively lobbied for by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is simply the latest example of a rebranding campaign for a police department that has overplayed its hand in communities of color for years.

His goal, that source speculated, was to highlight his concerns about police relations with communities of color — an objective now likely overshadowed by his ham - handedness on social issues.

Olivas's Parity Project addresses this problem by helping its 25 member media organizations locate reporters of color and by setting up community boards whose members advise those organizations on what kinds of stories need to be told.