Sentences with phrase «of ethnic minority communities»

It is for that reason that Boris Johnson's views on community relations are rejected by the overwhelming majority of ethnic minority communities in London.

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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.

We also have a bad habit of ignoring the continued growth of Christianity among immigrant and ethnic minority communities in the U.S.. What's something you wish more people knew about Asian American Christians?

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

The global market with its «neo-liberal» developments has weakened the liberal democratic subjecthood of individual persons, powerless groups such as racial and ethnic minorities, and local communities.

89 % terrorism 87 % economy 78 % immigration 78 % foreign policy 77 % gun policy 70 % Supreme Court appointments 70 % health care 70 % Social Security 62 % trade policy 59 % education 52 % abortion 51 % treatment of racial / ethnic minorities 34 % environment 29 % treatment of LGBT community [Pew Research Center # 8]

As a result, the core cities were slowly reduced to near - bankruptcy, becoming communities of the poor, of the elderly and of ethnic minorities at the bottom of the socioeconomic system.

The BabyFather Initiative Barnardo's BabyFather Initiative engages directly with ethnic minority fathers, many of them young, offering a range of parenting and other community based activities and services; and also supplying relevant training and consultancy services direct to professionals.

They are now lobbying for the creation of a new position on the college's equal opportunities committee entitling them to the same protections as disabled people, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community.

He has powdered his face to «whiten up» for the Operation Black Vote campaign to warn Britain's ethnic minority communities that not voting will «take the colour out of Britain».

It warns that the target of providing three million pensioners with the credit by 2006 has been missed, but notes that some of this is due to people, particularly in the less deprived areas or among ethnic minority communities, making a conscious choice not to take it.

In fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EU.

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

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Yesterday I argued that if the Conservative Party doesn't increase its support among Britain's black and minority ethnic (BME) communities then in the medium to long term it will cease to be a party capable of winning general elections.

Margaret Hodge today bowed out of the battle to become London Mayor, with a call for Boris Johnson's successor to be someone from the city's black and minority ethnic community.

We already know, for example, that members of Black and Minority Ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.

«The failure to protect the progress that schools, teachers and young people from minority ethnic communities have made over recent years risks leaving another generation of young black and Asian people unable to maximise their potential and their contribution to society.

The minister added: «I know that many services around the country are improving the care they provide for ethnic minority communities and I am confident that we have started to build the sort of service that can make the inequalities that the census confirms a thing of the past.»

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

Nearly four times as many people from ethnic minority communities voted Labour than voted Tory — and those different communities are a growing part of our population.

Cuomo has also appointed members of racial and ethnic minorities to important positions, including Assemblyman Darryl Towns (a former chairman of the caucus) as commissioner of Homes and Community Renewal; Mylan Denerstein serves as counsel to the governor and Alphonso David serves as Cuomo's deputy secretary for civil rights.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Far from being consigned to the textbooks of history, racism continues to blight the lives and life chances of black and minority ethnic children and young people, teachers and communities.

Runnymede points about that the Conservatives made little progress among minority communities at the last election despite a record number of ethnic minority candidates in winnable seats and despite Conservatives like Sayeeda Warsi playing a prominent role in the Tory campaign.

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.

We have become so hooked in this country on bending over backwards for every ethnic minority - a community centre here, an acceptance of a reluctance to learn English there — that we have forgotten the group that is struggling the most — the white working class.

The researchers found that a higher proportion of underrepresented minority matriculants used the community college pathways compared with white students or other racial and ethnic groups.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

There are distinctions within the LGBT community that are even more granular — individuals who are both LGBT and members of a racial or ethnic minority group.

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

«Harnessing that same will to learn that we see in many ethnic minority groups in white working class communities should be a part of the solution to the low attainment of many boys and girls.

A key goal of the MOBILIZE: LDN programme is to drive diversity in the workplace — encouraging more women, and young people form the Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, to enter the sector.

BAMEed has been created to raise the status of teaching among communities from ethnic minority backgrounds by encouraging career progression.

You're also less likely to have accessed nature if you're from a black and minority ethnic (BAME) community as, according to Natural England, just 56 per cent of under 16s from BAME households visited the natural environment at least once a week, compared to 74 per cent from white households.

He is Past President of the Society for Community Research and Action / Division of Community Psychology (27) of APA and has received the SCRA Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring Awards, as well as APA's National Psychological Consultants to Management Award.

Equipping ethnic and minority journalists with tools and skills to maximize the impact of their stories has been transformative to communities.

One aspect of the American Association of University Women's report on how schools educate girls that has elicited praise from the philanthropic community is its inclusion of research on girls who belong to ethnic and racial minority groups.

March 2013, Participated as an American representative at a conference on the legal and constitutional rights of racial and ethnic minorities in the European Community sponsored by the German government and the Center on Civic Education, held in Munich.

Minority Community Outreach http://www.nea.org/mco/index.html Through Minority Community Outreach, NEA aspires to: Strengthen relationships with current partners representing ethnic minority communities, and initiate new partnerships and / or projects around education and other issues of mutual iMinority Community Outreach http://www.nea.org/mco/index.html Through Minority Community Outreach, NEA aspires to: Strengthen relationships with current partners representing ethnic minority communities, and initiate new partnerships and / or projects around education and other issues of mutual iMinority Community Outreach, NEA aspires to: Strengthen relationships with current partners representing ethnic minority communities, and initiate new partnerships and / or projects around education and other issues of mutual iminority communities, and initiate new partnerships and / or projects around education and other issues of mutual interest.

Membership is open to anyone interested in working to address the educational needs of racial and ethnic minority students in our communities.

Strengthen relationships with current partners representing ethnic minority communities, and initiate new partnerships and / or projects around education and other issues of mutual interest.

In a letter to the heads of exam boards, she says she has received «numerous representations» from ethnic minority communities about fears that these languages would be dropped from A-levels and GCSEs.

The Johnella Martin / TEA Statewide Minority Affairs Conference is designed to provide an opportunity for ethnic minority members of the Tennessee Education Association to receive pertinent information and training to assist them in their profession and community oMinority Affairs Conference is designed to provide an opportunity for ethnic minority members of the Tennessee Education Association to receive pertinent information and training to assist them in their profession and community ominority members of the Tennessee Education Association to receive pertinent information and training to assist them in their profession and community outreach.

Recent research suggests that a utility - value intervention in which students write about the usefulness of what they are learning for achieving prosocial goals (e.g., giving back to one's community) could be particularly motivating for first - generation and underrepresented racial / ethnic minority students.

To understand why, it's important to understand the history underpinning the birth, development, and expansion of the IQ test — a history that includes the use of IQ tests to further marginalize ethnic minorities and poor communities.

He was the son of Jim Beesom Wiwa, a businessman and community chief of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s.

The Edinburgh Mela Festival first begun in 1995 by the ethnic minority communities in the town and has evolved into a large annual affair filled with programmes of music, dance, theater, sports, arts and crafts, and activities for children.

The lodge employs some 27 staff from a neighbouring Kamu community, one of Laos» ethnic hill - tribe minorities.

One of its most damning findings is that «the dominant culture of the organizations is alienating to ethnic minorities, the poor, the LGBTQ community, and others outside the mainstream.»