Sentences with phrase «of racial divides»

King thus confronted the most critical task any leader faces when seeking to promote racial harmony: assuring the «good people» on each side of the racial divide that their counterparts on the other side do, in fact, exist.

Loving is a handsomely crafted drama about two mild - mannered, yet courageous souls from opposite sides of the racial divide in late 1950s Virginia, who followed their hearts in strict defiance of the Racial Integrity Act, which criminalized interracial marriages in the state.

As the two men work together, they also help the members of the Titans learn tolerance, cooperation, respect and even love for those on the opposite side of the racial divide.

A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation - and the next - began to see their world anew.

I came away from the book with a deeper understanding of the heart of the racial divide that continues to affect us (the United States in particular) to this day.

The author expresses these feelings with intensity and realism, and I came away from the book with a deeper understanding of the heart of the racial divide that continues to affect us (the United States in particular) to this day.

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While he ran on a somewhat distasteful platform of racial, gender - based and economic divide, a few of his ideas seem popular with investors.

There's a huge racial divide in football — while 13.3 percent of the country's population is black, 70 percent of professional football players are.

I predict millennials in particular will continue to drop out of religious life, and the ethnic divides within American Christianity, which many sought to heal with a quick - fix approach to «racial reconciliation» that bypassed repentance and justice, will only widen.

Indeed, the entire affair illustrates how powerfully two separate levels of deliberation about racial matters» that of the American polity as a whole and that of blacks by and among themselves» can interact with each other, on both sides of the political divide.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

The fundamental notion of dividing society into saints and sinners, separating the saints from the sinners as much as possible, and then instituting a system of external controls to bring the sinners into at least outer conformity with the moral expectations of the saints, originally had nothing to do with the relations between ethnic and racial groups.

Here is one strong root of recent attempts to heal the ugly racial divide in this country's churches.

Who has a vested interest in the racial divide of modern politics?

Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

Answer hinges largely on race A survey released Thursday shows striking racial and religious divides over the role of religion in presidential politics.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

If white folks and black folks had equally positive levels of trust for each other there wouldn't be a racial divide.

Much of the dialogue following the Charleston killings has focused on the Confederate flag, which has long been considered a symbol dividing the South along racial lines.

The number of stop and searches carried out under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has also continued to rise with a marked racial divide.

A new Quinnipiac poll highlights the racial divide in the stop and frisk debate with blacks opposing the policy, while a majority of whites and hispanics support it.

The same Quinnipiac poll that found the mayor's approval at a low point earlier this month showed what The Times dubbed a «stark racial divide,» with 64 % of African - American voters saying they approve of his performance.

However, a deep racial divide underscores both de Blasio's approval rating and questions pertaining to the general condition of New York City.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who has long put religion and racial reconciliation at the center of his life, is on a mission to heal a racial divide among Baptists and help the country soothe rifts that he believes are getting worse.

«Christine Quinn [a top Democratic rival] carried the east side of Manhattan in the primary, Joe Lhota [Mr. de Blasio's Republican rival in the general election] did unusually well in the Trump Towers part of the West Side, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.»

But simply trying to hire the best teachers regardless of their race ignores the racial schisms that have led to the sharp divide in these districts.

There was a sharp racial divide, with Mr. Stringer winning about two - thirds of white voters, and Mr. Spitzer winning about two thirds of black voters.

But there's a large racial divide, with 53 % of black voters saying Weiner should remain in the race, and 64 % of white voters saying it's time for him to hang it up.

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

Both Rangel and Thomas are people who can cross the racial divide, even if you disagree with what they are saying, because they say it in a way that reminds of friends and family.

Racial Divide One aspect of maternal mortality that has not changed over the years is the extent to which it varies by race.

The simple fact is that the legacy of a generation is tied to the outcome of the racial and gender divide.

When they reviewed data on 1 million children ages 10 and younger, the authors found a deep racial divide in diagnosis rates of strabismus.

Open racial dating is something that needs to be supported in current times of global unrest as combining traditions sets the scene to better understand divided races.

The UK is becoming a racial melting pot with a surge in the number of relationships and marriages across ethnic dividing lines in the last decade, according to official figures.But while the number of people from black, Asian and mixed - race backgrounds settling down with someone from another group have all risen, white people remain by far the most segregated on the domestic front.

Now streaming on Netflix, Mudbound explores the racial divide of the post-WWII South with sharp commentary and heart - wrenching results.

Correctly, Seidl understands that his commentary is rather unnecessary, that the power of the work comes from the very ordinariness of the couples and families participating, the racial divide in the work involved in this industry, and his unflinching capturing of events we know occur but usually repress.

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

This is a key element he explored in the film, with African characters from the fictional country of Wakanda, which has never been colonized or even had any trade relationships with western countries, and African - American characters, who reflect the stress of living in a country still confronting racial divides.

Here I expect the differences in species to be a possible plot point (an allegory to the current racial / religious / class divide) as well as the definition of what makes a family (Arlo, the dinosaur is an orphan).

Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck's six - years - in - the - making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.

The bridging of social, age and racial divides is handled not as a celebratory, back - patting recognition of «progress» but a necessary act of survival.

I honestly think that's why so many people across all kinds of cultures and racial divides identify with this movie because they either remember a coach that did something for them that impacted their life in a positive way or are coaches doing that very thing.

Here we have a true story of how a leader used an athletic competition to help ease racial divides and unite a country,... Continue reading

Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»

Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.

No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson Director: Steve James Steve James returns to his hometown of Hampton, Virginia to examine the 1993 bowling alley brawl that landed Allen Iverson, the nation's top high - school basketball player, in jail and divided the community along racial lines.

The events of the film are much more important to the African - American community, and to America as a country trying to overcome its great racial divide, but somehow Washington manages to make the film much more about the significance of the individual characters first.

Most of the reports about the digital divide center around racial and socio - economic differences (a 2010 study confirmed that household income is the greatest predictor of Internet use).

[ii] See Sara Goldrick - Rab, Robert Kelchen, and Jason Houle (2014), «The Color of Student Debt: Implications of Federal Loan Program Reforms for Black Students and Historically Black Colleges and Universities,» Wisconsin Hope Lab Discussion Paper, Madison, WI; Mark Huelsman (2015), «The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the «New Normal» of Student Borrowing,» Washington, DC: Demos.