Sentences with phrase «of racial incidents»

But when the neighborhood's newfound calm is disturbed by a series of racial incidents, Sepha may lose everything all over again.

A series of racial incidents at a high school in Evergreen, Colo., has drawn the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and sparked concern among students, school officials, and community residents.

President Tom Rochon has faced criticism and protests for his handling of racial incidents and what some call top - down leadership.

The hockey program's healing isn't complete: In addition to having to come to grips with the implications of the racial incident, the Black Bears won't have a full complement of scholarships available until next season.

Arc of Justice «tells the true story of a racial incident in 1925 Detroit that put African American doctor Ossian Sweet on the stand for murder.

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This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson has apologized profusely for the incident, a major black eye for a company that paints itself as espousing progressive values and which famously caused a controversy in 2015 when it sought to foster discussions of racial matters between its baristas and customers, an idea it quickly dropped.

«Montgomery County — it's not the kind of place where racial incidents happen, but since last Tuesday they've been increasing in number.»

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

The incident happened after an arrest at a Philadelphia Starbucks reignited awareness of racial profiling in commercial spaces.

(CNN)-- Two black men whose arrest last month at a Starbucks spurred allegations of racial bias say they're happy with the settlements they've reached with the city of Philadelphia and the company — and that they hope the incident is remembered for positive outcomes such as an anticipated program...

In releasing stellar quarterly earnings, Starbuck's CEO vowed Thursday that the company will learn lessons from the ugly racial incident that occurred at one of its stores earlier this month.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

My Father was a victim of NUMEROUS racial incidents growing up in Myrtle Beach S.C..

Starbucks has since apologized for the incident and announced that it plans to close all 8,000 of it's U.S. stores for implicit racial bias training, which is both appropriate and proves that this is about something much larger than one isolated incident: this is about the ubiquitous, cultural fear of black people.

The national crusade for civil rights, a struggle still incomplete; the rise of student activism, spurred by the Vietnam war; and a couple of violent racial incidents in Ames ripened the atmosphere for the students of Iowa State to champion Trice, who had given his life for the school.

It was later revealed that a pattern of physical abuse and racial taunts allegedly led to Chen's death, prompting advocates to press the military for answers and eight of his fellow soldiers to be charged in the tragic incident.

On John Gambling's radio show this morning, Paterson talked about the controversial pardon of John White, the Long Island man who killed a teenager he believed was threatening his family in an incident that was clouded by racial animosity and he was asked if more pardons are to come.

Rochon has faced criticism over his handling of recent racial incidents and accusations of top - down leadership.

They say he has a long history of unresponsiveness to racial incidents.

In the paper, «Racial and Social Disparities in Bystander Support During Medical Emergencies in U.S. Streets,» York Cornwell and Currit analyzed data on nearly 22,500 patients from the 2011 National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) data set, which they linked to characteristics of counties where the incidents occurred.

Technically there is more racism as «defined» in NY and CA then in Mississippi... this is simply a raw numbers game... NY and CA have about 20 % of the entire US population between them, so you will have more racial incidents per capita in those two states.

The murders of these innocent black men stands as one of the most despicable incidents in the long, ugly history of racial conflict in America.

As you watch film about the Attica prison riots, which may have been touched off by a racial incident, the segment goes on way too long and seems to stray from the notion of a Black Power movement.

Recent events — a polarizing presidential election, incidents of racial and religious targeting, community violence, the sounding of once - fringe voices — have exposed ugly divisions in our country, as well as lingering stereotypes and entrenched biases.

A majority of high - school students have witnessed or heard about racial incidents with violent overtones, and nearly half would either join in or approve of the action, according to a recent poll by Louis Harris and Associates.

More than half of the 1,865 10th - to 12th - graders surveyed by the polling firm had knowledge of violent racial incidents; about one - fifth said such incidents happened «very often,» and 36 percent said they happened «once in a while.»

According to Dr. Stephen Russell at the University of Arizona, fully 75 % of all incidents that we call «bullying» employ hate speech and bias — racial bias, sexual orientation bias, gender bias, body - type bias and religious bias.

The figure has surged since 2008 - 9, with a 20 % rise in the proportion of total exclusions that were for incidents of racial abuse.

Instead, the letter gives as illustrations single incidents between two persons of different races where, in the absence of an explanation, differential sanctions can give rise to an inference of racial discrimination.

These policies have sparked controversy because of racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates as well as incidents in which students have been suspended or expelled for seemingly trivial infractions, such as making a paper gun (American Psychological Association, 2006).

Microaggressions tend to be a popular topic to give name to racial incidents that occur for students of color.

Incidents like Trayvon Martin's murder and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri are modern reminders of how much work Americans need to do to eradicate racial intolerance.

Thus, reduction of racial and ethnic disparities in higher education is essential not only for national economic development but also for reducing discrimination and prejudice incidents in wider societal context.

While many of the participating artists have experienced racial profiling and even violence from law enforcement, it is through the media that all of them have learned of important incidents in this history from Birmingham to Ferguson.

Now, investigations are ongoing in an incident of racial bullying at a Philadelphia school.

Morris» abuse of the plaintiff began with making inappropriate and derogatory racial comments and leaving demeaning emails on her desk and escalated to repeated incidents of sexual assault.

Though his behavior had been improving at Cross Creek, Cruz had two serious incidents, one in which he was talked into jumping off the back of a school bus, and another in which he was punched numerous times by a peer for using racial slurs.

Soutphommasane blamed growing reported incidents of racism and discrimination on a «deteriorating public debate» around asylum seekers that has a spill - over for all other cultural communities, including Aboriginal people, who experience significantly higher rates of racial abuse in everyday life than other Australians.

It unfolded in different ways and under different pretenses depending on the town, but in general the Great Retreat looked like this: Some incident sparked racial tensions, and then white residents rioted, burned blacks people's houses to the ground, and chased established populations of their neighbors away with deadly violence.

A federal court in New York has considered whether a white tenant's Fair Housing lawsuit alleging incidents of racial discrimination by the landlord against visitors to the tenant's apartment could proceed to the jury.

It's the same as the recent incidents of racial abuse on the buses.