Sentences with phrase «of racial injustice»

The themes of racial injustice alone would make this movie «important,» but what she's done with her film makes it an epic.

There has also been considerable debate, not always to the film's benefit, of how it addresses the volatile topic of racial injustice.

I don't fully understand the present dynamic, and I don't think we will find the answer to our current problems by solely looking at the history of racial injustice in this country.

And we've seen, when issues of racial injustice flare up, vocal pro-lifers wonder why civil rights leaders don't seem as concerned about the injustice of abortion.

The exhibition (26 July - 3 September 2017) seeks to spark an honest conversation about the legacy of racial injustice in America today.

McCain called Johnson's conviction «a symbol of racial injustice» and «a shameful stain on our nation's history.»

Denene Millner's posts about parenting black boys as a black mother did far more to wake me up to realities of racial injustice in this country than my subscription to The New York Times, and Kristen Howerton's «Rage Against the Minivan» blog introduced me to the concept of white privilege in a way that made sense and inspired change.

Alongside Opal Tometi, they created the Black Lives Matter network, which has grown to 28 local chapters, each fighting a range of racial injustices like police brutality and racial profiling.

At the same time, many of the patrons of racial injustice throughout history have been Christians.

Noone could have lived through the sixties without being aware of the depths of racial injustice in our own country.

It is the hope of black Christians who choose to believe and forgive in the face of racial injustice, and of Christians of all races who join in the difficult work of restoration and reconciliation.

In the face of arguments that say we should move away from talk of privilege, I simply ask this: If exposure to the developing world and poverty can create a greater sense of moral perspective and responsibility, can't a deeper interaction with the historic and contemporary forms of racial injustice in our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibility?

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

The same day that the Department of Justice released a report detailing a pattern of racial injustice by the Ferguson police department, several protestors were arrested by officers.

If the Church wants to reach young people, we must stand in solidarity with victims of racial injustice

«Does this change the game as it applies to the crushing issues of racial injustice around us?

The album digs below the surface of racial injustice in America, and examines issues like gentrification, shameful parts of America's past, the use of racial slurs and more.

It's not easy for me to look into the depths of the injustice and pain, but I keep in mind that engaging the question of racial injustice is like reading The Screwtape Letters.

Silver continued: «It's not lost on me or anyone in this room that there's an enormous amount of racial tension in this country, an enormous amount of racial injustice, and I think our league has a role in addressing that issue.»

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

[This attitude] creates a context in which people raising claims of racial injustice are always on the defensive.

Doubtless in the coming weeks many will muse on the impact of a blockbuster primarily focusing on struggles within the black community instead of racial injustice, but even in the superb recent series by Ta - Nehisi Coates and the artist Brian Stelfreeze, the Panther's principal concern was the welfare of Wakanda.

But no one took quite as forceful a stand as Oprah Winfrey, who became the first black woman ever to win the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award and used her acceptance speech to give a searing rebuke of racial injustice, sexual abuse, and attacks on the integrity of the press.

While at the same time, Raoul Peck utilized unpublished works of James Baldwin and archival interview clips from the man himself to powerfully reflect on the current state of racial injustice in the United States with I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.

«Detroit» details a five - day uprising in 1967 in protest of racial injustices, which resulted in hundreds of injuries and 43 deaths, and began with a police raid of an after - hours nightclub.

It's a love story set against the backdrop of racial injustice in 1970s Harlem, with Jenkins saying it possesses a «huge relevance» to what's happening in America right now.

We are obviously meant to regard Troy as a symbolic black man sacrificed on the altar of racial injustice.

Young people also get involved in campaigning actively at the local level or for single, larger issues — activities which often have a strongly moral dimension, like protesting against acts of racial injustice.

And Brown only required the states to implement school desegregation «with all deliberate speed,» something less than a clarion call for immediately rectifying the effects of racial injustice.

Under this principle, she says, it's considered all right for a university leader to support affirmative action «because diversity improves the quality of education, but not as a means of addressing centuries of racial injustice.»

You have spent your time here learning to change the world through education in ways large and small, you have begun to understand what it takes to fulfill the promise of diversity, and you have engaged with the world beyond Appian Way during an exceptionally tragic year of racial injustice.

We strongly believe that if the legislature had the ability to assess the likelihood of racial injustices in potential legislation, Connecticut would make better public policy decisions that would positively impact both our members and the children they work with everyday.

As an activist, philosopher, and orator Douglass understood the power of images to right the wrongs of racial injustice that has plagued the United States from its very inception.

So I'm less interested in that, and more interested in picking apart and undoing and understanding the fabric of our nation and trying to really understand the roots of racial injustice,» said Clark.

The potent combination of racial injustice, community frustration, and one - dimensional media coverage pushed her to start a project portraying the residents of Imperial Courts.

Cox picked up on this reference, turning Nubia into Raje — a sexy black superwoman who rids the world of racial injustice.

We work to reform the criminal justice system's overreliance on incarceration and to dismantle systems of racial injustice.

This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: [Bryan] Stevenson's life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life....

This is a movie about injustice and racism, that wears its country's most uncomfortable legacies of racial injustice on its sleeves.

We talked to Trillia Newbell, a speaker and author whose books include United: Captured by God's Vision for Diversity, about how Christians can have productive conversations and take action on issues of racial injustice.

From arguments about the symbols of the civil war in the form of statues and flags to the symbols of racial injustice to the politicians discussing revisionist histories of the United States to divisive discussions around religious and non-religious people — a systemic anxiety has emerged in America.

and despite college and seminary was still abysmally ignorant concerning the realities of racial injustice.

Lee's seminal work, To Kill A Mockingbird — which illustrates themes of racial injustice and traditional class and gender roles — was...

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

The centuries - old legacy of racial injustice in Australia lingers throughout this evocative, melancholy Western from director Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah).

Do you think there are people of color, African - American men, in your town or in your city who have been mistreated by a police officer, local police, or are struggling with issues of racial injustice?

The documentary explores not only the current systematic problems that have led to mass incarceration (which disproportionately effects people of color), but also the America's history of racial injustice — and how the two are related.