Sentences with phrase «of young black men»

You will find disproportionate numbers of young black men in those places.

Everyone had already started talking about the murders of young black men by police.

In the aftermath of the news about the police shootings of young black men, she urged her teachers to discuss law enforcement and racial issues in class.

For example, do patterns of exposure to violence exist for different groups of young black men?

An entire generation of young black men is being destroyed by our drug war.

Yes, yes, yes to celebrating the beauty, style and intelligence of young black men and women!

Life and Times of Michael K is the story of a young black man who has been labeled retarded by the white authorities.

In light of recent events, the image of a young black man in a coffin speaks volumes as it is.

It says a lot about the tragic state of the world that the notion of a documentary about the death of a young black man in America can almost seem familiar.

A timeless story of human self - discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.

His wry, outsize portraits of young black men posing as 18th - century noblemen draw five to six figures through Deitch Projects, the SoHo gallery reserved for the art world's ascending glitterati.

Just 47 percent of Fulton County's Latino male freshmen in the original Class of 2006 graduated (versus 75 percent of their female peers), while only 66 percent of young black men graduated on time (versus 74 percent of young black women).

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

Coogler nods to those themes right away, opening Black Panther not far from the setting of Fruitvale Station, his debut movie about the wrongful death of a young black man on a transit train in Coogler's hometown of Oakland, Calif., establishing from the outset a link between fantasy and reality.

Yet when Marvel called, Coogler was no blockbuster director, but a promising young filmmaker with just two features to his name: the aforementioned Creed, and 2013's Fruitvale Station, the powerful story of the killing of a young black man by police in Oakland, which he made for just $ 900,000 — less than what Black Panther probably spent on catering.

This year's artist, Dan Bergeron, is working with students on a project entitled «1 in 4» that examines the practice of police carding in Toronto and the GTA from the perspective of young black men who have been subjected to carding.

The cops regaled the few dozen students in the auditorium with statistics about the large number of young black men killed by gun violence, then admonished them against cursing in the presence of adults.

Watch out for Moonlight (+600), the story of a young black man growing up in a rough neighborhood in Miami.

A recent study reveals that almost half of young black men in the UK are unemployed.

SYNOPSIS: A timeless story of human connection and self - discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing -LSB-...]

Its plot, though surreal and soaked in horror, is also quite timely, an examination of race relations from the perspective of a young black man in an inter-racial relationship.

In early 1963, he produced a report, titled «One - Third of a Nation,» that documented very high percentages of young black men in single - parent families who failed mental and physical tests for the military draft.

These works about recent police killings will pair pictures of young black men in hooded sweatshirts with text that recalls police reports, questioning whether the text constructs our perception of its paired image or the other way around.

«Ashes» is a two - part exhibition; the darkened gallery at 3 Duke Street, is filled with McQueen's short film; the on - screen image of a young black man sitting on the prow of a small boat, basking in the glory -LSB-...]

«The Sherman Park riots broke out this past year because the state educational system has turned its back on minority children in large urban areas,» Holtz said at a recent forum, referring to the August 2016 unrest in Milwaukee following the fatal shooting of a young black man by a police officer.

Jay Z even drew parallels between his situation and the police killings of young black men such as Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.

According to one recent study, over one - quarter of young black men in the critical age group twenty to twenty - four have dropped out of the economy, in the sense that they are not in school, not working, and not actively seeking work.

The vigil's organisers added: «Only weeks after the death of Edson De Costa in Newham after he was arrested by police, this latest incident continues the seemingly endless list of young black men dying at the hands of the authorities.»

The Christian MP for East Ham has told Premier prayers are needed for his borough after the death of a young black man triggered violent protests in east London, leaving six officers injured.

It is important to be afraid of young black men in Philadelphia.

After several hours of wrangling back and forth — rapping is the term we use — one of the young black men jumped up and yelled at me, «Father, what you are saying makes a lot of sense — what does not make sense is that white man's collar you have around your neck!»

They continued to trumpet Trice's story to a receptive audience — once each new wave of students heard the story of a young black man playing for his race, killed in action, they were hooked, ready to sign a petition, wear a «We'll Carry the Torch of Jack Trice» button, hawk Jack Trice T - shirts, write guest editorials in the city newspapers and even design commemorative stationery.

Tynes: Going directly to the faults and not glory of a young black man?

Blake says steps need to be taken to reverse the massive incarceration of young black men.

«Yet again the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short.

His dismissal of the «bad moral attitudes» of young Black men following the Broadwater Farm riots also reflects ministerial contempt towards so many other groups throughout that dismal decade.

Mr Mandela's comments follow a report by the Reach panel of experts that improving the achievements of young black men could lift the British economy by # 24 billion over the next 50 years.

But nationally, she said, «There's something happening with the preponderance of young black men being gunned down and police officers are not found responsible for that.»

Green was joined by grandmothers of two of the young black men rounded up in the federal sweep and sentenced under the RICO statute.

In another case, Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk suppressed evidence of a gun because the officers justified their pursuit and eventual arrest of a young black man because he was walking near a store where black men have congregated in the past and, at times, engaged in illicit drug activity.

«A lot of young black men out in East New York are scared of the police and, in some cases, the police are afraid of them,» Henry said.

While a raft of past research focused on factors that enable the academic failure of young black men, the special issue spotlights key academic and social factors — both positive and negative — that affect black students, through the eyes and in the words of the students themselves.

Did you know that 40 per cent of young black men in Britain are married to, or live with, a white partner?

(This is in part due to how news institutions debate the guilt of each young black man after his death — a distraction from the individual and collective trauma such losses engender.)

An emotionally stirring journey through the coming - of - age of a young black man in Miami, Moonlight has established Jenkins as one of the most vital storytellers on the independent film scene.

Wiley, a Los Angeles native, is world - renowned for his portraits of young black men adorned in the latest in hip - hop street style.

Watching Jordan subtly shift body language as he transitions his character from menace to charmer is to witness a bit of poetry in action, and it's moments like this that Fruitvale achieves its mission: capturing the nuances of a young Black man who was simply and complicatedly human.

Peele — better known for his comedy work in Comedy Central's Key & Peele — astutely taps into systemic racism that persists in America through the eyes of a young black man (played by Daniel Kaluuya) whose visit to the family home of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) turns tragic.

As the recent case of Trayvon Martin divides the U.S. along race lines once again, the film puts audiences squarely in the shoes of a young black man caught between his potential and his past.

Clearly, the story of a young black man struggling with his sexuality in the projects of Miami is beautifully shot and powerfully acted from the very start.