Sentences with phrase «on black teenagers»

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After releasing a documentary on Kalief Browder, who spent three years awaiting trial on Rikers Island and committed suicide two years after he was finally released, the two are now prepping a series of projects about Trayvon Martin — the 17 - year - old black teenager who was stalked and fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012.

Regardless of where people stand on the issue, the fact remained — an unarmed black teenager that reminded many black people of our cousins, brothers and nephews was killed and wouldn't be coming back (and it wasn't the first time).

Chris Duffett was on a street evangelism team with 12 bored teenagers who mostly didn't believe that God could do anything supernatural — but one got a clear picture of a woman in a red jacket with a fur collar, wearing black boots, and with severe stomach pain.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the «Jena Six» case is accused of beating a white classmate, was sentenced to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property.

As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

Bernhard Goetz shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers he thought were going to rob him on a subway train in Manhattan.

On a typical Tuesday evening he would face a crowd of teenagers from the Youth Ballet — the boys all suave in black leotards and white T - shirts; the girls infectiously pert, their hair in tight chignons; Laws in street clothes and ballet slippers.

Though Jack Black (The D Train, Sex Tape) gets his name above the title, the lead role goes to Dylan Minnette (Alexander and the... Bad Day, Labor Day), who plays Zach Cooper, a skittish teenager who has recently relocated with his mother Gale (Ryan, Bridge of Spies) from New York to (fictional) Madison, Delaware when she accepts a vice principal position on Zach's new high school.

Indeed, on the surface, «Finding Forrester» tells a similar story to that of Van Sant's 1997 Oscar - winning «Good Will Hunting,» with Connery playing the Robin Williams part and black teenager Rob Brown in the Matt Damon role, a gifted kid with a chip on his shoulder.

DuVernay will write and direct all episodes of the narrative drama, which focuses on the 1989 case in which five black teenagers...

After a pause at a security gate, the car drove through an upscale, predominantly black community, past typical suburban scenes — teenagers shooting hoops, people taking out their garbage, men working on their cars.

Aggressively Sundance - y on paper — a quirky coming of age tale about a misfit teenager who doesn't fit in, his unlikely black friend, and the terminally ill, cancer - ridden girl he befriends — one would be understanding of the reluctant viewer wary of indie movie clichés.

Lonely medical assistant Ruth (Melanie Lynskey, seething and magnetic, just as she was in Heavenly Creatures as a teenager) fumes at everything she sees: the obnoxious coal - roller in his monster truck spewing black smoke, the people who cut her off in line at the supermarket, the dog shit left on her lawn.

Documentary Directed by: Marc Silver On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, November 2012, four middle - class African American teenagers in a red SUV pulled into a Jacksonville gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeon controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeOn Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

A moving, somber, and occasionally brutal inversion of the Black Beauty narrative, Lean on Pete centers on Charley (Charlie Plummer), a neglected teenager who bounces around from home to home (and is occasionally homeless), meeting all sorts of adults along the way (Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, and Steve Zahn among them).

They are more than willing to overlook some inconsistencies and pounce on one of the teenagers» interest in the occult and appreciation for black clothes and heavy metal music.

Unfolding on a long, hot July night in 1967 Detroit, it depicts what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident (the title of a well - known book by John Hersey about that night), in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

«Jumanji» also stars Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Nick Jonas and focuses on four teenagers being sucked into the «Jumanji» video game, where they take on alter egos and have to beat the game to return home.

Based on the R - rated Black List approved script by Chris Baldi and re-written into much more broadly appealing (read: safe your for kids) version by «(500) Days of Summer» scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the film has a «Freaky Friday» or «17 Again» sort of vibe, as it tells the story of a teenager who meets a hologram claiming to be the adult version of himself; the hologram then helps guide the teen through high school.

So while it is rooted in its place and time, Marieme's story also takes on a wider resonance, as we watch her not so much come of age as deconstruct and reconstruct herself, several times over — even though her circumstances trap her, she acts with the kind of agency we rarely see female characters display, let alone black female characters, let alone black female teenagers.

B + The Central Park Five Not Rated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Documentarian Ken Burns, famous for his award - winning stories about American history, tackles a great injustice played upon five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were arrested and convicted for raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989.

A national debate on race was triggered last year when a black teenager was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson.

Although laws compelling 16 - year - olds to remain in school for an additional year increased by 0.16 years the average number of years of schooling that white teenagers completed, they had no impact on the number of years of schooling black and Hispanic teenagers completed.

On one occasion, she saw a burly white male teacher telling a group of black teenagers that they were stupid and that they had better realize it.

Other urban districts also have begun to focus on minority males to reduce the achievement gap or address skewed discipline statistics or stereotypes, all issues that have been magnified since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one - day trial, and soon bands of white «night riders» launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county.

A black teenager is forced to move to a small town but realizes that with the help of new friends he may be able to leave the bad influences behind and concentrate on football.

The American artist Glenn Kaino recently visited Ferguson, Missouri — the town torn by protests after a white police officer killed Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on 9 August — for a work he is due to unveil this weekend at his first solo show at the Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Dana Schutz depicted the open casket of Emmett Till, building the lynched black teenager's face up with paint and then gashing it on the canvas, and Henry Taylor painted the death of Philando Castile at the hands of police officer.

The prominent New York artist is displaying a series of oversize word paintings that touch on the story of the Harlem Six (a group of black teenagers who were wrongly accused of murdering a shopkeeper in 1964) as well as a set of neon installations that play with the word «America,» among other works.

On the first floor, in the midst of an array of Ofili's early, colorful paintings, many of them portraits, is Ofili's painting «No Woman No Cry» (1998), a portrait of Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager who was murdered while waiting for the bus in London in 1993.

Turner contenders on show The Herald; October 28, 1998; 380 words... murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence's parents and including... on display in the Turner Prize exhibition at the... black woman, and Stephen Lawrence's face appears in... win the # 20,000 Turner Prize for the young British...

Elephant dung artist tipped to win 20,000 pound Turner Prize The Scotsman; October 28, 1998; JACKIE BURDON; 568 words... the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, and which includes a lump... went on display at the Turner Prize exhibition yesterday.

(The latter painting was a response to the murder in London of a black teenager; it was subsequently found that the haphazard way in which the crime was investigated was a result of institutional racism on the part of the Metropolitan Police.)

By 1990, Hazel took black teenagers who rarely left Little Rock on field trips to climb nearby Pinnacle Mountain and picking strawberries.

Holding hand - scrawled signs and wearing black «Parkland Strong» T - shirts, the 40 teenagers filed warily into a committee room at Florida's state Capitol on Wednesday.

My favorite pair of pants when I was a teenager had black / grey / white animal print on it!