Sentences with phrase «on racial inequality»

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

The demonstrations are focused on racial inequality, police brutality, and oppression of people of color in the United States.

Visit a local forum on racial inequality.

Documentation of disparities: In order to better understand and prevent what leads to racial inequality in legal decision - making, more data are needed on racial inequalities in policing and trial outcomes.

Continuing on from reminiscing about her childhood, she expresses her concerns on the racial inequalities that surface within the Hartford school system, though first taking the chance to say that though she hates white people and does not care whether white teachers hate her or her children, «All I want from teachers is education.

Not exact matches

To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

Their response has been to promulgate a de facto doctrine of «benign neglect» on the issue of continuing racial inequality.

Judging by the #Justice4Janet hashtag from October, people are looking for true fairness and reconciliation between the two, in addition to bucking against what appears to be an example of racial and gender inequalities on display as a microcosm.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

All eyes have been on NFL players who are protesting police brutality and racial inequality during the national anthem.

That's not surprising after the ESPN article characterized most of the owners» concerns as squarely on business, ratings, and sponsorships, and seemed to show the group as dismissive of the concerns of racial inequality that prompted protests in the first place.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

But, he outlined three threats to American democracy — economic inequality, racial divisions and the retreat of different segments of society into «bubbles», where opinions are not based on «some common baseline of facts».

Morelle said his campaign will focus on issues like universal healthcare, women's right to choose, gun violence, economic opportunity for working families, the opioid epidemic and racial inequality.

Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

«Whilst we welcome the intention behind the audit of public services to address racial disparities, the fact is that in education, the Department for Education is already in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people, teachers and the education workforce in general.

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From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York City.»

Cuomo doubled down on his attacks on the city's public housing and jail systems — calling both glaring examples of racial and economic inequality.

Nixon also called on the governor to increase education funding, and said she would «commit to ending racial and economic inequality in this state.»

«Sex and the City» actress and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon on Wednesday called for New York to legalize recreational marijuana to reduce racial inequality and raise millions of tax dollars.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Though we may try to live healthy and vital lives, the fast pace of an urban, globalized and internet - driven world and the systemic social, economic, racial and gender inequalities therein can cause severe wear and tear on the body, mind and heart.

On top of that, the crusade against racial inequality has served to ease the global perception of interracial dating.

A New York Times Critics» Pick, White Girl generated controversy for its head - on exploration of female sexuality, white privilege, and racial inequality.

It showcases the action and drama on and off - court while touching on poverty and racial inequality.

Grounded in heavy research into the lives of women who have been the victims of sexual exploitation, «Hold Me Down» shines a spotlight on overlooked individuals and the legacy of centuries of racial inequality.

The attention - grabbing headline is likely the first of many that will shine a light on Hollywood's gender and racial pay inequality.

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Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty.

Fryer, an economist at Harvard, has written extensively on education and racial inequality.

«This allowed me to build on some of the work that I'd done as an attorney while pursuing my interest in studying racial inequality,» she says.

Her research interests focus on racial desegregation and inequality in K - 12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other metropolitan policies.

A top - down union that fails to address broader problems rooted in class and racial inequality and whose capitulation on major issues (as identified in planks 1 - 4 of this document) has had a disproportionately negative effect on communities of color and those who live in poverty.

A just - released Center of American Progress report sheds new light on the lingering vestiges of racial inequality in our schools, specifically on inequity in spending on students of color.

Today we are calling on our judicial and legislative leaders to take another courageous stand in the face of the grave racial inequalities that have persisted through to our educational system today.

«Connecticut has not solved all the problems of racial inequality in education or other aspects of opportunity but it is unique in the Northeast of working creatively on the challenge and making some real, measurable progress.

Since its founding 16 years ago, CRP's central focus has been on racial and ethnic inequalities in educational opportunities, and on policies that could remedy the resulting inequalities in school outcomes.

The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America's history of racial inequality.

The campaigns against cultural appropriation, like that against Exhibit B, empower not those suffer from racism or inequality but, in the acid words of the African - American critic Adolph Reed, «the guild of Racial Spokespersonship», those who take it on themselves to be the guardians of the acceptable.

The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the colors blue and black as formal elements on the one side, and associations with the colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and the specific kind of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.

Developing its collection of contemporary art that addresses politically charged issues, the museum has also acquired a large work on paper by Kara Walker, who is celebrated for her artistic explorations of racial inequality, and a photograph by Shirin Neshat that explores gender within post-revolutionary Iran.

In the mid-80s, the Guerrilla Girls burst on to the scene fighting against sexual and racial inequality in the arts.

Set in the ravaged landscape south of Johannesburg, the films depict the ongoing racial inequalities of contemporary life, while also reflecting on the human condition — the psychological traumas that remain as vestiges of South Africa's devastating sociopolitical past.

From small non-profit art centers to major cultural institutions in the region, these partners will be highlighting gender and racial inequalities, taking on stereotypes and hypocrisies, and promoting artistic expression by the often overlooked and underrepresented.

A tour of the show's paintings should include the Fine Art Society, where you'll find three canvases by Walter Sickert — most outstandingly the war - themed 1914 «Tipperary» — along with lively floral still lifes, all from the 1920s, by Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood and William Nicholson, Britain's genius of light At Jonathan Boos, the centerpiece is «The Pigeons,» from 1948 - 49 by the Magic Realist Henry Koerner, which encompasses income inequality, childhood fear, racial strife and romance, all on a pink marble stair shown to be made of brick.

Originally focused on improving race relations among youth in Greater Boston, the Foundation's mission today is to support programs addressing inequality in its various forms, including racial, ethnic and gender disparities in both Greater Boston and metropolitan Washington, D.C., and to raise awareness about these issues.