Sentences with phrase «on racial issues»

Being in one of the very few mixed - race schools in the country at the time, allowed Sandile to form a perspective on racial issues that many of his generation — irrespective of colour — are still grappling with.

Just because you've begun to date interracially, doesn't mean you're an expert on racial issues.

Ryan also claims that America's mainstream media will only confront presidents on racial issues in «crescendo moments», such as with the Charleston shootings or in the aftermath of the apocalyptic Hurricane Katrina.

He did that by speaking out on racial issues and — with Rachel, then a nurse at NYU, at his side — involving himself in politics.

In part two of this series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks when white evangelicals will address this issue.

In part two of a series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks when white Evangelicals will address this issue.

That morning our conversation landed on racial issues before we made it to the interstate.

It was here that King had his first frank discussion on the racial issue with his colleagues, his friends, and Professors.

It's a feeling that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on the racial issue that it chooses to make part of the characters» moral journey.

Not exact matches

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.

But these harassment issues have come under particular scrutiny in 2016 amidst racial tension through the U.S. and after the ailing Twitter was unable to secure acquisition bids from major media companies due to concerns with the quality of the community on Twitter.

Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a time when racial tensions in America have been on the rise.

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.

It's a welcome thing, to be sure, in a landscape that are largely dominated by men — the lack of gender and racial diversity among VCs and entrepreneurs and even on tech boards has become a hot - button issue in Silicon Valley.

«Most of the paid ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.

«Catholic leaders issued a letter Friday to GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, themselves Catholics, urging them «to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.»

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

But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

Loki, his «church» was quite literally FOUNDED on the principle that Southern slavery was Biblical and just; further, that «church» has NEVER issued a binding, formal apology for its support of slavery, racial etiquette, and Jim Crow; in fact, they were their most ardent supporters.

I don't feel badly asking whites to engage on issues of racial reconciliation, because I'm asking you to be obedient.

If whites reject racial preferences as unfair to them, and if politicians campaign on the issue, the problem is construed as a lack of restraint by unscrupulous candidates who are willing to use divisive tactics to achieve their ends.

The Kerner Commission issued its monuinental report on the racial crisis.

Back in the 1990s, before Brenda Salter McNeil was a professor and ordained pastor, she founded Salter McNeil & Associates to speak and consult on issues of racial reconciliation in the church.

My life has largely centered on racial justice and issues affecting poor children and their families.

MLK Jr was a christian and he seemed to progress the nation on... racial issues at least.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

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.

In our contemporary situation, there may be no more important issue to preach on than race and racial diversity.

The same can be said for Miller's treatment of Fosdick's stance on issues relating to women and racial justice, the latter subject having an entire chapter devoted to it (chapter 24).

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

The fact is that, even though every other racial minority is at least split on the issue, as a party the Democrats and their black leaders have adopted an exclusively statist understanding of minority rights.

The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).

INTERESTING EVERYONE (STARTING WITH cnn) TAKES THE WORD THEOLOGY TO MEAN only RELIGION - IT MAY BE BUT IT ALSO IS DESCRIPTIVE OF A WAY OF THINKING WITHOUT THE USUAL CONNOTATION OF RELIGION - HERES A UNIQUE IDEA LETS HAVE THE MEDIA STOP HYPING THE RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL THINGS THAT HAVE NOT REALLY BEEN HAPPENING AND CONCENTRATE ON REAL ISSUES LIKE THE ECONOMY, JOBS AND THE DEFICIT.

The remainder of this chapter is reprinted with some changes and additions from my article on «The Racial Issue and the Christian Church» in The Church and the New World Mind.

A final set of juxtapositions is focused on contemporary events: racial strife, poverty, the press, political power, Jesus mania, and money are among the issues dealt with.

He more explicitly takes up the arguments of liberals within the mainline church who suggest that conservative histrionics over the inclusion of homosexuals are no different from the resistance to racial or gender inclusiveness or to revision to the Book of Common Prayer (indeed, conservatives on the issue of homosexuality are in some regrettable company in recent history).

Update: NBC issued a statement on Friday explaining there were no racial overtones intended.

The fact that racial disparity in initiation and even bigger one for duration has lingered for so long is reason enough to take 7 days to focus on the issue, but here are a few more:

«The fact that racial disparity in initiation and an even bigger one for duration has lingered for so long is reason enough to take seven days to focus on the issue,» BBW writes on its website.

Last year, her online commentaries on the social, structural and racial complexities of maternal and child health issues received over 10 million page views.

We will continue to shed light on pressing issues that affect maternity care like evidence - based are, obstetric violence, informed consent, access to midwifery care, access to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and racial and economic disparities, while helping local communities make the changes that best work for their own populations.»

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.

Pushed on the issue by Sky News, Miliband replied that while the comments were «a racial slur» he didn't «think of Nigel Farage as a racist himself... I've been careful of characterising him personally as a racist.»

The film is part of a curious new trend of British works on American racial issues, following last year's British - directed 12 Years a Slave.

When Lehrer asked him whether Schulkin evinced racial prejudice given that he singled out African - American, Latino and Asian neighborhoods, de Blasio said he would not weigh in on «what's going on in his soul,» calling his professional role the main issue.

The issue of marijuana arrests was highlighted by a New York Times report on the persistent racial gap in marijuana arrests.

His research focuses on understanding distressed urban neighborhoods, the redevelopment of shrinking cities, as well as issues of social isolation, racial justice and class facing people of color.

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.

Have any studies found that Republicans positions on political issues like spending cuts, social welfare, or Voter ID laws are correlated with their racial views more than Democrats?

On the issue of marriage for all, MYPs raised the often overlooked issue of transgender rights and one MYP even said, «it is morally repugnant that sexual inclusion has been left behind while racial and gender inclusion has come so far.»