Sentences with phrase «on white teenagers»

The main story revolves around Sam Donager (Brooke Shields, The Bachelor, NBC's Suddenly Susan) and her gay husband Terry (Robert Downey Jr., Wonder Boys, Two Guys and a Girl), and their efforts to make a documentary on the influence of hip - hop on white teenagers.

Not exact matches

Every white supremacist doesn't go on a shooting rampage, just as every anti-gay activist doesn't beat a hom.ose.xual teenager to death or bully them to suicide.

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.

As Trump golfed in Florida, a group of teenagers staged a «lie - in» at the gates of the White House to protest the government's lack of action on gun control.

But the embattled Alabama Senate candidate, who is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted, harassed or made sexual advances toward teenagers, still appears to have the support of a big chunk of his base ahead of the special election being held on Dec. 12: Alabama's white evangelical Protestants.

On John Gambling's radio show this morning, Paterson talked about the controversial pardon of John White, the Long Island man who killed a teenager he believed was threatening his family in an incident that was clouded by racial animosity and he was asked if more pardons are to come.

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.

This allows for far larger reassurance and comfort than conventional Tooth White lightening kits allow, which is especially helpful for teenagers that face the daunting pressure of their peers on a daily basis.

DONNIE DARKO Newcomer Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, a tonal cross between Ang Lee and David Lynch, begins, for all intents and purposes, with a jet engine falling out of the sky and landing on the white - picket Darko residence, where the troubled title teenager lives.

The human is Captain Charles T. Baker (voice of Dwayne Johnson, who, in animated form, is a skinny, blonde, blue - eyed white guy — take that decision as you will), who lands in the backyard of our alien hero Lem (voice of Justin Long), a typical teenager who just got a promotion at the local planetarium and has a crush on Neera (voice of Jessica Biel), the girl next door.

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.

Taking place in the»80s, White Bird focuses on the coming of age of Kat (Shailene Woodley), a bored suburban teenager with little else to do besides sleep with the cute boy across the street.

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.

The White House will hold a conference on teenagers next week to explore ways to «raise responsible and resourceful adolescents,» President Clinton announced this month.

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.

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.

By saying that the average Halo player is a white teenager whom worships Master Chief is an indication of stereotyping on your part, and my experience of the Halo community has been great.

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.

In March, a small group of protesters blocked Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial based on open - coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955.

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.

If you doubt how powerful nostalgia can be, spend a moment looking at the simple selfie that Nebraska teenager Tom White took on July 13th.

From John Hughes on down, the white suburban teenager is a cherished figure in American culture, and that may give their pleas heightened visibility — even, perhaps, across party lines.

After that bedroom, I went on as a teenager to decorate a room with soft blue walls, and then one that had white walls and gray woodwork, so I haven't always used green for my rooms.

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