Sentences with phrase «on young black males»

Other readers fix on my observation that there are good reasons why police focus on young black males.

I'm not sure how to respond other than to make some very broad statistical observations strongly suggesting that, given their mandate to prevent crime, law enforcement agencies rightly focus on young black males.

Not exact matches

As Jesse Jackson observed in an unguarded moment, if you see five young white males coming from a Bible class on one side of the street and five young black males hanging out on the other side, you have no trouble in knowing which side of the street you want to be on.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

I observed that young black males attract the «special attention» of law enforcement, and that any population focused on by people with guns — even law enforcers — will suffer a disproportionate amount of police violence.

«Some of our police officers are making race - based discretionary decisions on who they're going to arrest for low - level marijuana possession,» said Leroy Gadsden, the president of a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jamaica, Queens, and the chairman of the criminal justice committee for the statewide N.A.A.C.P. «Therefore, of course, if you're a young, black male, even a female, you're going to feel that you're being targeted when you notice that your white counterparts are not being arrested for the same thing.»

These websites are being produced on interest - based where you can find single parents, vegetarians, couples, black people, and gay people etc. but most probably these sites used for young males to make contact with older ladies.

Handsome educated young black male with no kids no criminal record and I'm single with plenty of time on my hands

hello ladies im a very handsome young 27 year old black male living in the fort worth area looking for older mature women who is on here looking to have a good time.

A mashup of «Some Like It Hot» (leering rooster - in - the - henhouse voyeurism) and «Glee» (peppy musical interludes), that, on the plus side, grapples with the potent issue of young black male identity...

This film is an introspective meditation on what it means to be young, black, and male in America.

«It transforms their mentality when we focus on their assets instead of the deficits that society so often focuses on when it comes to young black males.»

A significant milestone in this work was the launch of President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Initiative, which seeks to shine a light on the issues impacting young black male students both in the classroom and in their communities and to leverage governmental, philanthropic and private sector support to address these issues.

Meaning, will a young black male student like me... with dysfunctional parents be left to make it on his own with no support?»

Principal Kafele will share proven strategies he's used over his 21 year «mission» as a public school teacher and principal which inspired thousands of his Black male learners to consistently soar academically through the following five strands: Attitude toward Black Male Learners, Relationship with Black Male Learners, Compassion for Black Male Learners, Relevance in Instruction and an in depth discussion on how to launch a Young Men's Empowerment Program in your schmale learners to consistently soar academically through the following five strands: Attitude toward Black Male Learners, Relationship with Black Male Learners, Compassion for Black Male Learners, Relevance in Instruction and an in depth discussion on how to launch a Young Men's Empowerment Program in your schMale Learners, Relationship with Black Male Learners, Compassion for Black Male Learners, Relevance in Instruction and an in depth discussion on how to launch a Young Men's Empowerment Program in your schMale Learners, Compassion for Black Male Learners, Relevance in Instruction and an in depth discussion on how to launch a Young Men's Empowerment Program in your schMale Learners, Relevance in Instruction and an in depth discussion on how to launch a Young Men's Empowerment Program in your school.

Fourteen years — and numerous reports on racial and gender achievement gaps — later, the former Chicago Public Schools Chief of Staff's grassroots efforts have fostered organizations focused on improving education for young black men such as UCLA's Black Male Institute and Success for Black black men such as UCLA's Black Male Institute and Success for Black Black Male Institute and Success for Black Black Boys.

Hopefully it will be warmly embraced by young and old, rich and poor, male and female, black, white, brown, yellow, or of whatever orientation — religious, political or any other differentiating metric you like — and will be a mega hit, enabling me to infuriate my critics as well as the angry throng of clowns that continues to congregate on my front lawn once I've had a few pops to take the edge off (and don't tell me we haven't all been there).

But Fort Gansevoort flips the script on millennia of male - dominated athletics with art works by thirty - one women made between the mid-twentieth century and now, from Elizabeth Catlett's jubilant 1958 print of a barefoot girl jumping rope to a just - finished collage of a pigtailed boxer by Deborah Roberts, a young artist who borrows the Dadaist strategies of Hannah Höch for the era of Black Lives Matter.

In his 1993 piece In the Hood, Hammons nailed the hood from a sweatshirt up on the wall as a representation of a young and black male, evoking lynching and hanging.

Figures from June 2007 suggest that one third of young black males are on the NDNAD, as compared with one eighth of young white males.

Unfortunately, the risk of gun violence still falls disproportionately on young African Americans in my community, particularly black males.