Sentences with phrase «other people of color»

«When the support group comes from other people of color they can validate the fact that you aren't crazy and what you are experiencing is legitimate,» he adds.

I doubt that my perspective is unique among other people of color.

It's not other people of color, it's white people putting that forward in our national conversation, as well as conversations in our communities.

After slavery Christian terrorist using the name Ku Klux Klan burned crosses and lynched Black people and other people of color for eighty years or more.

Johnson is proposing a unique approach to combat the depressingly repetitive, dehumanizing experiences that black people and other people of color too frequently experience in retail spaces.

Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists who are interested in hosting conversations, creating safe place, opening opportunity to connect and build with other people of color (PoC) and allies who are socially engaged / community artists and grassroots activist type folks interested in creative ways of making change happen.

Mat Johnson likened West to Samuel L. Jackson's character Stephen from Django Unchained, a twisted slave who sees himself as above other people of color.

Having to prove myself over and over again took a lot out of me; yet I didn't have many other people of color to confide in.

Consequently, many also take the opportunity to «give back» to other persons of color in the scientific community by encouraging minority reviewers to develop into panelists and recruiting principal investigators from minority serving institutions for panels.

I was especially excited to hear from other people of color who wanted to add their personal thoughts and experiences to mine, and have decided to feature some interviews as part of an ongoing series.

I think of the ways in which even other people of color might stereotype them.

I seek to resist the labels put upon me and other people of color by reimagining what an alternative future could look like.»

The fact that BTR achieves diversity is in itself a recruitment tool, says program director Jesse Solomon: «I think having a cohort that's half people of color makes a difference to other people of color coming to that program.»

In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African - Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time.

Fascinated by the diversity of mid-20th-century New York, renowned painter Alice Neels created portraits of people from all walks of life, including among her subjects a great number of African Americans, Latinos, Asians and other persons of color too often neglected in Western art.

I mean, the French were heavily interacting with Black people (among other Peoples of Color) during the time — that whole «slave - built colonies on the Americas» thing.

The Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists, educators, and activists of color hosting conversations with other people of color (PoC) and allies who are also socially - engaged artists, educators, and activists and / or interested in creative ways of making change happen.

Asian Americans are closer to whites than other people of color, but they still lag.

I would love to hear from Asian American readers, or other people of color, on this.

He's driving away Latinos and other people of color, young people, women, the disabled, the majority of Americans with a college education... not exactly a strategy to grow the party's base of support.

A past president and longtime board member of Brooklyn's Lambda Independent Democrats, he has focused on advancing LGBTQ issues but also ensuring that the community works in tandem with other key Democratic constituencies, including African Americans and other people of color.

Lakeith Stanfield plays Cassius Green, a minimum wage worker who's offered a promotion at his shady company, but his success comes at the price of taking advantage of his friends and other people of color.

The audience reflected the diverse voice cast of «Home,» with African - Americans making up 22 percent of the audience, Hispanics 15 percent and Asians and other people of color 15 percent.

Or the sense of watchful unease that plenty of urban citizens feel when they see law - enforcement officers approach African - Americans or other people of color?

January's horror film The Forest was only the latest example of Hollywood's long history of mediating Asian stories and characters through a white lens (a trend that certainly extends to other people of color).

«It was not just Africans — it was Indians and other people of color.

For decades, many urban fire departments had been the exclusive province of whites, thanks to explicit discrimination against blacks and other people of color.

The report states that «all LAUSD students, Latino or otherwise, receive a high school diploma only after gaining a foundational understanding of the experiences of Latino and other people of color.»

Among the many portraits of family, friends, neighbors, creatives, activists, and students by Alice Neel, are paintings of African Americans and other people of color she knew and admired in her neighborhood.

He has selected paintings that portray African Americans, Latinos, and Asians, and other people of color — locals and fellow artists and progressives among whom the artist lived.

Neel (1900 - 1984) is known for her portraits of fellow Harlemites and painted a wide selection of African Americans, Latinos, Asians and other people of color.

In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings of African - Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time.

In this exhibition, Als brings together a selection of Neel's portraits of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color.

In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African Americans, Latinos, Asians and other people of color for the first time.

EXHIBITION: Among the many portraits of family, friends, neighbors, creatives, activists, and students by Alice Neel, are paintings of African Americans and other people of color she knew and admired.

«In ALICE NEEL, UPTOWN, Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African - Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time.

As an active member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and The Interfaith Climate Justice Team, she is called to safeguard life and respect creation by urging decision makers to recognize and honor indigenous communities, other people of color, and our most vulnerable communities throughout the commonwealth that are most at risk of losing access to clean water; whether from contamination from coal ash, construction sediment, spilled oil, or rising sea levels.

«While it's an issue that affects all of us, like many other social justice issues, it is disproportionately affecting African - Americans, other people of color, low - income people and indigenous communities.»

I also specialize in counseling African - America women and other people of color.

A closer examination of the history of property rights shows that laws were changed so that whites could improve their lot in life through property ownership; not so for African Americans, Indians, and other people of color.