Sentences with phrase «overcoming racism»

She has presented at the Overcoming Racism, Minnesota Education Association, and NAEYC conferences.

We recognize our role in developing equitable schools and have partnered with Overcoming Racism, an organization committed to helping schools and organizations disrupt oppressive practices and promote equity.

With a primary focus on education, Overcoming Racism equips educators with the tools to build culturally responsive schools and classrooms, that promote the development of the next generation of anti-racist agents of change.

In collaboration with Overcoming Racism, Kickboard is focused on supporting equity in schools.

Overcoming Racism helps schools to reflect on their school systems and determine if the messages that they send to students through curriculum, values, initiatives and language empower or disempower.

While the film's aim is to illustrate the glory of Owens overcoming racism in two countries and defeating Hitler's racist world view, it also seems to gloss over some hard truths.

Overcoming Racism In An Interracial Relationship.

Fatima, I agree with what you are saying and I do think anti-Muslim prejudice has become the biggest prejudice, perhaps overcoming racism and sexism (although it includes elements of both).

In the last year, it has added an additional component, overcoming racism.

Although the young Graham refused to countenance segregated seating in his crusades (often at the price of sullen resistance from white supporters), he seems to have expended equal energy urging civil rights protesters to go slow — giving credence to Reinhold Niebuhr's charge that he expected Christians to give up peccadillos like smoking and cussing overnight, but overcoming racism might understandably take a while.

Overcome Racism!

«He trained and worked incredibly hard to achieve his success and break world records, but he also had to overcome the racism of the time and the controversies concerning his participation in the 1936 Olympics.

If I had doubts about whether racism is a serious threat to people of color in the U.S. today, the anger and threats of violence directed at this class are their own proof that we have a long, long way to go to overcome racism.

Through such instruction, Community Academy shows students how to resist in ways that overcome racism as a barrier to success and that have positive long - term outcomes for both individuals and communities.

Not exact matches

The illegitimate daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper, she overcame poverty, parental neglect, sexual abuse and racism to become one of the richest and most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

While, I might dream that we will one day overcome this form of racism — that isn't the reality we live in.

Third, in spite of the dark nature of the topics he covered — war, depression, racism, and genocide — Gilbert's works always retain a spirit of hope, a faith in humanity's ability to survive, and even overcome, the depths of radical evil.

Instead, liberation theologies have arisen as intellectual and religious responses to very concrete struggles for justice and love on the part of those committed to overcoming the dehumanizations and depersonalizations resulting from classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio told congregants of a Harlem church today that though the nation and city have a history of racism to overcome, progress has been made and hope must not be abandoned.

Those communities have to lean more heavily on taxpayers programs when seeking success in an effort to overcome a legacy of institutional racism that has hindered the progress of its residents.

De Blasio urged New Yorkers to not abandon hope as the nation and city work to overcome a history of racism.

«This is the story of a trailblazer who had to overcome sexism, racism, and mental illness to pursue her dream of being an artist.»

Initially assigned to the Dodgers» minor league team in Montreal, Jackie (Chadwick Boseman) must overcome immense racism from both the fans and his teammates, much to the concern of his wife Rachel (Nicole Beharie) and black sports journalist Wendell Smith (Andre Holland), who's aware that there's much more at stake than Jackie realizes.

While the story of the immigrant family and the somewhat intolerant climate to outsiders might suggest a serious political film, Hallstrom's treatment is rather benign, and accentuates more in terms of positive relations and the ability to overcome ones prejudices instead of dwelling in the ugliness of racism and chauvinism.

Kusama - Infinity / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Heather Lenz, Producers: Karen Johnson, Heather Lenz, Dan Braun, David Koh)-- Now one of the world's most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage.

We are reminded throughout the film of the ongoing racism in our culture that these young men struggle to overcome.

Global citizenship, in the perspective of those who want a fair peaceful sustainable world implies to demonstrate, through actions, that one has learned to live together and to cooperate local and globally, aiming to overcome violence, racism and social economic environmental injustice.

To overcome educational racism, New York State must provide equity by fully funding schools.

is the historical tale of one man's desire to use his art as activism to overcome the systemic racism that has hindered his people, and his nation, for generations.

«Mustang Miracle,» originally self - published through ASI's AuthorHouse imprint, chronicles the journey of five young Mexican Americans who, through the game of golf, overcome the challenges of racism and poverty in 1950s Texas.

This timely story gives readers an unflinching look at the problem of racism, both past and present, while simultaneously offering the hope of overcoming that hatred.

Wallace overcame tremendous obstacles and all forms of racism to succeed in life.

Raj Anand led the votes among the Human Rights, Advocacy and Criminal winners, likely due to his ground - breaking work to overcome systemic racism in the profession.

Whether The Law Society's new proposed high - profile proactive approach is the best way in which to try to overcome, once and for all, any residual racism in today's Ontario legal profession, is a question of policy, on which reasonable members of the profession may differ, even as they all agree that any such residual racism must be overcome.

The writer argues in his letter that (i) the evidence does not support the conclusion that there is systemic racism in the legal professions, (ii) the claim of systemic racism vilifies lawyers and paralegals by labelling them as racist, (iii) the 13 recommendations are a form of unauthorized social engineering, (iv) racism and bullying are just part of life and should be simply be endured and overcome by racialized licensees as others have done before them, (v) the true problem is economic class not race, (vi) white privilege is a ridiculous concept as it relates to white and racialized lawyers and (vii) racialized lawyers who join legal associations based on race or ethnic origin can not complain that they are not treated equally.

If you or someone you know is experiencing or have been a victim of racism, our face to face and online counselling might help you overcome the issue and find tailored solutions for moving forward.

The rationale for such measures is that «historical patterns of racism entrench disadvantage and more than the prohibition of racial discrimination is required to overcome the resulting racial inequality».181 Special measures are time limited, in that they can only be justified for so long as there is a situation of inequality which they are aimed at redressing.