Sentences with phrase «people of color face»

For example, LGBTQ people of color face particularly high rates of discrimination from medical providers, and systemic harassment.

Many people of color face greater obstacles to obtaining, and benefiting from, sexual and reproductive health care services.

Weems pointed out the disparities in the art world (in terms of exhibition opportunities, publishing catalogs and auction prices) and challenges women and people of color face.

Founded in 1995 by Joseph «Rev. Run» Simons of the legendary hip - hop group Run - DMC, along with media mogul Russel Simmons and visual artist / community builder Danny Simmons, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation began with the goal of filling the gap that «disenfranchised and people of color face in both accessing the arts and exhibition opportunities.»

I would love to see the online dating world find a way to work with the biases and microaggressions that people of color face.

While there are people of color who are racist, there are for more incidents that people of color face EVERY DAY.

Not exact matches

Fifty - four percent of those women are people of color, who face their own pay gap.

When looking at Uber's nearly 6,000 U.S. employees, Uber faces an uphill battle trying to diversify a homogeneous workplace, where people of color tend to hold the jobs at the lowest rungs and are shut out of more lucrative and respected jobs in technology or leadership.

«Demographic shifts for entrepreneurship and funding are taking place now, however, we're still faced with the daunting statistic that nearly 90 % of venture capital is given to someone who isn't a women or a person of color.»

This is especially important for people of color and / or immigrants, who often face greater risk in such scenarios.

Specifically, with respect to racial equity — which is what Encompass focuses on — it's important for organizations to recognize that advocates of color face unique pressures in our movement in part because there are so few of us and because the people we work with often don't understand the nuances of the challenges we face.

A round - faced toddler with wheat - colored hair bounded onto the stage and smiled happily at an audience of about seventy - five people.

On the entire face of the earth there is only one author who correctly wrote about the life of Jesus, his ancestry, his intermingling with other people of his era, and the color of his skin.

The Cowboys have yet to have a player kneel during the anthem since Kaepernick started protesting police brutality, inequality, and the oppression that people of color in the United States face in 2016.

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.

His donations are under scrutiny now as he faces criticism for writing in a since - deleted Facebook post that Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins has done more to harm people of color than anyone who has worn a hood — an allusion to the Ku Klux Klan.

While several new faces in city government will help increase racial diversity, McLaughlin said that doesn't mean issues for people of color will be focused topics.

Two months to the day before Dan Loeb accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of doing more harm to people of color than the KKK, the billionaire hedge fund manager was scolding Richard Buery, one of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's most senior black officials, about his apparent ignorance of the obstacles faced by black children in the city.

Brooklyn borough president (and former police officer) Eric Adams got involved on Tuesday, saying, «If they would do that to him in his postal uniform, they would do it to any person of color in that community,» and noted that the cops may face federal violations for leaving Grays's mail truck unsecured.

«The face of Albany has changed dramatically with people of color approaching 50 % and women topping at 25 % of the legislature,» she wrote.

This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ young persons of color.

«By choosing policies that shield against the very real dangers facing low - income neighborhoods and people of color,» Pastor said, «we will insure that climate policy will be effective for all of us.»

During one of my night classes, I experienced a problem that many people of color have to face.

Some of the study's subjects viewed photos of the transformation of the monkeys» faces as a human or primate would see them while others saw pictures as a color - blind person would and others as a camera would.

When that face is also shouting political statements we disagree with, our dislike of the person seems to color our perception of his or her political opinions as well, Mutz observes.

He felt bottled up in Lubbock, he says, and is drawn to places like India, where you step out of a taxicab to face cows and crowds and people of many colors speaking strange languages: «It's incredible, and it's overwhelming.

People who study face perception have been arguing that when we meet new people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin People who study face perception have been arguing that when we meet new people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin people, all we are learning about their faces are so - called static features that don't change, like the shape and size of their face and skin color.

Anthropologist Nina Jablonski, profiled by Ann Gibbons (p. 934), studies the evolution of skin color and has found that a surprising number of people face health consequences from having a skin tone poorly adapted to their current environment.

Special Report: Pollution, Poverty, People of Color Communities across the US face environmental injustices

The researchers are able to achieve a high level of compression through what they call «skin mapping» algorithms that can analyze pixel color to distinguish a person's face and hands in an image.

I'm just one of those people that needs some color on my face or it looks flat.

Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with traditional fall colors and I still love them too (because let's face it, that's the way God made it;) but I'm seeing a lot of people step out of the box with their fall decor this year and I'm absolutely loving it!!

I sometimes wear a cream that gives some «a bit of bronze» color to my face, cause I am very white too (to the point that if I am wearing a skirt without tights, people think I am wearing white tights — and here it's considered «bad», but I was very happy to be able to wear no tights in Europe, where it's so normal to be pale white like me!

If you are facing difficulties in being accepted as a couple and feel uncomfortable with your partner as people challenge you over something ridiculous as the color of your partner's skin, you should follow few things that help you in maintaining relationships.

It eventually turns into a powerful document of the prejudice and battles LGBTQ people of color still face every day.

He sees the colors of the world and the stories written on people's faces.

When Universal produced a color biopic of the elder Chaney called Man of a Thousand Faces (1956), the final scene showed the dying actor (in the unlikely person of James Cagney) calling for his fabled makeup box and using a stick of greasepaint to scrawl «Jr.» on it under his own name.

In the face of the overwhelming backlash against the Oscars snubbing any acting nominees who are people of color, the timing and need for recognition by the NAACP couldn't be more crucial.

But more than this, in his eyes through the course of the movie, we see the horror of a hope that completely dwindles and fades to nothing, until it matches the faces of the other lifelong enslaved people whose only separation between those who enslave them comes from geography and skin color.

is how its presentation of a thief as an altar boy flies in the face of Dr. Martin Luther King's appeal that black people be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

From birth, many of students of color are faced with the reality that they have fewer opportunities to excel and also with people believing they can't achieve, she said.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

So at every school meeting, I could only think about how our curriculum and policies ultimately connected to the struggles our students — and I — had faced as people of color.

Connecticut faces a representation crisis in classrooms, with fewer than 10 percent of educators identifying as people of color while 45 percent of their students are children of color across the state.

Other community school initiatives also have taken up the call of My Brother's Keeper — to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color so all young people can reach their full potential.

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I have a specific audience in mind — people who care deeply about racial justice but who, for any number of reasons, do not yet appreciate the magnitude faced by communities of color as a result of mass incarceration... (and) those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives... but who have lacked the facts and data to back up their claims.

and add to your reading list books like The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein, Evicted by Matthew Desmond or Between the World and Me by Ta - Nehisi Coates to obtain a historical perspective on why your community is structured the way it is today and what systemic challenges people continue to face.

Not only is it a slap in the face to go from gorgeous 32 bit graphics from MM8 or even the decent 16 bit visuals for MMB to the cruddy 8 bit style, but they don't even bother to base it off the colorful, more dynamic levels from Mega Man 6 that really showed that the NES could still do impressive colors, instead going for Mega Man 2 of all things due to people's nostalgia.

- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan