Sentences with phrase «predominantly black boards»
Despite persistent doubts about the financial capacities of predominantly black boards, the Studio Museum has succeeded in raising 70 percent of the money for its building project, cementing the institution's stature as a model of how to develop racially diverse trustees, staff members and audiences.
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Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»
St. Louis's desegregation case dates from 1972, when Minnie Liddell, a black parent, filed suit against the St. Louis school board contending that her children were receiving an inferior education in a predominantly black city school.
This powerful debut novel about a 14 - year - old black boy who leaves the rough streets of East Cleveland for a predominantly white boarding school in Maine offers an unflinchingly honest look at race relations.