Sentences with phrase «protest racial injustice»

It might be directly to protest racial injustice, racism, or police brutality.

While many people may celebrate students» choices to protest racial injustice, others will disagree with students who take a knee, viewing the students» choice as disrespectful.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's also the Christian thing to do.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Eric Reid not only believes that kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is the right thing for some players to do — but it's...

Human beings can do amazing things — like peacefully protest a racial injustice — but they always seem to leave a reminder that they are not perfect.

«It seems so timely right now as we have these conversations about the football players kneeling during the anthem at the NFL games, led by Colin Kaepernick and the controversy that's arisen around it,» he says, referencing the demonstrations by dozens of NFL players protesting racial injustice and police brutality.

Soon afterwards, players around the league wore T - shirts protesting racial injustice, something that the WNBA fined them for.

Forget the «X-Files»: Gillian Anderson, one - time «world's sexiest woman», is about to tackle Ibsen in a new West End production Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny took a knee in support of NFL players and others protesting racial injustice, captioning the photo of her and her

«I think [kneeling] is a beautiful way of protesting the racial injustice,» says the «Breaking Bad» star

Responding to the controversy surrounding NFL players protesting racial injustice during the national anthem, Galerie Lelong put together a group exhibition of eight contemporary artists who, through various mediums, explore race and inequality in a political system that is becoming increasingly polarized.

Not exact matches

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick originated the gesture as a protest against racial injustice; as #TakeAKnee has spread that message has been somewhat lost amidst the resulting recrimination.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

The protests were started by (now - free agent) quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness about racial injustice and to protest police brutality.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49er's quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

On August 26, before a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, the 49ers» quarterback sat down during the national anthem in protest against racial injustices in America.

NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick made a lot of news last season when he protested police violence and racial injustice by sitting during the National Anthem before games.

Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

The messaging galvanized many owners to kneel or stand elbows locked with their players against a common enemy: The President of the United States, and not racial injustice, the thing that kneeling was initially supposed to protest against.

The decision caused a split in the Jenkins - led Players Coalition, which had seemed for much of the season like a unified bloc of a few dozen players committed to pressuring the NFL into maintaining players» ability to protest and helping to combat police brutality and racial injustice.

In wake of the on - field protests that swept the NFL, when players knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, the NBA released a memo to teams that recommended ways to support community activism while reminding them of a league rule that enforced players standing during the anthem.

Dr. King was in Memphis to lead a march protesting the working conditions and low wages of the city's sanitation workers, and in his final speech, he spoke of how racial and economic injustice are inextricably linked.

«Detroit» details a five - day uprising in 1967 in protest of racial injustices, which resulted in hundreds of injuries and 43 deaths, and began with a police raid of an after - hours nightclub.