Sentences with phrase «protesting racial inequality»
Another tweet from @BlackToLive appeared on CBS Sports in a story this August about Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who has been protesting racial inequality.
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Concerns about professional football players and whether they should be fired for silently protesting racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the Star - Spangled Banner by taking a knee.
After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.
He remained seated, then he began kneeling, to protest racial inequality, oppression, and police brutality.
Black and Rokita have tapped into an emotional and polarizing national argument that began when Kaepernick and other NFL players knelt during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police violence.
On the eve of another Sunday of professional football, Trump once again stoked the controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial inequality, proclaiming on Twitter that he wants them to stand.
Not exact matches
All eyes have been on NFL players who are protesting police brutality and racial inequality during the national anthem.
A look back at how he was raised helps explain why the 49ers quarterback is choosing to protest what he perceives are racial inequalities in America
That's not surprising after the ESPN article characterized most of the owners» concerns as squarely on business, ratings, and sponsorships, and seemed to show the group as dismissive of the concerns of racial inequality that prompted protests in the first place.
Buffalo News columnist Rod Watson wrote today that the protest has the potential to «be different from underwhelming rallies of the past... because the national focus on both income inequality and whether black lives really matter has underscored the economic dimensions of racial exclusion.»
2014 was replete with social unrest to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
What did the 1993 Whitney Biennial achieve, when we had, like, four white Artforum writers trying to explain racial inequality in Miami Basel during the Black Lives Matter protests?»
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.
They have since expanded their focus and methods of protest to racial and LGBT inequalities through their work with installations, billboard campaigns and work with Amnesty International.