Sentences with phrase «race riots»

In Detroit, where forty - three people died in race riots in 1967, the police already had five armored vehicles but were stockpiling tear gas and gas masks and were requesting antisniper rifles, carbines, shotguns, and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

The Armory Show, New York, 2012, installation view, left to right: In the Event of Race Riot II, Untitled (vitrine I) and Untitled (Plates)(all 2011).

For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings is an iconic example of Theaster Gates» groundbreaking, politically - engaged practice.

(1966) was inspired by a newspaper photo of Bull Connor, the police chief who instigated the Birmingham race riot of 1963, leading a group of white supremacists.

But her reasons for taking on the biographical drama of the 1967 Detroit race riots were always clear, allowing her to persist while wading through emotionally difficult terrain.

«I'm not sure rave reviews or buzzing awards talk are enough to express the amplitude of what director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal achieve in «Detroit,» a film about race riots from half a century ago.

In «Black Star Press: Black Star, Star Press Star» (2004), Walker combined nondigital collage processes to reference abstract painting: He smeared newspaper photos of the Birmingham race riots with melted chocolate and toothpaste, scanned them into a computer and made photographic prints from the results.

Culled from testimony given by six black youths during the Harlem Race Riot of 1964, Ligon's paintings create abstraction and rhythm using their words.

It is a fictionalized account of the historic Tulsa Race Riot in 1921.

I am begining to believe that CNN and other media will not be happy until there are race riots happening again!

Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to ever win an Oscar in the Best Director category) gives her all to capturing a critical incident from the urban race riots of the late 60s.

However, the message about race riots adds its own conflicting, anonymous voices, and the grammar suggests a jazz riff for art.

He is also working on a solo exhibition, «Warm Water,» about the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.

Yet Najib will struggle to live up to the ideal of racial harmony and the legacy of his father, who brought Malaysians together after race riots in 1969 nearly tore the nation apart.

Other successes included Race Riot (1964)($ 62.8 million) and White Marilyn (1962)($ 41 million), both by Andy Warhol.

Locals say the situation has improved in the decade which has passed since the Oldham race riots - and many give Woolas some of the credit for that.

Some will complain that we should not have to wait until race riots take place to challenge this type of piece.

In 2001, the town was the setting of Britain's worst race riots for more than a decade.

There was also a high vote for British National Party leader Nick Griffin in Oldham, in the wake of recent race riots in the town.

Suddenly she's caught up in the mystery of who the dead man was, why he was killed almost a century before, and how his death relates to a brutal race riot that wiped out the black Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood in 1921.

In 1907, the family moved to Washington D.C., partly due to the Atlanta race riots, but also because Washington had better education and employment opportunities for African Americans than most other cities at the time.

A parallel to Warhol's canonical 1964 painting Race Riot,» Walker's Black Star Press series comprises images of racial unrest that have been digitally... go to book page >>

«Sketch for an American Comic Opera with 20th century Race Riots,» 2012 (pastel and graphite on paper, 3 parts) via Sikkema Jenkins

They even included African American converts, inspired by a new faith and hardened by race riots half a world away.

When race riots tore through Newark in July 1967, the National Guard stormed into Quitman and evacuated all white staff members working in a summer kindergarten preparation program.

Johnson was heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915, a reign that included his knockout in 1910 of the so - called Great White Hope, former champion James J. Jeffries, which prompted race riots in dozens of U.S. cities.

Race riots continued in places like Watts, Calif., and Malcolm X was assassinated.

It was in 1969, the era of George Wallace and the Black Panther Party and campus race riots and the Richard Nixon «Southern Strategy.»

While we were deliberating on how to head off a bloody race riot a group of youngsters burst in on us and announced: «The State Police are shooting our people.»

The message from UKIP is that Corbyn Labour is unpatriotic, an enemy of the armed services and supportive of «uncontrolled mass immigration» — this in a town with a large Muslim population where bitter race riots took place in 2001.

There are repeated references to the many race riots and protests that took place across Britain in the eighties - with a sense of impending momentum as we approach «the march».

[32] Critics accused him, among other things, of «inflaming racial tensions» in an area that has already known race riots.

Recent memories of the 1965 Watts race riots keep tensions high between conservative whites and black characters, and the story occasionally looks about ready to veer into the territory of militant black power groups and gangs of well - armed white men hired by the LAPD to keep those groups down.

On the hottest day of the summer New Yorkers» similarly overheated tempers catalyse a full - scale race riot in Spike Lee's breakthrough film, still all too relevant today.

Stripped of its ambiguities, the plot plays like boomer magnetic poetry: a little race riots here, an anti-war bombing there, a dash of sexual liberation and voilà!

uuu On the eve of the 21st century, a former cop hustles an illegal entertainment device that pumps sensory impressions into the brain, and could provide clues to a murder that's threatening a massive race riot.

The long hot summer of 1967 would culminate in 159 race riots across the United States, with Detroit, Michigan home to one of the most brutal and notorious conflicts.

There were violent race riots in the 1960s.

In limited release the doc sequel An Inconvenient Truth (reviewed), Kathryn Bigelow's race riot drama Detroit, the Hasidic drama Menashe (reviewed), and Brigsby Bear all barely dipped their toe into theaters but audiences expressed interest in all four.

In a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, 60 years since the Notting Hill race riots and 90 years since women aged over 21 got the vote in the UK, here is a movie set in an east African country, albeit a fictitious one, which is the most technologically advanced in the world.

In 1972, when the United States was experiencing race riots, war protests, and campus violence, Harvard political scientist Edward C. Banfield penned an essay, «How Many, and Who, Should Be Set at Liberty?»

And most everybody knew something about the Liberty City Charter School, named after one of Miami's poorest neighborhoods and scene (in 1980) of the worst race riots since the 1960s.

Racial tensions were running high throughout the city as the black population was growing, and the ensuing race riot resulted in 34 deaths.

After chairing the school's first Commission on the Status of Women as a Kansas undergraduate, Paretsky worked as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side during the turbulent race riots of 1966.