Sentences with phrase «racial barriers by»

In 1937, Edmondson succeeded in breaking racial barriers by becoming the first African American artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Their mission is to reduce racial inequities in breastfeeding support for African Americans by building foundational networks of support and strengthening systems to overcome historical, societal and social barriers to breastfeeding success.

One of the most memorable examples occurs early on, as the mute heroine (played by Sally Hawkins) watches Shirley Temple dance up the stairs with Bill «Bojangles» Robinson in 1935's «The Little Colonel,» a sequence that broke through the racial barriers of the period.

Kleber Mendonça Filho's Recife is connected not by spatial geography, but by the way sounds bleed together in an urban environment, trumping class and racial barriers.

«In a recent Runnymede Trust report commissioned by the NUT, called Visible and Invisible Barriers, Black, Asian and ethnic minority members reported structural barriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the proBarriers, Black, Asian and ethnic minority members reported structural barriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the probarriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the profession.

The bill will encourage school districts to work in coordination to break down barriers that sustain racial and socioeconomic isolation by creating interdistrict or regional magnet programs.

We place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, and cultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education.

Schools must still conduct an evaluation of the «content and effectiveness» of a parent and family engagement policy and still identify «barriers to greater participation by parents in activities authorized by this section (with particular attention to parents who are economically disadvantaged, are disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background).»

By bringing pivotal works to diverse communities, The Art Production Fund hopes to reach wide audiences and reduce the physical as well as the psychic distance of cultural, class, linguistic, racial and income barriers that hinder participation in contemporary art.