Sentences with phrase «racial divide»

In addition to making students more competitive in the global job market, the curriculum changes will address a significant racial divide in achievement, he said.

Despite some progress being made across racial divides, Latino, African American and Native American groups still suffer more than other ethnic groups.

It is not just creepy, but it finds a groove of unique honesty, about racial divides and how it can create an uneasy feeling for both parties involved.

Any such contest in solid Labour territory with such a clear racial divide will involve race cards being played.

Here is one strong root of recent attempts to heal the ugly racial divide in this country's churches.

The results showed a continued racial divide — in ninth grade language arts, about 90 percent of white students are in honors, compared to less than 50 percent of black students.

Hostiles is an occasionally shocking, sometimes disturbing, but ultimately hopeful perspective of how the deepest of racial divides can sometimes be bridged by the simplest of actions: taking the time to relate to the other person as a fellow human being rather than as a symbol of hatred.

When they reviewed data on 1 million children ages 10 and younger, the authors found a deep racial divide in diagnosis rates of strabismus.

The Washington Post New charter schools debate: Are they widening racial divides in public education?

Look at the front page... this a huge racial divide in America?

How I answered the question would prove crucial to addressing racial divides in our D.C. neighborhood.

Soledad O'Brien seems to be looking for racial divides in thsi country.

Handyre This whole racial divide issue swings back and forth.

Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.

A shrinking middle class, widening income gap, and deepening racial divide further limits social mobility and middle class opportunity for all people - especially the unemployed, underemployed and those trapped in high poverty neighborhoods in cities and in suburbs.

In a news conference following his appointment, Ogilvie cited the need to «bring the temperature down» on the board, which has, at times, been the setting of a very public racial divide.

However this year the movies seemed to reflect our troubled times right back at us - from racial divides in Zootopia to global communication breakdowns in Arrival.

This summer, the New York Times concluded a lengthy series on the perceptions of race among Americans by saying: «The series has portrayed a stubbornly enduring racial divide, and the poll suggested that even as the rawest forms of bigotry have receded they have often been replaced by remoteness and distrust in places of work, learning and worship.»

Therein lies the problem and why America has so many racial divides.

The number of stop and searches carried out under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has also continued to rise with a marked racial divide.

The same Quinnipiac poll that found the mayor's approval at a low point earlier this month showed what The Times dubbed a «stark racial divide,» with 64 % of African - American voters saying they approve of his performance.

However, a deep racial divide underscores both de Blasio's approval rating and questions pertaining to the general condition of New York City.

A new poll has Scott Stringer jumping to a seven - point lead over Eliot Spitzer in the race for city comptroller, after a glaring racial divide had both candidates campaigning furiously...

Therefore, to produce such a message in this environment seems to ignore our current situation at best, or to purposively invoke an image like this to further stoke racial divides and fears.»

There was a sharp racial divide, with Mr. Stringer winning about two - thirds of white voters, and Mr. Spitzer winning about two thirds of black voters.

But there's a large racial divide, with 53 % of black voters saying Weiner should remain in the race, and 64 % of white voters saying it's time for him to hang it up.

A startling racial divide for Mr. de Blasio persists.

Those endorsements have angered a segment of the public, and for some have emphasized racial divides in the city.

Now free to speak the truth, Bulworth dives headlong into the smoldering racial divide where he finds the medium for his message — rap lyrics.

This is a key element he explored in the film, with African characters from the fictional country of Wakanda, which has never been colonized or even had any trade relationships with western countries, and African - American characters, who reflect the stress of living in a country still confronting racial divides.

Charged sequences such as when Juliette Binoche's character is bordered up in a vacant apartment (a wink to the manipulation brought across in Funny Games), or when she is threatened on the subway (Haneke embarks on a long quest in this film to express our futile attempts of being morally well adjusted folks despite the obvious racial divide / discrimination) are just the tip of the iceberg in my second viewing, already looking forward to what a third and fourth viewing will do.

Masterfully addressing the American racial divide, past and present, director Raoul Peck's six - years - in - the - making documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, is a galvanizing, ominous film, thrumming with a sense of history repeating itself.

I honestly think that's why so many people across all kinds of cultures and racial divides identify with this movie because they either remember a coach that did something for them that impacted their life in a positive way or are coaches doing that very thing.

Here we have a true story of how a leader used an athletic competition to help ease racial divides and unite a country,... Continue reading

Instead of exploring the full complexity of this issue, reformers chose to wedge it inside a familiar racial divide.

These tragedies come amidst deep, longstanding racial divides and on the heels of the deaths of other African Americans at the hands of police or in police custody.

Hobart is just another example of how economic and racial divides affect tens of millions of people in the United States.

Set in 1964 in South Carolina, a place and time of seething racial divides, violence explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten.

Brash and unflinching, Lightning Men transcends typical genre stories by highlighting the real - life racial divide of 1950s Atlanta that is rarely discussed, but should never be forgotten.

Surprisingly, there's a slight racial divide when it comes to who's more prone to glossophobia.

While Americans in general are suffering from the burden of massive student loan debt, a report by Bloomberg published today shows that there is a definitive racial divide in the amount of debt that borrowers are taking out.

seemingly promotes independence for middle - class white women in the 1940s, We Are On Our Way reflects on a post-Civil rights moment, with mothers bringing their children together across a metaphorical racial divide that is also visually delineated in an aisle.

Sadie's use of language — seen in earlier work shown while she was an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015 — as representative of America's racial divide belongs to a tradition of art that is typified by artists like Glenn Ligon, Sam Durant, and Sadie's mentor, Charles Gaines.

LGBT people are not necessarily as easily identified as blacks or Native Americans, and because LGBT occurs across racial divides (and because so many LGBT individuals already are professionals, artists, actors, whatever), it's more difficult for white supremacist types to make the same arguments about them.

At 11:30 a.m., members of the clergy and NYC Deserves Better join forces to «address the national crisis of racial divide and the comprehensive unrest as a result of the failed leadership in our city,» Mount Neboh Baptist Church, 1883 Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

com (via The Washington Post) Are Louisiana charter schools widening racial divides?

There's a huge racial divide in football — while 13.3 percent of the country's population is black, 70 percent of professional football players are.