Sentences with phrase «racial divide in»

Widespread attention has surrounded this trial and the verdict reveals a deep racial divide in Saskatchewan.

They describe the purchase as an act of art but also of politics, a gratifying chance to respond to what they see as a deepening racial divide in America, when Simone's fiery example of culture warrior seems more potent than ever.

At 2 p.m. on Saturday, YA author Margaret McMullan will read from her latest book, Sources of Light, a story of a teen girl grappling with the racial divide in 1960s Mississippi.

«Due to the clear racial divide in Dayton, the proposed school closing will disproportionally hurt Black students and families,» noted an RJN!

The movie's all about a young black guy who heads off with his white girlfriend to meet her oh - so - progressive family, and realizes that something is very wrong with the racial divide in this sleepy little town.

It's a timeless premise: parallel families living parallel lives from across the racial divide in pre-Civil Rights America.

Loving is a handsomely crafted drama about two mild - mannered, yet courageous souls from opposite sides of the racial divide in late 1950s Virginia, who followed their hearts in strict defiance of the Racial Integrity Act, which criminalized interracial marriages in the state.

Correctly, Seidl understands that his commentary is rather unnecessary, that the power of the work comes from the very ordinariness of the couples and families participating, the racial divide in the work involved in this industry, and his unflinching capturing of events we know occur but usually repress.

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 racial divide in Albany is no less than in most other traditional cities, yet there is a tolerance planted here, perhaps from the diversity associated with Dutch settlement in the 1600s.

The speaker shied away from commenting on the racial divide in the Senate Democratic conference, which was making headlines prior to the Charlottesville riot.

A new Quinnipiac poll highlights the racial divide in the stop and frisk debate with blacks opposing the policy, while a majority of whites and hispanics support it.

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

@J: I'm sorry about the racial divide in your town.

If they spent 1/10 the time, money and attention to unwed mothers, poor families, and the racial divide in adoptions (everyone wants a white baby, no one wants ethnic babies, ethnic toddlers, or white or ethnic teenagers), then maybe women would be less scared about having problem / unwanted pregnancies.

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.

Preaching from Amos 5:18 - 27, Platt stated that the churches ``... have historically widened and are currently widening the racial divide in our country.»

We talked by phone about why diversity matters, what it means to be a good corporate citizen and whether the President has done enough on the racial divide in America.

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

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

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

But it is also part of a social history of continuing class and racial divides in Brazil.

Not exact matches

As long as we preach racial tolerance we will get nowhere in remedying the racial divide we have in our churches and in our nation.

I predict millennials in particular will continue to drop out of religious life, and the ethnic divides within American Christianity, which many sought to heal with a quick - fix approach to «racial reconciliation» that bypassed repentance and justice, will only widen.

King thus confronted the most critical task any leader faces when seeking to promote racial harmony: assuring the «good people» on each side of the racial divide that their counterparts on the other side do, in fact, exist.

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.»

Christianity in America is very much divided on racial lines.

But one wonders if the truly impressive witness would be a movement that, despite its serious political differences (as well as racial and ethnic divides), still worships and prays together, and warmly calls each other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Political, social, racial and sexual issues have always divided the public, and Christians as participants in culture have habitually chosen sides.

Who has a vested interest in the racial divide of modern politics?

Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

Answer hinges largely on race A survey released Thursday shows striking racial and religious divides over the role of religion in presidential politics.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

I can only speak from life experience in bridging the racial divide.

Historically, the greatest divide in American society has been the racial divide.

Turning unaccountable citizens into immigration officers can only lead to racial profiling, discrimination and alienation, raising tensions in already divided communities.

In fact, the immoral shortcuts such as police racial profiling will have the opposite affects, which if not corrected create a generational divide between the police and certain communities.

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...

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

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.»

«Christine Quinn [a top Democratic rival] carried the east side of Manhattan in the primary, Joe Lhota [Mr. de Blasio's Republican rival in the general election] did unusually well in the Trump Towers part of the West Side, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.»

Top issues for voters are «the racial divide» in the city as well as the economy, education and crime, he added.

But simply trying to hire the best teachers regardless of their race ignores the racial schisms that have led to the sharp divide in these districts.

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.

We know racial justice is a worker issue, that racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.

But he added, «the racial divide, which has bedeviled Mayor de Blasio since his first day in office, continues even as he finished his first term.»

Both Rangel and Thomas are people who can cross the racial divide, even if you disagree with what they are saying, because they say it in a way that reminds of friends and family.

Open racial dating is something that needs to be supported in current times of global unrest as combining traditions sets the scene to better understand divided races.

The UK is becoming a racial melting pot with a surge in the number of relationships and marriages across ethnic dividing lines in the last decade, according to official figures.But while the number of people from black, Asian and mixed - race backgrounds settling down with someone from another group have all risen, white people remain by far the most segregated on the domestic front.

This isn't just a fictional conceit; we live in a world where the rich and powerful use the media to keep the poor and underclass at each others» throats, divided by false racial lines or cultural boundaries.