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January's DPI report would seem to confirm parts of a key 2015 study co-authored by Helen Ladd, a Duke University professor of public policy, who detailed growing racial divisions in North Carolina's charter sector.

No film moved the conversation this year more than Peele's unsettling directorial debut «Get Out,» which examined racial divisions in America.

«Continued research is necessary to determine if and how congregations are capable of helping solve longstanding racial divisions in society.»

Both races exposed deep political and racial divisions in the district, which extends from Harlem north through Washington Heights up into Norwood and Bedford Park in the Bronx.

And the governor said his father had shown a serious concern in the days before he died over the racial divisions in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city's police department have clashed over police tactics.

It seems inexcusable that Herberg did not really acknowledge the deepening racial divisions in American society.

The Tories played the politics of racial division in 1964.

Moving on, I was unnecessarily braced for controversy as I approached the one - room special installation of 14 works curated by the artist Rashid Johnson, whose own work hews closely to debates about the painfully ineradicable racial division in the country.

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Despite the many failures of white - majority churches to take action in this area, the gospel has tremendous resources for seeking justice and peace across racial divisions.

I also believe that our failure to do this has bred deep divisions within the church and has led to Christianity playing a paramount role in legitimating and exacerbating racial injustice from our nation's origin — colonizing Native Americans, enslaving Diasporic Africans — to our present - day crises of immigration and mass incarceration.

The American church, plagued by its own racial divisions, offers little in the way of healing and hope.

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

Racial divisions remain not only on Sunday mornings but also in how we see one another, how we vote, and how / whether we care for one another.

The repugnance to racial intermarriage in a race - conscious society is a consequence of existing social divisions, which impose severe penalties upon persons who fail to respect them.

Christians can not claim to be working for justice in our communities if we contribute to segregation and the racial or ethnic division of those communities.

Busing wasted money that would have been better spent in classrooms; it created unnecessary racial and class divisions; and, after all that, it wound up failing anyway.

The American Resistance is as exquisitely multiracial as a television commercial, although it beggars the imagination (and distorts Dick's) to think that American blacks and whites would have been on good enough terms to form such a resistance in an America subservient to the Nazi and Japanese avatars of racial division and hierarchy.

But whether such an appointment will do much to overcome the racial division that exists in the city and across the UK remains to be seen.

It remains an unsettled question, however, whether deep racial divisions can be transcended in this way.

If there was a grand division of leadership in the church's mission as between Paul and Peter, was the division defined on racial or geographical lines?

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Trump's surprise rise to become the GOP presidential nominee, built largely on a willingness to openly criticize minority groups and tap into long - simmering racial divisions, has reenergized white supremacist groups and drawn them into mainstream American politics like nothing seen in decades.

Since racial division is the most important cleavage in American politics, overlaying and deepening the ideological and Republican - Democrat partisan dichotomy, we can expect much more action around the persistence of racial inequality in America.

2/06/17 --» Marijuana Arrests in City Increase, with large racial disparities» — Politico's Brendan Cheney: «The New York Police Department arrested 18,136 people for marijuana possession in 2016, a 9 percent increase from 2015, according to data provided by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

The education commissioner issued the decision in a week where racial divisions have been highlighted in the U.S..

A Democratic insider referred to Sampson as the «reluctant leader,» suggesting he was pushed into the position he currently holds — one that I think most would agree is quite difficult and tantamount to herding cats, given all the racial, ideological and geographical divisions in the Democratic conference.

The Wall Street Journal noted this here - we - go - again tactic in an October 26, 2014 editorial titled: «The 2014 Race Card: Democratic appeals to racial division are worse than ever.»

The racial and ethnic divisions that played to Alcantara's advantage in a crowded Democratic primary could be her undoing.

But these findings are stark and a timely reminder of the racially segregating effects of religious schools, the division of communities that ensues, and that an expansion of such «faith» schools will only lead to racial segregation in state schools on a scale we have never seen before in this country.

Senate Democrats, after an embarrassingly dysfunctional two years in power and riven by bitter racial and philosophical divisions, lost control of the Legislature's upper house in 2010, prompting Klein to form the IDC.

This time around, Espaillat is going out of his way to downplay the racial and ethnic divisions inherent in the race, observers say.

In the wake of unrest over a grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo saiIn the wake of unrest over a grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo saiin the Eric Garner case and the murder of two police officers, Mario Cuomo, who had governed during the days of strife in Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo saiin Benonshurst and Howard Beach, had become concerned with division in the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo saiin the city along racial and class lines, Mr. Cuomo said.

Lev Dassin, the acting United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and Tony West, the assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, announced today that Westchester County has agreed to fund the building of 750 units of affordable housing in areas with low racial and ethnic diversity in order to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the United States under the False Claims Act as well as the Housing and Community Development Act.

A candidate must secure 76 Assembly votes, a majority, to become speaker, no easy task in a body riven by racial, geographical and ideological divisions.

«We would expect to see less disparity in hypertension rates across racial groups due to equal access to health care and equitable social and economic status; however, black, non-Hispanic service members remained disproportionately affected,» said Army Colonel William Corr, the deputy director of AFHSC's division of Epidemiology and Analysis.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

The study as a whole offered proof that multiracial ancestry is commonplace, even in a part of the country where racial divisions have historically been deep.

But the chief divisions in Dear White People aren't necessarily between the black students and the white ones: Teyonah Parris's Coco, who has little interest in racial politics (or so she thinks), merely hopes to become a reality TV star; striving for notoriety, she attacks Samantha on YouTube.

Rampling's character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it's Russia's time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power.

There were, as usual, movies about fractious racial divisions, including «Mudbound,» Dee Rees» symphonic, superbly acted drama about two Mississippi families — one white, one black — struggling to survive in the shadow of World War II.

The result is often dazzlingly singular — and gorgeous to boot — ushering racial inclusion in in such a casual and just manner that you almost forget many of the movie's underlying messages are rooted in division.

The movies, far more than the books, do not take expository steps to place Panem on Earth, much less the North American continent, meaning that a division by region that would create that racial makeup is not a factor in audience's minds.

To sustain engagement, I mentioned that Martin Luther King Jr., who paid the ultimate sacrifice for speaking out peacefully against hate and racial division, is the only historical figure other than Columbus honored with a national holiday in his name.

Recent events — a polarizing presidential election, incidents of racial and religious targeting, community violence, the sounding of once - fringe voices — have exposed ugly divisions in our country, as well as lingering stereotypes and entrenched biases.

Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.

Ali, R., & Pérez, T.E. Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, December 2011).

A fledgling education movement emerged in the 1960s to confront the largely racial divisions that existed across the country.

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

University of Pennsylvania professor and researcher Shaun Harper updated his «Black Male Student Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports» — the inaugural release occurred in 2012.

Questions being raised by Ireland's immigrant population and those who do not identify with Catholicism are undeniably important (and can certainly be paralleled to racial divisions here in the States).