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Andrea Bowers ANDREW KREPS When Hillary Clinton recently described the barriers to racial equality as «intersectional,» the leftist journal Jacobin tweeted a wry salute to whichever Ph.D....

The Reporter was founded in 1972 by John A. McDermott to measure Chicago's progress toward racial equality as the civil rights era ended.

Nearly six decades after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education court case established racial equality as a core commitment of American schools, the decision still shapes the way we think about the concept of equal opportunity in many diverse arenas.

There has been a backwards step in racial equality as a result of the impact of four years of Coalition Government policies, the General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» Union in the UK, has warned.

Not exact matches

Female employees, as well as those from different racial and ethnic groups, are also speaking up, sharing workplace injustices, and demanding equality.

That most Americans have not felt it as tyranny stems from the fact that most of us agree with the goals of racial equality.

But fortunately your kind are losing the battle just as surely as you did over racial and gender equality.

mo.se.xual verses in Scripture (as their are for racial equality), then there might be a hope to see that happen.

Moody's racial woes, as told by these students and faculty members, are about a historically conservative Bible college struggling to embrace equality and pluralism.

It has provided grounds for the recognition of racial equality — a recognition of the dignity of human nature as such — but it has done much more, and indeed, much less.

Even as new evidence reveals the extent to which the American Communist Party officially used its apparatus to recruit agents for Soviet espionage, communism's apologists respond that they meant no harm, that the gallant Soviet ally needed all the help it could get, and that, after all, the Communists supported racial equality and workers» rights.

While the nations on the Continent had their revolutions and, for good or evil, fought over ideas — whether it be the divine right of kings, liberty, equality, and fraternity, scientific socialism, or racial superiority — we were, as Napoleon and others have said, a nation of shopkeepers.

He was to become recognized as a perceptive observer of the racial developments of the 1960s, a time when Martin Luther King's patient march toward equality began to give way to more violent methods of direct confrontation.

That racial equality has a direct bearing on world peace is evident to anyone who views the world scene as a whole, though it is often forgotten in the local setting.

In the third phase, which came to full flower in the decades following the New Deal revolution, an altogether new conception of the Constitution emerged, which broadened the reform agenda to include, inter alia, eviscerating more or less completely the Tenth Amendment, eliminating religion from the public square, energetically pursuing racial and sexual equality, and, more recently, legitimizing moral autonomy as the default standard for individual behavior.

Silver then referenced Bill Russell, who was sitting in the front row, as someone who has led the charge in the NBA even in decades past to promote social and racial equality.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

That investigation will run at the same time as an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry into UK Border Agency (UKBA) spot - checks at British tube stations, after fears were raised that officers were using racial profiling to select who to speak to about their immigration status.

... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

The night was full of politically charged speeches championing for gender as well as racial equality.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.

He soon emerges as its very charismatic, spiritual leader, founding the Free State of Jones on a quartet of core principles promoting racial equality.

Issues raised by the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education case — such as racial equality, integration, and quality education — are still alive and being debated today, said panelists at the recent Askwith Forum, «In Brown's Wake.»

Peter Norman may be in the record books as an Olympic silver medallist, but his support of the protest against racial equality by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two black Americans sharing a podium with him, was arguably much more significant.

As a follow - up to # 1 above is diversity, and we are not talking about racial equality, although that playing field certainly gets leveled on live streaming platforms.

As scholars Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips write, «Reducing the black - white test score gap would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.»

But I trust that as a democrat, the party that stands for racial justice and equality of opportunity, he will see that the right question is whether a public school is successful and equally available to all, not how it came into being.

A billionaire snatch and grab passed off as a push for racial equality, the destruction of public education... passed off as a civil rights issue.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

In the past year, our culture has dealt with continuous turmoil, mass shootings, increasingly disturbing accounts of gross sexual misconduct, threats to the rights of immigrants, reproductive rights, transgender rights, threats against our rights to health care, against gender and racial equality, against the protection of our environment, of internet neutrality, as well as attacks against Planned Parenthood, the EPA, the NEA and global organizations such as UNESCO.

But just as the presence of a black president in the White House hasn't ushered in an era of racial comity in America, Obama's cameo in the Biennial doesn't mean that the art world is a place of utopian equality.

On display are documents of the organizing and shaping of the transformative fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s, as captured by the unblinking eye of surveillance.

Peaceful grassroots protests for racial equality were met with police violence, as when, in April, high pressure hoses and dogs were turned on students in Birmingham, Alabama.

While their identity as black Americans is not the motivation for their inclusion in the show, this identity is nonetheless significant in that many found themselves marginalized in a white - dominated art world that granted limited admission to black artists and again within the Black Arts movement, which rested on a revolutionary ethos that saw abstraction as a site of established privilege, limited in its ability to express political dissent and contribute to the struggle for racial equality.

An outspoken Marxist dedicated to social reform and racial equality, Perkins saw abstraction as inherently elitist and firmly believed that through familiar forms, art could most effectively convey authentic political and social ideas.

Organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the institution's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the project took on a particular urgency as heated discussions about gender and racial equality in the U.S. roiled through this year's election season.

After three decades as masked crusaders for gender and racial equality in the art world — and increasingly, everywhere else — the Guerrilla Girls have lately been enjoying a victory lap.

What it means is that climate is not isolated from other issues such as gender equality or economic and racial justice, because causality runs both ways: those who are oppressed in other ways are precisely those who are vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, and precisely those who are least responsible for its occurrence.

But what stands out to me as Braithwaite's greatest legacy was his work to promote and achieve racial equality.

As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?

As the concept of equality as guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (s. 15) and in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (s. 10) has evolved over the last two decades, our work in protecting and promoting racial equality has also adapted to new legal, social and cultural realitieAs the concept of equality as guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (s. 15) and in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (s. 10) has evolved over the last two decades, our work in protecting and promoting racial equality has also adapted to new legal, social and cultural realitieas guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (s. 15) and in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (s. 10) has evolved over the last two decades, our work in protecting and promoting racial equality has also adapted to new legal, social and cultural realities.

Lerners LLP is committed to promoting throughout the firm diversity, equality, and inclusion regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, or socio - economic background, age, disability, family status, and other differences, as well as the intersection of multiple differences.

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Many others on the other hand were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it instead as a sign of disrespect for the country, the flag, the military, and the police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the national anthem.

Many were outraged by Kaepernick's stance and saw it as a sign of disrespect for the country, flag, military, and police, where others applauded the movement, including fellow NFL players who supported Kaepernick's gesture of racial equality by also taking a knee in solidarity during the National Anthem.

It is now 2018 and we have not moved the dial as much as I thought we would have by now on the issue of racial equality.

A relationship of racial equality is not one in which Indigenous people take their place, as just another interest group, among a vast range of non-Indigenous interest groups that might be affected by native title or other Indigenous issues.