Sentences with phrase «racial equality by»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

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 is ironic that the declaration of judicial supremacy made by the Warren Court came in the context of the Court's efforts to enforce a ruling in the cause of racial equality and civil rights.

In cases of racial discrimination by public agencies within the community, the Church must be willing to stand up and be counted on the side of equality.

Only 6 % of BME teachers feel schools and colleges do enough to promote racial equality, a conference organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

«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.

Whilst Harold Wilson and other moderate Labour leaders had their reforming instincts tempered by economic and political pressures, it was nonetheless Labour governments that legalised homosexuality, banned the death penalty and implemented major gender and racial equalities legislation.

«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.»

The Disability Rights Commission was replaced in October 2007 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is now responsible for the work of three former equality commissions: the Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Disability Rights Commission.

However, no one wants to see pity or grandstanding on equality in the middle of their dumb racial comedy anyway, so by trying to go the noble route in the end, both elements tend to cancel each other out.

Sparked by a handful of seemingly insignificant moments and events, the drive for civil rights and racial equality in the United States evolved into one of the most transformative, inspiring journeys ever undertaken.

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.»

Goodman's and Illich's thoughts about racial equality were tempered by their distrust of the bureaucracy.

Through My Eyes, by Ruby Bridges, is also a true story of the fight for racial equality in the United States.

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

In her own act of resistance, Walker's The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin showcases the artist's signature satire and sardonic imagery to directly address the history of oppression and injustice experienced by Black Americans in the South with the persistence of racial and gender stereotypes and ongoing efforts to advance equality in America.

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.

[ii] Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the artists of Spiral, including Bearden, Lewis, Alston, Ernest Crichlow, and Emma Amos, met regularly to discuss the role art would play in the struggle for racial equality.

In the work, Walker uses caustic, satirical imagery to reconcile the history of oppression and injustice experienced by African - Americans in the South with the persistence of racial and gender stereotypes and ongoing efforts to advance equality in America.

If at present American racial equality is fitfully advancing, race relations remain marred by retrograde episodes like the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and movements like the Tea Party, which signal a heavy national residue of racism.

For the past 60 years, Ringgold has fought tirelessly against the mainstream by promoting racial and gender equality in her practice.

At JACK SHAINMAN Hank Willis Thomas's archival tour de force, titled «Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915 - 2015,» presents 100 carefully culled print ads that trace the halting progress of feminism and — by omitting nonwhite women — the even more dispiriting state of racial equality in this country (513 West 20th Street, through May 23).

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.

What this means is that the government, in line with international human rights definitions, accepts that racial equality is not always achieved merely by treating individuals or groups of particular ethnic origin the same as those who do not originate from that background.

release an Agenda for Racial Equality to build greater understanding of the way that promoting equality, by both addressing racism and valuing our differences, can make us a stronger community

3 The High Court's interpretation of the standard of equality required by the RDA is based on the definition of discrimination in Article 1 (1) of ICERD which defines racial discrimination as:

In particular, the introduction of the confirmation provisions, which provided for the extinguishment or partial extinguishment of native title by the creation of non-native title tenures and classes of tenures, was criticised as a breach of the international and domestic law on racial equality.

The Native Title Report 1999 considers the principles upheld by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), namely equality and the requirement that the government negotiate with Indigenous people over native title legislation.

The special measure must be designed to improve the circumstances of a disadvantaged racial group by promoting equality of opportunity for that group.

(59) The application of the principle of formal equality by the High Court in this case to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) has received extensive criticism.