Sentences with phrase «racial history of»

«He recalls the bike he left behind in Cape Town when his family moved to Johannesburg, «writes Yelin, «and the racial history of South Africa.

This longstanding problem has roots in America's racial history of white supremacy, and this country will never be whole until it acts justly by reckoning with its own past.

It haunted me, and the more I learned about the racial history of both the church and our nation, I couldn't escape the implications of King's words.

122:1.2 Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.

Approaching his subject matter both musically and visually, Tangled Up takes the form of an exhibition and visual album comprised of sixteen audio tracks with accompanying videos, all written, composed and performed by Linzy, with the exception of the spiritual «Down by the Riverside,» which the artist performs, calling upon the racial histories of the United States.

Not exact matches

Milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S., with a history of racial discrimination that links back to Great Migration.

Twitter users called out H&M for serious oversight at best and overt racism at worst in styling a black child in the «monkey» hoodie, considering the long history of the term as a racial slur.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

Sotomayor wrote that the prosecutor «tapped a deep and sorry vein of racial prejudice that has run through the history of criminal justice in our nation,» and that he had attempted to «substitute racial stereotype for evidence.»

Take in the rich cultures of South Africa, and take a deep dive into the history of its racial struggles.

What will establish Madiba's giant stature in history was not only his prolonged fight for social justice and racial equality, but his determination, following the end of the apartheid regime, that there would be reconciliation, not revenge.

And black people, unfortunately, continue to be criminalized for our moments of courage, for our moments of mourning and grieving,» Black Lives Matter Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said when asked about the differing reactions to Parkland and black racial justice organizing during a HuffPost Black History Month panel earlier this week.

In Alabama, how else were we to feel the intense history of racial unrest than to think of To Kill a Mockingbird?

(He does seem to recognize Islam, with its history of racial slavery and its missionary drive, as a particular problem, around which he stumbles and fumbles a bit.)

At the same time, many of the patrons of racial injustice throughout history have been Christians.

Indeed, a quick study of history shows the origins of Liberty University and the Religious Right lie not in their opposition to abortion (that came later), but rather in their opposition to racial integration.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

Find out how racial reconciliation is a «foretaste of heaven» — and what it might mean for white Christians given our country's history.

The recent unfolding in #Ferguson is one example of our nation's racial history, particularly between African Americans and their white counterparts.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

His ideas on gays will be cast on the ash heap of history, along with those opposing racial, religious, ethnic, and gender equality.

William has learned a little about racial discrimination through Martin Luther King Day and conversations we've had about our complicated national history around the Fourth of July.

But it also found a long history of truly sickening racial discrimination within the Ferguson PD.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

The documentary explores not only the current systematic problems that have led to mass incarceration (which disproportionately effects people of color), but also the America's history of racial injustice — and how the two are related.

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

This hate mongering derived from fear of people's differences be they racial, religious, or lifestyle has only led to unnecessary violence and death since the dawn of recorded history.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

Although he was talking about the state of the planet, his words are also apt on the topic of racial justice: If you look at the data that shows how racial violence has evolved throughout history and aren't frustrated or exhausted, then you probably don't understand the full story.

Most Fascinating: Mary C. Curtis at the Washington Post with «Strom Thurmond's black daughter: a symbol of America's complicated racial history»

Montgomery, Alabama, based Equal Justice Initiative is challenging America's history of systemic racial and economic injustice.

There is not a little religious exclusiveness in the history of the Hebrews as it is recorded in the Old Testament, and this gave rise to a Jewish particularism which the greater prophets had to condemn as they stressed the love of God for all men.4 Yet the doctrine of creation that is the common heritage of Jewish and Christian faith asserts unequivocally the unity of mankind and leaves no standing ground for racial exclusiveness.

He more explicitly takes up the arguments of liberals within the mainline church who suggest that conservative histrionics over the inclusion of homosexuals are no different from the resistance to racial or gender inclusiveness or to revision to the Book of Common Prayer (indeed, conservatives on the issue of homosexuality are in some regrettable company in recent history).

Red - faced Sox A sportswriter describes the Boston Red Sox» long and shameful history of racial prejudice

Read more >> Celebrating Mothers of Memphis during Black History Month African Americans have the lowest rates of breastfeeding among all racial / ethnic groups in the United States.

The evening concluded with a sobering message about the unfortunate endurance of racial fissures in American politics: that advocates for maintaining the unequal status quo are at an advantage given the history of how the federal process was designed.

First, the underrepresentation of women and non-whites in parliaments is the result of a history of gender and racial domination and exclusion.

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 don't fully understand the present dynamic, and I don't think we will find the answer to our current problems by solely looking at the history of racial injustice in this country.

I believe that if it had not happened there, folks who don't fundamentally understand the history of racial oppression and police brutality in this country would have been more inclined to withhold judgment.

wrote Engel, who noted Paladino's «similarly shameful history of spreading racially offensive materials and enflaming racial divisions.»

It is a crowing and unabashed assertion of English superiority, unreconstructed from the Imperial era, deeply reliant on fraudulent history and denialism, and involving the ritualistic reproduction and invocation of racial stereotypes about «foreigners» (both in Britain and outside it).

Both are from areas with histories of BNP activity fomenting racial strife.

The doctor who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.

Two days after becoming the newest symbol of «tea party» politics, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky thrust himself, his party and the movement into an uncomfortable conversation about the federal government's role in prohibiting racial discrimination and about a period of history that most politicians consider beyond debate.

They say he has a long history of unresponsiveness to racial incidents.

Widely - known for unearthing the region's African - American History, her work transcended racial issues, broadening awareness on the experience and impact of many overlooked groups.

The psychologist who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants» sexual histories.