Sentences with phrase «racial inequalities still»

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She said Mr. Barron's brash rhetoric is still admired in his own district, where low - income residents a sluggish 3 train ride away from Manhattan revere an elected official willing to shout bluntly about economic and racial inequality.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Black adults still face a 7 percent unemployment rate, while the rate for white adults has declined to 3.4 percent.9 As a result, racial wealth inequality is at its highest point in nearly 30 years.10

It's hard to hide the fact that large parts of the country lives in poverty, and the rising problem of HIV / AIDS still hasn't be solved, and there is still racial inequality and past prejudices, but these aren't reasons to overlook South Africa.

Having lost overall population and remaining mired in economic inequality along racial lines, New Orleans still grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Indeed, some of Basquiat's most bracing work was political, with particular reference to the racial prejudices and inequality that is still rampant in America today.

A tour of the show's paintings should include the Fine Art Society, where you'll find three canvases by Walter Sickert — most outstandingly the war - themed 1914 «Tipperary» — along with lively floral still lifes, all from the 1920s, by Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood and William Nicholson, Britain's genius of light At Jonathan Boos, the centerpiece is «The Pigeons,» from 1948 - 49 by the Magic Realist Henry Koerner, which encompasses income inequality, childhood fear, racial strife and romance, all on a pink marble stair shown to be made of brick.