Sentences with phrase «racial justice activists»

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Faces of the Campaign is an ongoing series featuring our key organizers and stakeholders involved in «Put A Price On It, D.C.» Our coalition of 70 organizations is comprised of racial justice activists, union workers, health advocates, moms, dads, kids, retirees, and business - owners alike.

Faces of the Campaign is an ongoing series featuring our key organizers and stakeholders involved in «Put A Price On It, D.C.» Our coalition — more than 45 groups as of this writing — is comprised of racial justice activists, union workers, health advocates, moms, dads, kids, retirees, and business - owners alike.

Through numerous examples, he points out that it is common for white racial justice activists to be held in some suspicion both by white Americans as well as by people of color, a suspicion that inhibits the formation of successful collaboration.

Actors such as Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Emma Watson further expressed their support for the victims of abuse by choosing to bring various gender and racial justice activists as their dates, including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai - jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

But for some black racial justice activists, organizers, and public figures, the reaction to the students of Stoneman Douglas has also led to another truth: Organizing around Black Lives Matter and the larger Movement for Black Lives, another youth - led movement demanding policy change in the wake of trauma, was not and has not been as readily embraced.

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

Not exact matches

The company responded to complaints by meeting with Oakland activist group Neighbors for Racial Justice, and CEO Nirav Tolia said feedback from those meetings was incorporated into a new model for the site's crime and suspicious activity reporting feature.

Environmental and racial - justice activist Siwatu - Salama Ra was unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned, and, now in the third trimester of a high - risk pregnancy, is serving a two - year sentence.

Nothing so underscores the discontinuity between the clerical activists, who have marched and even died for racial justice, and their nondemonstrating brethren.

It is one thing to think of Martin King as a civil rights activist who transformed America's race relations and quite another to regard racial justice as having theological significance.

The same political and populist activists form a kind of «protection racket,» seeking to brand as «liberal» those Christian voices that wish to speak about matters such as racial justice.

We were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Black, White, Latinx, Asian, straight, gay, citizen, DREAMers, activists in the areas of housing, criminal justice, LGBTQI rights, immigration, education, racial justice, women's rights, and many other issues.

The event was organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and attendees included civil rights activist Linda Sarsour; Fatoumata Waggeh of African Communities Together; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and José Rolando Matalón, who serves as the Senior Rabbi at Manhattan's B'nai Jeshurun synagogue.

This coming Mon., Apr. 13th, community activists and leaders will embark on a 250 - mile walk through five states to deliver to Congress what they call «Justice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community inveJustice Package» — a set of criminal justice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community invejustice reforms aimed at addressing racial profiling, aggressive policing and the need for community investment.

BlackLivesMatter was Tweeted 9 million times this year, and the hashtag that started on social media, has become a social calling card for social justice and racial equality activists across the U.S. Thanks for Signing Up!

«There was always a focus on the civil - rights movement and it was as if black history stopped once Dr. King died,» said Raquel Willis, a writer and racial - justice activist in Atlanta.

On Thursday, June 29, NEA will announce the 2017 Social Justice Activist of the Year during the closing luncheon of the Conference on Racial and Social Justice.

For Dr. King, racial justice was intrinsically coupled with economic justice — and today's activists and allies do not merely acknowledge that intimate connectedness, but demand its embrace.

We wanted to provide an opportunity for social justice activists who had dissociated from their investment portfolio to invest their money and their trust in communities most impacted by racial, climate and economic crises.

Jo Kreiter, choreographer and 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow: Racial Justice and Mass Incarceration Megan Metcalf, Art History PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles

Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Grant Location: Anywhere This year's Artist as Activist Fellowship provides the opportunity for creative professionals who are committed to moving the dial on mass incarceration, and by extension racial justice, to seek a robust set of resources to advance their work.

A long - time resident of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, he has been an activist and organizer on issues of war, immigrants» rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice and Palestinian self - determination.