Sentences with phrase «racial strife»

An epic drama of racial strife in 1940s Mississippi, a surreal ghost story, and a gay coming - of - age romance were among the hits of this year's film festival.

The event featured novelist Barry C. Davis, whose A Strange and Bitter Fruit grapples with racial strife in the post-Civil War South and beyond.

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

Greenwood, nicknamed «the Cotton Capital of the World,» depended heavily on slave labor in the nineteenth century and became a flashpoint for racial strife throughout the twentieth.

Based on a book by New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin, the six - part miniseries recounts how a court - ordered requirement to build a small number of low - income housing units in a white neighborhood of Yonkers created what Simon called «such racial strife and such an astonishing level of political rage and fury, it paralyzed the city for a couple of years, destroyed political careers, and alienated neighbor from neighbor.»

Films exploring racial strife often employ symbolism, highlighting a flag, a statue, a Molotov cocktail thrown in protest.

In a time of continued racial strife exasperated by tiresome leaders, the cinematic fantasy of an African hero from an African nation, all in the backdrop of the familiar «MCU,» will be oxygen in a suffocating cultural climate.

Gook (Unrated) Racial strife saga, set in South Central L.A. in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, revolving around the attempt of a couple of Korean - American brothers (Justin Chon and David So) to protect their shoe store from rioters with the help of a street-wise, 11 year - old black girl (Simone Baker).

Soon after Brown's federal desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools in order to avoid anticipated racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»

How can school leaders generate change when realities like gang shootings and racial strife threaten to keep schools in crisis mode?

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromises our national security, making diversity a federal education policy issue.

Adelman's work captured a decade of racial strife during the 1960s, including portraits of Martin Luther King reciting his «I Have a Dream» speech, the 50 mile March from Selma to Montgomery, and King resting in his casket after the assassination.

Breath / Breadth aims to be intentional about revealing diversity, while also making reference to recent racial strife embodied in the concept of «breath» as it refers to the now very charged quote «I can't breathe» resonating with the current dialogue over how we identify and value black lives.

White Material (Unrated) Post-colonial drama, set in a war - torn African country in the midst of racial strife, about a French coffee farmer (Isabelle Huppert) who refuses to flee like the rest of the whites whose plantations have been nationalized.

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

The trend has not been affected by the racial strife of recent years

Unfortunately, Bigelow and «Hurt Locker», «ZD30» screenwriter Mark Boal spend an inordinate amount of time on the quest for stardom of the The Dramatics, whose dream of landing a Motown record contract is derailed by the racial strife in the city.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

The Dallas school board has become mired in scandal, racial strife, and lawsuits — mostly as a result of tape recordings of its members» own words.

Even so, he's not blind to its problems, portraying the bad smells in the air near factories with no EPA regulations, the racial strife and the poverty.

Between the World and Me is a riveting meditation on the state of race in America that has arrived at a tumultuous moment in America's history of racial strife.

President Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 had already cut deeply into the optimism, hope and anticipation of the early 1960s, and the subsequent escalation of the Vietnam War and racial strife in the cities tore that quilt of dreams wide open during the following year.

I remember hearing on the news and reading in the papers about the genocide in Rawanda, the racial strife between the Hutus and the Tutsis, but I really didn't understand what was going on and I forgot a very important thing.

Dial's assemblages at this time invoked representations of tigers — avatars for African Americans making their way through the South's jungle of racial strife and exclusion.