Sentences with phrase «racial tensions»

With the turn of the century, came a rise in racial tensions in the state.

We're struggling with racial tension in the city.

A considerably relevant film about racial tensions couldn't come at a better time.

Many of the book's themes are in the news today, such as racial tensions and immigration.

There are still neighborhoods where racial tension runs high and boundaries still occur.

Collaboration is critical to effective professional development; there may be racial tensions among teachers that no one wants to talk about.

With multiple challenges facing our children and youth, including racial tensions and gun violence, we need to work together to counter these forces.

The campaign suffered a public backlash from the start, with critics accusing the company of using racial tension to sell coffee.

The disparity of that economic relationship is what ultimately drives the neighbourhood's underlying racial tensions toward tragedy.

Nowhere was this the case than when it came to the seat's famous racial tensions.

And deprivation and disadvantage were key in neighbourhood relationships, with racial tensions often driven by struggles for employment and housing.

The only people pitching this whole «racially divisive» thing are the liberals who know they'd be out of a job without racial tensions.

He's merely turning that up, using an easily identifiable racial tension to make a horror movie.

The fact that the prospect is an awkward one is, after all, precisely a result of racial tension.

Some have criticised these tactics in light of significant existing racial tensions in the area.

These typical empathy storytelling building blocks, however, aren't quite typical: they're shot through with racial tension.

The metaphors about racial tensions and systemic injustice are clear without being annoying.

The addition of a single broadband provider led to as much as a 20 percent rise in racial hate crimes in areas where racial tensions were especially high.

[1] Handsworth Songs, the first documentary produced by the collective, focused on racial tensions in Britain in the 1980s.

But it heightened racial tensions at a time when race had become as turbulent an issue as the storm.

There is some depiction of racial tensions between the sailors, and this is commendable in theory, but not in practice.

It weaves a rich tapestry that also comments on the impact of service in WW2 on two young men from each family, black and white, and simmering racial tensions of the region in that period.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today defended selecting NYPD Chief of Department James O'Neill to take over from outgoing NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton — arguing that the police department's third successive Irish - American is the person best - suited to soothe the inflamed racial tensions surrounding law enforcement.

It's an outrageous oversight that comes after a year of racial tensions surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

The son of an honest bus driver looks up to a local mob boss amid racial tension in 1960s New York.

Christians can not ignore the problems created by racial tensions in their society, nor problems of geography and culture.

Explain how and why the KKK caused racial tension throughout th...

One woman asked him about the danger of increased racial tension in the UK due to his comments on immigration.

Called The Many Saints of Newark, the script is set in the New Jersey city in the»60s at the time of the riots, when racial tensions between the city's black and Italian - American residents was at a boiling point.

We do not like the thought that it may be our own unconvertedness, our own unregenerateness, that causes racial tension within the...

Or, alternately, we choose to think that although God does not like racial tension, he knows how inevitable it is, and therefore he thinks that the races ought to stay away from one another.

Between the Women's March, the election and inauguration, escalating racial tension and such, there has been plenty to fight about on social media.

The loathing the two men have for one another after decades of warring provides a platform to explore current racial tensions in the world at large, a hallmark of the Western genre.

It is also due to painful memories, such as the Smethwick controversy in the 1964 general election, in which Tory candidate Peter Griffiths exploited racial tensions in the West Midlands constituency to win the race.

A city struggling with an undercurrent of racial tension for decades has another gaping wound.

Danielpour got a job as a spring training batboy for the Braves, hoping the sport would be an escape from racial tension.

«Detroit» depicts the violence and anger, triggered by heightened racial tensions, between the city's largely black population and mostly white police force.

The mayor said O'Neill is well - suited to tackle racial tensions around law enforcement, calling him the author of his neighborhood policing program in which police officers meet with community residents and leaders.

Mudbound (Netflix, Nov. 17th) Director Dee Rees (Pariah) swings for the fences with this adaptation of Hillary Jordan's wartime epic novel about two families in rural Mississippi — one black, one white — contend with simmering racial tension over a span of years.

Henry Taylor makes paintings that confront the increasingly visible racial tensions between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

(Charles Stuart originally had accused an African American man of being the murderer, a charge that created racial tensions in Boston.)

CNN has learned that a popular racial justice social media account calling itself «Blacktivist» was actually being used by the Russian government in an attempt to stoke racial tensions.

This sees Amma Asante continue to explore racial tension at fascinating, lesser - told historical junctures.

We do not like the thought that it may be our own unconvertedness, our own unregenerateness, that causes racial tension within the church.

The slaves were treated under the most inhumane conditions, and scars of the slave trade remain today with racial tension persisting in some western countries.