Sentences with phrase «racial tensions at»

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

Recalling the 18 black athletes who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, despite the racial tensions at home in the U.S. and the Aryan presence of Hitler in Germany.

Mattie is a top ice hockey player tipped to be selected by one of the top teams in the National Hockey League, but his plans are jeopardized by his hustling brother and the corrosive racial tension at his high school.

It seemed to me that in Cuba I was surrounded by people of other colors — and yet there was no racial tension at all.

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Critics have been lashing out at the company on social media, saying Starbucks is trying to capitalize on racial tension in the US.

Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a time when racial tensions in America have been on the rise.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

Racial tensions are at an all - time high.

Racial tensions are at an all time high.

In two of the most troubled areas of the earth, South Africa and the Middle East, racial conflict and tension are at an all - time high, with no hope of any immediate abatement.

Relatively few people now reading his 1968 Birmingham speech would disagree with Tory leader Ted Heath's judgement at the time that the speech was «racialist in tone and liable to exacerbate racial tensions».

Blackman has been accused of stirring up racial tensions as a result of racial bias for hosting Tapan Gosh, an anti-Islam campaigner from India at a House of Commons event in October 2017.

Despite the high - profile tension between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department, Mr. de Blasio's approval rating remains steady at 49 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today — but a wide racial gap persists.

An RA course at SUNY Binghamton designed to diffuse racial tensions is being decried for its name — «Stop White People.»

Mr. de Blasio, who renamed the Manhattan Municipal Building for Mr. Dinkins and unveiled a plaque for him at a ceremony beneath its ornate archway, once worked for the one - term mayor, who served at a time when crime and racial tensions roiled the city.

Richeson, who is now at Northwestern University, thus concluded that color - blind policies might backfire, generating more racial tension by stoking rather than lessening implicit bias.

The racial tension is at all time high in the US and I feel for everyone.

At times The Express couldn't decide whether it was telling a story of racial tensions, a general inspirational sports film or the tragic biography of Ernie Davis

«From here on out, it'll be fascinating to watch Homeland present a world in which international tensions are at their highest, especially as issues of racial and religious profiling dominate our real - world headlines...»

This provocative documentary looks at how decades of racial tensions, injustice and a troubled relationship between the LAPD and the African - American community led to the uprising.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

But despite its fearless look at racial tensions, the film moves at a relaxed and humorous pace.

Though written by Russell Gewirtz, it is still Lee's joint from beginning to end, and it wouldn't be a Spike Lee film without at least a casual reference to racial tension.

The title has multiple meanings as this two - hour, 15 - minute saga not only focuses on Owens» life and historic feats at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, but on the racial tensions of the times, both in Germany and the United States.

Its vernacular use of a «real» look at racial tension is fabulous oil for a souped - up old engine — so familiar as to be palatable, but twisted just enough to feel fresh.

Gook is similar in structure and tone to Spike Lee's masterpiece Do the Right Thing, in that both films use their first two acts to give the audience a false sense of comfort, only to let racial tension slowly boil beneath the surface before exploding in tragedy at the end of the film.

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

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

Barack Obama's first defining experience was being born to a white mother and black father, a biracial baby arriving at a time when America was seething with racial tension.

This lesson looks at Christian teachings on racial harmony firstly through the parable of the Good Samaritan and later through a collection of images that can be related to religion and racial tensions across the globe.

«At a moment in our history when we confront significant economic inequalities, distressing racial tensions, increasing segregation and crucial questions about immigration, the passage of tepid legislation that addresses none of these issues is not a cause for celebration.»

Blood at the Root is the result, an account as riveting in its historical detail as it is troubling in its foreshadowing of racial tensions today.

With his nappy black hair and dark complexion, the boy at the center of Kit de Waal's debut, My Name is Leon, is caught up in the middle of the racial tensions of 1981 South London.

You'd think a game set in the 60's and focusing on racial tensions and mafia rivalries would be interesting, but the developers failed at coupling an excellent story with equally interesting gameplay.

NEW YORK - The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics.

At a time of increasing racial tension, particularly in the US, this is a chance to consider the work of artists who championed racial empowerment over 50 years ago.

The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics.

, Diggs Gallery at Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC, (2016); Art + Dialogue: Responding to Racial Tension in America, Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC, (2015) and High Point University, High Point, NC, (2016); Realities in Contemporary Video Art, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France, (2015); So Much to She, Flanders Gallery, Aaron Fowler and Chris Watts, Raleigh, NC, (2015).

«This biennial arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities and polarizing politics,» they write in the introductory statement, «inviting us to pause and pose questions in a tumultuous world.»

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.

March 17 — June 11, 2017 The 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy - eighth installment of the longest - running survey of American art, arrives at a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities, and polarizing politics.

The report explores the history of tension between green activism and racial justice, and the many attempts at rapprochement...