Sentences with phrase «racial tensions between»

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

After two Tuskegee Airmen are brought to the camp, racial tensions between the Yankee prisoners erupt, leading to a murder and an extended court martial that casts doubt on the American prisoners» moral superiority in questions of race and justice.

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

Racial tensions between the police and people of color have been boiling over in America as of late.

Having both of them on the ballot would have diluted the minority vote and raised racial tension between two powerful voting blocs.

Not exact matches

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

We see the roots of wrong (Genesis 3:16 - 19) replay on the news each day — tensions between men and women; parents and children; brother and brother; differing religious, racial, ethnic and socio - economic groups.

Those of us who struggle against racial injustice must come to see that the basic tension is not between races.

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

By positing a profound tension between freedom and reason (or, in his construction, will and reason), Ockham created a situation in which there are only two options: determinisms of a biological, racial, or ideological sort, or the radical relativism that, married to irrationalism, eventually yields nihilism.

The ongoing tensions between warring factions of state Senate Democrats turned ugly and racial on the chamber floor during a heated budget debate yesterday afternoon.

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.

ALBANY — The ongoing tensions between warring factions of state Senate Democrats turned ugly and racial on the chamber floor during a heated budget debate Wednesday afternoon.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

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.

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

The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.

Last year, racial tension was tackled in the 1960s - set drama Detroit as riots unfolded in the Michigan city, sparking a confrontation between citizens and the law during a time of great turmoil.

Despite sourcing Wil Haygood's Washington Post article «A Butler Well Served by this Election», this is very much an uneven, fictional account that recklessly uses Allen's biographical details to ask about the separation between servant and slave, while filtering these characters through the various decades of racial tension and the Civil Rights Movement of America.

The storylines weave between the two struggling families, but the racial tensions come to a head when Ronsel Jackson returns from a decidedly less racist Europe to a town still mired in violent hatred.

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.

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families.

Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers.

The title plays simultaneously between grammar and the tensions of postcolonial and racial discourses that are inherent in Canadian society and abroad.

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