Sentences with phrase «racial tensions in»

We're not going to comment on another outlet's editorial standards, but any effort to exploit racial tensions in the middle of a tragedy is repugnant and dangerous.

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

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

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A timely exhibition of photography and video installation exploring identity and racial tensions in twenty - first century London.

Included in this year's Whitney Biennial, Henry Taylor's paintings address the increasingly visible racial tensions in America.

The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen, the Oscar - winning director of 12 Years A Slave, says he is «very, very sad, but not surprised» by recent racial tensions in the USA.

Opening an eye to racial tensions in a small Mississippi town, this enlightening film tracks events culminating in the high school's first integrated prom, financed by actor Morgan Freeman.

Racial tensions in the city peaked a year later, when Detroit police raided a bar in a black neighborhood, sparking five days of riots, looting, and fires.

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.

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...

Paul Haggis is no stranger to the ensemble drama: in 2004 he won three Oscars for Crash, his ambitious film examining racial tensions in Los Angeles.

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.

A gripping period drama about racial tensions in the American South during WWII that will leave your stomach in knots and your mind racing.

Adapted from the 1983 play by August Wilson, it tells the story of an African - American couple struggling to keep their family unit together amid swirling racial tensions in 1950s Pittsburgh.

Spike Lee's provocative film about racial tensions in Brooklyn won the outspoken director a number of accolades, including Golden Globe nods for best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor for Danny Aiello.

Its powerful depiction of simmering racial tensions in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s, exploding into horrific violence, should boost its profile as a prestige release, the drama fueled by sentiments still troublingly relevant in contemporary America.

Data indeed suggest that users of online dating sites tend to favor people of their own race... It could be a byproduct of racial tensions in the United States, Sinclair said, with «competitive victimhood» playing out among parts of the white... Free Online Dating in United States — United States Singles — United Read More...

Holt asked the candidates how they plan to «bridge a wide and bitter gap» when it comes to racial tensions in America.

Regrets that the racial tensions in the city, while I think we are on the path to resolving a lot of those issues, I would have like to have been farther along.

Monday's rally for Stewart - Cousins came after a week of escalating political tensions in Albany and racial tensions in Charlottesville, and just hours before President Trump returned to his Midtown home.

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

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

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.

Not only is the church set amid racial tensions, but there are racial tensions in the church, too.

[Editor's Note: This interview is split into two parts, read the first part here] The reactions to the cases of Mike Brown and Eric Garner have brought racial tensions in...

He was asked a question back in the beginning, and had he not answered it, the media would have spun it to be «President Obama ignores questions about racial tensions in the world today», or some such nonsense.

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.

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.

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

With all the news about mass shootings and racial tension in the U.S. this year, Mexico's neighbor to the north seems just as dangerous, said Vancouver resident Clark MacPherson.

The topic of conversation was uncommon in a corporate setting — racial tension in America.

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

We're struggling with racial tension in the city.

Very dialogue driven, in a Kevin Smith or Whit Stillman kind of way, Justin Simien's Dear White People mines the ever present racial tension in the United States for laughs.

However, the date for considering a new four - year contract for the superintendent was delayed as the result of the intervention by the Corporation for Boston, a multi-community group dedicated to easing racial tension in the city since school...

Known for her attention to character detail and striking visuals, Rees is a fantastic choice to take on Hillary Jordan's powerful story of family and racial tension in the post-WWII South.

In 1921, a rash argument over a pretty girl propels 17 - year - old Will Tillman into a hotbed of racial tension in...

, 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).

Like Scorched Earth, 2006 (Broad Museum, Los Angeles), Helter Skelter I's title refers to a real moment of racial tension in American history.

Russian groups reportedly placed dark posts on Facebook referencing the Black Lives Matter movement to inflame racial tension in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore.

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In an age of racial tension and discrimination, next generation leaders will embrace diversity; welcome differing opinions, ideas, and expressions; and create an open environment that promotes mutual understanding, where people come together for a greater good.

But these harassment issues have come under particular scrutiny in 2016 amidst racial tension through the U.S. and after the ailing Twitter was unable to secure acquisition bids from major media companies due to concerns with the quality of the community on Twitter.

Two years later it was kicked out of Malaysia because of racial tension — the city state was mainly ethnic Chinese, the peninsula dominated by Malays — and the antagonism of many senior politicians in Kuala Lumpur toward Lee, whom they considered headstrong and unpredictable.

As racial tensions have come more and more to light in the U.S. in the last few years, it's become increasingly important for churches to address theses issues.

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A social media firestorm ensued in which students used the hashtag #MBIprivilege to raise awareness about the racial tensions on campus.

In the projects I have observed, racial differences do not cause much tension.

It is ground owned by a congregation that, in the past, has acted in ways that made the racial tension worse; they are now seeking to change that dynamic.

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.