Sentences with phrase «raised by black women»

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Time's Up also aims to establish gender parity at talent agencies and studios and has urged women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday to raise awareness by wearing black and discussing gender inequality.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

Adoption Guide 2011 -(Page 88) BEST RESOURCES FOR ADOPTION FROM AFRICA Must - read articles and personal stories: • «My Ethiopian Daughters,» by Rita Radostitz www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1663 • «Transracial Adoption: A History of Black and White,» by Phil Bertelsen, www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=290 • «A Hard Lesson,» by Sharon Van Epps www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=2158 • «Braiding Barbara's Hair,» by Erika Solberg www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1660 • «Raising a Child of Another Race,» by Jana Wolff www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=155 Books: • There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children, by Melissa Fay Greene • Love in the Driest Season, by Neely Tucker • You Can Adopt: An Adoptive Families Guide, by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley Websites and e-mail listservs: • AdoptiveFamiliesCircle adoption community, adoptivefamiliescircle.com • Rwanda Embassy, www.rwandaembassy.org • Lesotho Embassy, www.lesothoemb-usa.gov.ls • Embassy of Ethiopia, www.ethiopianembassy.org • Ethiopian Adoption Blogs, www.ethiopianadoptionblogs.

«They work to tackle racial and gender inequality by raising wages of women, black and Hispanic workers.

She was right to raise the injustices faced by black people, women, and the poor, during her speech.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

According to The New York Times, one of the Time's Up tenets is «a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black.»

One of the Time's Up tenets was «a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black,» helping to ensure that the conversation would continue Sunday evening and beyond.

The film, written by Brad Ingelsby and produced by Scott Free, Black Bicycle Entertainment and Romulus Entertainment, centers on a woman who, after the disappearance of her daughter, is left to raise her young grandson.

January Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet) 35 mm — 5.6 Always Shine (2016, Sophia Takal)-- 6.1 The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini)-- 6.7 Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese) DP — 8.6 Hidden Figures (2016, Theodore Melfi) DP — 3.9 Lumière and Company [segment](1995, Zhang Yimou) + Café Society (2016, Woody Allen)-- 6.2 [up from 5.7] Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux)-- 6.0 Happy Hour (2015, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)-- 7.6 + Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins) DP — 6.8 [up from 6.4] Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou)-- 6.7 Live by Night (2016, Ben Affleck) DP — 4.4 Paterson (2016, Jim Jarmusch) DP — 7.2 Don't Think Twice (2016, Mike Birbiglia)-- 3.6 A Monster Calls (2016, J.A. Bayona) DP — 4.9 + Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese) DP — 8.7 [up from 8.6] Indignation (2016, James Schamus)-- 5.9 + Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) DP — 7.3 [same] Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan) DP — 5.8 Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou)-- 7.0 Chronicle of a Summer (1961, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)-- 6.9 + The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)-- 5.8 [down from 5.9] Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi)-- 5.2 + Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)-- 7.4 [up from 7.2] Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa) 35 mm — 7.0 20th Century Women (2016, Mike Mills) DP — 6.9 Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami) DP — 6.2 Swiss Army Man (2016, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan)-- 3.1 The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa) 35 mm — 7.0 The Mermaid (2016, Stephen Chow)-- 6.0 Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)-- 7.0 Christine (2016, Antonio Campos)-- 4.4 Resident Evil (2002, Paul W.S. Anderson)-- 6.3 Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004, Alexander Witt)-- 5.4 Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, Russell Mulcahy)-- 6.6 Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W.S. Anderson)-- 6.9 Resident Evil: Retribution (2012, Paul W.S. Anderson)-- 7.3 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016, Paul W.S. Anderson) 3D — 7.2 Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)-- 7.2 Julieta (2016, Pedro Almodóvar) DP — 6.5

In 1983, he raised funds to purchase several contemporary works by Black women artists and positioned the College as an institution where objects by and about women of the African Diaspora would be accessible, exhibited and regularly discussed.

Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis — an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal - fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray - haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint - green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table.

These dramatic events take place in the context of the uprising of the oppressed population, led by Norma's father, Oroveso, and places the black woman and her affect in the centre of political issues, raising questions about her status and representation in contemporary society.

Art & Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980 and The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World have exploded into a tirade across Facebook — with complaints lodged by Kara Walker and Jerry Saltz among others — and now, an anonymous group has gone so far as to petition the Times to «acknowledge and address this editorial lapse and the broader issues raised by these texts.»

Johnson and Miller have been named by Forbes as the 15th and 16th Black women ever to raise $ 1 million in venture capital to grow their business.

[FN191] For example, effort is made to encourage co-parenting even when parents are demonstrably antagonistic; [FN192] women are resented and mistrusted, even as they are expected to epitomize the good parent; [FN193] black women are particularly vilified; [FN194] men are viewed as discriminated against in the * 818 custody process or as needed to offset the negative impact of being raised by a single mother, thus resulting in an effort to encourage the father's participation in child rearing.