Sentences with phrase «reflects black communities»

It is not that they believe they are the cure - all, but it reflects black communities» desperation for better educational opportunities for their children.

This could also reflect the black community that for some reason the women are the ones who carry the family name (although we lose it when we are married) and the bloodline.

Not exact matches

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

Newton's comments leading up to the Panthers game and protest reflected him wanting to bring unity, but said his desire for accountability applied to both the black community and police officers and that there was a state of oppression in the black community but also that «as black people, we have to do right by ourselves.

Barron said this was «a first meeting, an opportunity to perhaps establish movement toward regular interactions,» and perhaps to «change [many] of the policies that have not benefited black people, have been offensive and have criminalized them to a degree, which is not reflected in other communities.»

Martin Price, Chairman of Bronx Community Board # 11: «When I reflect on the celebration of Black History Month I think of the common thread of well meaning people striving to better their lives and the lives of those around them.

Senator Klein said: «Black History Month provides an opportunity to not just reflect and recognize the achievements of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but also the contributions made by black leaders in their local communiBlack History Month provides an opportunity to not just reflect and recognize the achievements of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but also the contributions made by black leaders in their local communiblack leaders in their local communities.

This is reflected in commonly espoused commentary about a supposed «black community» or «gay community», or in the implied notion that female voters should automatically pick female politicians at the ballot box.

He also spoke eloquently on how the image of the tragic black hero, or the flawless black hero, reflects the culture's problem with processing a marginal community as just a group of human beings, and why he didn't want the characters, white and black, in his film to be easily categorized or glibly understood.

Will you demand that 50 percent of all new charters go to black and brown founders, and that existing charters better reflect the communities they serve?

During her fellowship, she will be developing her leadership skills and reflecting on her teaching practice within this learning community to become a more effective advocate for Black educators.

The early morning event was organized and led by three 8th grade student leaders who were inspired by a school in Vermont that flew a Black Lives Matter flag and included discussion of how the school community is working to deepen the cultural relevancy of its practices to make sure every student sees themselves reflected in the faculty, in the books they read and in the history they learn.

[85] The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

The coalescence of the black community around the anti-charter campaign was reflected in the inner city vote total, with Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester all voting around two to one against question 2.

«There was this manifesto with the Black Arts Movement that you did work that reflected the beauty of that community in no uncertain terms,» she says, referring to a group that coalesced in the 1960s to promote social and political engagement in art and literature.

The shortage of women reflects an opportunity deficit present in sectors of wider society and a formidable issue in the art community at - large (see recent special report on women in the art world in ARTnews magazine), which is exacerbated when it comes to black artists.

The program will include artists and curators reflecting on art, politics, music, and community in the age of Black Power.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

Curated by Hilton Als, The New Yorker's chief theater critic (and a New Yorker éminence grise), «Alice Neel, Uptown» reflects the years that the artist lived in Harlem and the Upper West Side, immersed in the black and Latino communities that she painted at least as often as her more famous white sitters.

Some created work that directly reflected the urgent concerns facing the black community in American society.

There are also Glenn Ligon's small paintings of text taken from «Invisible Man,» Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, that reflect notions of black identity; Nikki S. Lee's photographs of herself made - up and dressed to fit into different communities — hip - hop, punk, rural white; and Catherine Opie's portraits of lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in Los Angeles.

Collections of local black - and - white pottery were selected on an ethos of quality over quantity to reflect the restrained luxury of Serenbe's pastoral community.