Sentences with phrase «struggle for equality»

After decades of struggling for equality, older lesbians deserve their own safe space to mingle and fall in love.

Her work focuses on African American culture and the ongoing struggles for equality and international human rights.

Modern gay shifters struggle for equality, but history paints a different picture.

As Women's History Month draws to a close, we explore how the evolution of NPS uniforms reflects women's long struggle for equality in the workforce.

Given the recent flood of sexual abuse allegations and the continued struggle for equality between the sexes, now really feels like the right time for a film about Gloria Steinem, a galvanizing figure in the feminist movement.

Worn down by endless struggles for equality with changing governments, both at state and federal levels, who failed to deliver on promises, and beset by his own personal demons as a consequence of his institutionalisation, he took his life 20 years ago.

Virtually all of the major themes that have engaged Weems are represented, including personal narrative, such as Family Pictures and Stories and the famous Kitchen Table Series; the legacy and locales of slavery, including Sea Islands Series, Jefferson Suite, Slave Coast, and Dreaming in Cuba; contemporary perceptions of African Americans, as in Colored People and Afro - Chic; and the universal struggle for equality dealt with in works like Ritual and Reunion.

Created in 1998, the three - dimensional, gallery - sized installation was created in 1998 and «explores the historic human struggle for equality and justice, including references to the Middle Passage, the French Revolution, [and] World War II.»

Edwards viewed the aftermath of the Watts riots when he lived and worked in Los Angeles during the 1960s and witnessed the continued struggle for equality upon his move to New York and in subsequent trips to Latin America and Africa, where he established a second home and studio in Senegal.

Lately, she has broadened her views to include global struggles for equality and justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

The stories of LGBT people can be important teachable moments in our nation's ongoing struggle for equality, but the issue is that awards groups like the Oscars only tend to recognize a single story — in which queer people are being sacrificed for our sins.

In their long struggle for equality, India's dalits, or «untouchables,» have often exchanged their Hinduism for Islam, Christianity, Sikhism or Buddhism, believing that they will better their lives by doing so.

Don't ever point out the similarities to black people; they get really worked up and insist their struggle for equality isn't like those of gays.

I think many of us will look back decades from now and wish we had done more for the rights of gays when they were struggling for equality.

Pre - existing / Christian egalitarian thoughts and struggle for equality and justice were evident in Dalit history and memory But the early Dalits had their own ways of protest and resistance.

These two questions reflect an interest in adding to the rights of homosexuals as part of a larger concern for the struggle for equality and against discrimination.

We as women still struggle for equality in society, so too in marriage.

As Hobhouse put it, «the struggle for liberty is... a struggle for equality».

It is joined by the struggle for equality after a Budget that takes a higher proportion of income from the poorest than from the richest.

The route was awash in rainbow flags and joyful groups singing and holding up signs such as «I like it so I can put a ring on it,» celebrating a struggle for equality that stretches back decades.

I can never forgive him for those comments, made at a time when so many were dying, when so many in our community were struggling for equality and dignity.

Freedom from constant child - rearing allowed women to begin the struggle for equality and also pushed back the age at which young people started families, creating a new demographic we call «teenagers».

But Professor West has opted to remain true to his core values by sharing the sage insight that an African - American occupying the White House will not automatically mean the struggle for equality is over or that we have realized Dr. King's dream of a post-racial society where one is judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.

The sight of McDormand, donning blue work coveralls and a gray bandana across her forehead, is something of a fever dream, an embodiment of the ongoing struggle for equality and respect.

By Greta Cobar Community activism and participation in the struggle for equality for all members of our community are Deborah Lashever's trademarks.

In California, White was geographically removed from the center of the civil rights movement, although he kept in contact with friends on the east coast and continued to contribute to the struggle for equality through the arts.

An important show in our moment of renewed awareness of how far the struggle for equality still has to go.

Featuring both historical and contemporary works, the exhibition shows artists examining the socio - political issues of their day, including migration, censorship and struggles for equality and democracy

Investigating identity, consumer culture, history, and power, the art featured in The Future is Female illuminates both the consequences of and the persistence of the struggle for equality.

The Charter is a significant and valuable tool in the struggle for equality rights.

On June 26th, 2015, you may have heard a nation exhale as those active in the struggle for equality learned of the Supreme Court s ruling supporting same...

Our history is of a struggle for equality and to have our rights recognised and to be recognised as human beings — and that struggle is still with us.

... Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by non-violent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her.»