Sentences with phrase «tackle race issues»

The best known recent example of the style is the low - budget Lady Macbeth, which again tackled race issues in a more apparently - conventional period: here, in an adaptation of the Russian story Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Florence Pugh's genteel Katherine, trapped in a loveless marriage, embarks on a Lady Chatterley style love affair with an estate worker, played by another mixed - race actor, Cosmo Jarvis.

Not exact matches

Appointed in 1986, Scalia has been on the Court long enough to have tackled virtually every important legal issue of our day: abortion, religious liberty, race and gender equality, gay rights, and separation of powers, among others.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a sweeping reorganization of the New York Racing Association today, a move that paves the way for a government control board for the remainder of the governor's current four - year term that will tackle a variety of issues within the beleaguered sport.

Marvel's Black Panther seamlessly straddles being a blockbuster while tackling important issues of gender and race.

Race becomes a major issue this season, both inside the study and out, and the show tackles it with characteristic intelligence and unexpected perspectives.

Writer - director Justin Simien's Dear White People is a satire which tackles the issue of race in contemporary America.

Like Fuller again, Berg tackles the issue of race in the United States not as a liberal platform, but as the vile bedrock of human dementia.

While this film tackles a huge issue in the history of race relations in America, it's also a remarkably involving true story about a couple tenaciously holding on to each other in the middle of a storm of oppression.

«Mudbound» What Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks, and Mary J. Blige do in «Mudbound» is ensemble acting at its finest; each performance can be viewed from an individual or national perspective in this sweeping epic that tackles issues — war and its traumatic effects, race relations in the American South, the indivisible power of family — that resonate as much today as they did after World War II.

These two recently produced videos tackle issues including: stereotyping, media influence in Islamophobia, being judgmental and fear of different races or religions.

In these times of making education the foremost instrument of the global economy while making public schools the scapegoat for society's lack of will to tackle the messy issues of race and class, that mission has gotten lost.

This weekend, my high school debate students will be tackling many of the issues raised by Race to the Top.

The plot races as fast as the track runners in it, and — without ever feeling like a book about «issues» — it deftly tackles topics like isolation, diverse family makeup, living with illness, losing a parent, transcending socioeconomic and racial barriers, and — perhaps best of all — what it's like for a tween to love their little sister more than all the cupcakes in the world.

His blog tackles heavy issues like sexuality, race, and poverty all while informing others on how to travel as extensively as he has.

It seems like African American painters are among the few who still use painting as a political platform... Even though it's abstraction, your work straightforwardly tackles very difficult subject matter: issues of race, economic disparity, AIDS.

Goldblatt continues to explore the consciousness of South African society today, looking at the condition of race relations after the end of apartheid while also tackling other contemporary issues, such as the influence of the AIDS epidemic.

Her narratives unfold in elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, N.J.) regularly tackles issues of pop culture through the lenses of race, identity, advertising, and corporate branding.

In «Smell the Roses,» the artist's first museum show in Los Angeles, Gaignard tackles the big issues of race, class and, especially, identity.

Her narratives unfold throughout elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

Mark Bradford is a Los Angeles — based artist whose body of work is committed to addressing socio - political issues of our contemporary societies, tackling topics such as race, class and gender with great craft.

With the UK's housing sector still racing to try and keep up in the face of supply outstripping demand, and many would - be first - time buyers renting for longer and longer, it will be interesting to see how the Government plans to tackle the current issues in the Autumn Budget.

Some of the major issues tackled by the Commission in recent years include workplace sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and maternity leave; disability rights in areas such as access to transport, captioning, access to electronic commerce for older Australians and people with a disability; race discrimination; Indigenous social justice issues such as mandatory sentencing, community capacity - building and native title; and human rights issues such as children in detention, education for rural and remote communities and age discrimination.