Sentences with phrase «where blacks struggle»

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps persist.

Not exact matches

The challenge to say something about God and the black liberation struggle was enhanced when Ronald Goetz (a classmate during my student years at Garrett) invited me in February 1968 to lecture at Elmhurst College, where he was teaching.

Thus Vincent Harding, Kwame Ture, Winnie Mandela, and many others have spoken in accordance with the philosophy of black power in maintaining that where there is oppression, there will also be some form of protest and struggle for liberation.

He visited countries in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, where he explained the black struggle for justice in the U.S. and linked it with liberation struggles throughout the world.

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

We ended up finding out that I was struggling with a condition where my blood would pool in my legs and cause my blood pressure to drop 30 points when I was standing so I would black out, and fall.

Today is «Amazon Prime Day,» where allegedly Prime Members get more deals than Black Friday... yet I must admit it's a struggle to figure out how best to narrow the choices down and see the best deals.

Where those films exist within the parameters of real - life and the boxing ring, respectively, Black Panther affords Jordan the opportunity to re-embody similar thematic concepts (systemic brutality, the struggles of legacy) in a newly fantastically expressive way.

► A woman wakes up in a shelter and finds a man molesting her: she shoves him and runs out into a thick forest where she hides and then runs again; she finds a truck parked on a roadway and gets inside before seeing her attacker walking toward her, she runs and he chases her, then tackles her and pulls her clothing off as she struggles against him; she manages to get away and the man looks at his hands to see black liquid and he runs away.

Speaking of complex, where this film manages to do something I've rarely seen in a mainstream movie, that is delve into the idea of double consciousness, as well as the intergenerational struggles in the Black family.

WHAT: When young Riley (Kaitlyn Davis) is uprooted from Minnesota and moved to San Francisco for her father's new job, her emotions — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black)-- struggle to adjust to her new life, creating havoc inside her mind where her memories and personalities are stored.

Revolution is described as an «epic adventure thriller» and centers on a family that struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic America where every single piece of technology has mysterious blacked out.

Reversion (Unrated) Apocalyptic sci - fi drama set in an altered City of Los Angeles where the past, present and future unfold simultaneously, and revolving around a black woman (Leslie Silva) struggling to remain faithful to her man (Jason Olive) in the wake of a genetic mutation which has left her with a lack of morality.

Dee Rees made a huge impact on the 2011 Sundance Film Festival where she premiered her first feature «Pariah,» a drama about a black teen struggling with her sexual identity.

Recently I sat down with funny man Jack Black to discuss his involvement with the Red Nose Day event and what he learned through his trip to Uganda where he experienced first hand the dire conditions many families are struggling to survive in.

So the struggle continues to make America a place where black people and black institutions are respected; where integration is viewed through the prism of pluralist acceptance; and where low - income and working - class black families have the power to secure the kind of education they desire for their children.

Imagine Me Leadership Charter School held a school and community - wide professional development opportunity where Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu spoke to the struggles and successes of working with young black boys.

At both the school where I taught for 17 years and the Board of Education, I have built partnerships that address the education disadvantages that saddle so many black and Latino students struggling against our institutionally racist systems.

We have heard the story on a walking tour which has also taken us past the office where Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo became the country's first black lawyers and which is now a «sidewalk museum» with window displays telling the story of the anti-apartheid struggle; the replica mineshaft head, a reminder of the gold on which the city was founded; the Rand Club where Kipling first recited If; and Gandhi Square with its statue of the man who was later to lead the fight for India's independence.

After watching a riot unfold through the thick black smoke of burning tires we headed north, to the mountains, where we hoped to learn about life in the struggling, post-revolutionary, pseudo-democracy that is Nicaragua.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.