Sentences with phrase «where people of color»

A competitive capacity has to be encouraged where people of color are revved up to challenge the dominant white majority in the art world.

Cave says he is addressing gun violence and gun control issues, and race relations in America where people of color are often considered «guilty until proven innocent.»

As a country, we grapple with more than our share of discrimination challenges — where people of color, LGBTQ folks, and people with disabilities (to call out only a few of the bigger groups) feel its blow every single day.

They also frequently seek input from current corps members of color to ensure that TFA is a place where people of color feel comfortable and welcome, since word of mouth from current and former members is one of TFA's most important recruitment tools.

Our teacher members work in districts where people of color represent the majority and the children they teach are too often forgotten about in the creation of public policy, particularly in education decisions.

What we can make clear is that it's cool to watch an entire movie where people of color and women are strong, confident, and intelligent.

«Prior to the founding of POC Yoga, all yoga studios in the Seattle metropolitan area were overwhelmingly white spaces where people of color frequently felt uncomfortable.

These red lines defined areas where people of color could or couldn't get mortgages, forcing them into inner city areas that were eventually deemed unfit for investment by local banks.

When looking at Uber's nearly 6,000 U.S. employees, Uber faces an uphill battle trying to diversify a homogeneous workplace, where people of color tend to hold the jobs at the lowest rungs and are shut out of more lucrative and respected jobs in technology or leadership.

The analysis is part of Reveal's ongoing coverage of modern - day redlining in America, which found 61 metro area s, from Jacksonville, Florida to Tacoma, Washington, where people of color were significantly more likely to be denied a conventional home loan than their white counterparts.

Not exact matches

Synaesthesia is often described as a joining of the senses — where a person can see sounds or hear colors.

«We wanted to create a space where people were happy coming in to work,» says Longin, who previously studied psychology and color theory at the Art Institute of Chicago.

When it did lend in neighborhoods where the majority of residents were people of color, most of the loans still went to whites.

Government lending data reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows the companies direct their lending toward white borrowers and white neighborhoods, even in metros like Philadelphia where a majority of residents are people of color.

«There may be a symbolic importance in the M&M s, where an employee could interpret the experiment as part of a culture that cares for them, where leaders are connected to its people,» said John Nelson, a career expert and author of «What Color is My Parachute for Retirement.»

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

It is not important if Jesus was black or white, although I believe he would be the colors of the people where He was born!

But Leroy, when you ask whether folks think people of color have been mistreated where they live, what about white Christians who really don't have relationships with African - American brothers and sisters?

After all, you are part of a system that allows you to walk into stores where you are not followed, where you get to go for a bank loan and your skin does not count against you, where you don't need to engage in «the talk» that black people and people of color must tell their children.

If we succeed in changing the hierarchies we have imposed on people according to their race and color and sex, then we can have a world of persons, of horizontal relationship rather than hierarchy, a world of expression rather than oppression, where «there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female,» where we are all «one in Christ Jesus.»

In that quick moment, I thought back to the several parties she'd invited me to where I'd been the only person of color but I shrugged off the temptation to be defensive and said, «Well, there are usually a few others, but yes, it is a mostly black church.»

Where is this alleged Christian Privilege for people of color in America?

The only thing that I have been offended of was from a children's coloring book of noah's ark where they are on a boat looking at the water at people drowning reaching for help.

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.

White whole wheat is often a great option for people who don't like the heartier flavor of regular whole wheat flour, or for baked goods where you want a lighter - colored finished product.

You can know one another for years via computers, smart phones, and social media and get to know each other quite well, yet not know the little everyday details you might know about a friend when you know them in person — like their favorite color or what kind of car they drive or where they were born or the fact that you carry almost identical pink and white iPhone cases.

Boston is not known for charm of its weather, except maybe fall where people flock to see the leaves change color.

I've been looking at a lot of Instagram photos lately and the winter ones that stand out most are the ones where people are wearing bold colors.

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.

At 6 p.m., Eric Adams, the first person of color to serve as Brooklyn's chief executive, will host his Black History Month celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall, where he will celebrate the legacy of the borough's African - American businesses, 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn.

And yet I couldn't think of a single country where women get paid as much as men or people of color get as many chances in life as white people.

The borough president said he had no issue flying the colors of a nation where freedom of press and assembly are curtailed, political dissidents are arbitrarily arrested and do not enjoy due process rights, rival political parties are forbidden from campaigning, gay marriage is illegal and where LGBT persons were until relatively recently deported or placed in labor camps.

This book unfolds as a series of observations about light, including where it comes from, how it bounces off of people and objects, and what we mean when we say the colors of a rainbow are the colors in light.

Other issues for the panelists included isolation (particularly in departments where they were either the only woman or person of color), having their work on race and gender taken seriously, and balance.

The time is gone where it was adequate for academic institutions, government, or industrial organizations to simply place a token woman or person of color in a subordinate position within the organization, and then pat itself on the back for having done so.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

He felt bottled up in Lubbock, he says, and is drawn to places like India, where you step out of a taxicab to face cows and crowds and people of many colors speaking strange languages: «It's incredible, and it's overwhelming.

His passion still involves education, but it has shifted to K - 12, where many people of color are turned away from science.

Furthermore Dash notes, being a person of color makes you a «visible» minority, «where you do not have choice of being identified or not.

After they're formed, melanocytes migrate to the bottom of the hair follicle, where they give off a person's characteristic hair color to keratinocytes that make up a hair.

Processed and store - bought food is so stripped of natural flavors and nutrients that companies have to dump in salt, coloring, and artificial flavors to get them tasty enough to where people not only want to eat them — but want to eat them over and over and over again.

You know a fire type, let's just go with that one for a second, you know the brilliance of the fire type is the entrepreneur, the one who just... it's almost like the Midas touch where, and this is the color yellow anyway, this is about they have an idea, they carry it through, they make it successful, it helps people, they feel good, there's abundance and you know maybe it's just abundance of just even ideas so that person is really in alignment with their fire.

Bright pants aren't super common; I get a ton of compliments because that's not the part of your body where people are usually expecting to see a big splash of solid color, so when people notice them they can't help but say something.

Those devious people at my nearby Macy's seemed to know I was coming so they baited the trap with a splash of color in a rack right in the aisle where I'd be sure to see it.

They have a super useful feature on their site where you can see your choice on people of different hair colors and skin tones.

People asked where I'd found it (the party required Mardi Gras colored dress of either gold, purple or green which was a challenge).

I sometimes wear a cream that gives some «a bit of bronze» color to my face, cause I am very white too (to the point that if I am wearing a skirt without tights, people think I am wearing white tights — and here it's considered «bad», but I was very happy to be able to wear no tights in Europe, where it's so normal to be pale white like me!

There are a number of features on offer at Millionaire Match that really «sell» the idea that this site is a place where rich people come to find love (including the Showcase of Luxuries photo albums) and the gold and black color scheme does hint at a feeling of luxury.