Sentences with phrase «where racial tension»

Little Scarlet , his latest, is set just days after the 1965 riots in Watts, where the racial tension...

It is possible that some of my chosen social activities, like the Sierra Club, were over-populated with people like myself, so I effectively «shielded» myself from situations where racial tension was more evident.

In the wake of Boston's painful desegregation process in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled over.

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In an age of racial tension and discrimination, next generation leaders will embrace diversity; welcome differing opinions, ideas, and expressions; and create an open environment that promotes mutual understanding, where people come together for a greater good.

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

A 2014 report by the Correctional Association of New York, an independent non-profit that inspects state prisons and report on conditions, found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates, and racial tension festers between prisoners and correction officers.

And as with the majority of Green's films and TV works, the locales of the Southern states of America are depicted as utopian idylls where white people and black people cohabit with no hint of racial tension.

His pieces grapple with the racial and socioeconomic tensions of Paris's banlieues — suburbs synonymous with low - income housing — where he grew up, and of other cities he has worked in, including Marseille, Brooklyn, and Toronto.

Given the current political and racial climate, where tensions run high, this revived interest in Draper and Kamoinge are timely.