Sentences with phrase «white authors who»

«Snowy Day» was written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, a white author who made a point of featuring diverse characters in his work.

Not exact matches

-- Garrett J. White, founder of Wake Up Warrior, CEO of DKW Styling, author and podcaster who has worked with thousands of men to transform their lives

However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several women, including by the article's author.

The last point that emerges from the White Rose leaflets and the story of their authors is that these were Germans who loved their fatherland.

«For the most part, popes had been viewed as old Italian guys in white sitting on some gilded baroque throne in Rome,» says David Gibson, who has authored multiple books on the papacy.

The Rev. James Ellis III, an author who has been both critical and supportive of Cone, says before Cone, theology was interpreted through a white male perspective.

An interesting exercise to do with Nerm's post is to change its author (a middle - aged, white American) by a native American addressing the white Europeans who came to this country and destroyed their lives, their way of living, their nature.

«Cilla Lee - Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire» follows a young biracial girl named Cilla Lee - Jenkins who is half - Chinese and half - White, like Tan herself.

The Senate Democrats, Stewart - Cousins noted, just this past May authored a white paper on college affordability (or the lack thereof), which was also a big deal in the 2016 presidential race — hence, Cuomo's appearance today with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made free tuition a cornerstone of his campaign.

David Mixner, author of Stranger Among Friends and himself a renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider, presents a vivid account of seven heroes of the gay rights movement who put their careers and lives on the line in their quest for equality.

The authors of the report were Henry Barbour (nephew of former RNC chairman and Mississippi governor Haley Barbour), Ari Fleischer, (former press secretary to George W. Bush), Zori Fonalledas (a stalwart Republican from Puerto Rico, national Republican committeeman Glenn McCall from South Carolina and Sally Bradshaw, who worked in Republican campaigns for decades and was in the first George Bush's White House.

Cuomo directed that the lights of the 408 - foot spire of the One World Trade Center be displayed in the blue and white colors of the Israeli flag Sunday evening, in honor of the late author, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who passed away over the weekend at 87.

«The gas which forms the major part of the insterstellar medium,» explains Jorge García Rojas, a researcher at the IAC who is the first author on the paper «can be observed because its atoms are ionized by the photons emitted by the hot stars embedded inside it (which can either very massive stars, or white dwarfs, which are also very hot).

Given the findings that blacks in general, and black professionals in particular, are likely to sleep less than their white counterparts, the authors said that more investigation is needed — both to help explain the disparities and to eventually help tailor interventions to improve sleep among those who aren't getting enough.

For example, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at most risk for HIV infection in the United States, yet within that subgroup, HIV seroprevalence is four times higher among black MSM than among white MSM, and virologic suppression is 50 percent lower, according to the authors.

In a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine, Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., senior author and first Sir Richard Doll Professor and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, indicates that black and white women ages 75 to 84 years who had an annual mammogram had lower 10 - year breast cancer mortality than corresponding women who had biennial or no / irregular mammograms.

But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»

«Hispanic mothers were much more likely to have a family member who breastfed than white or black mothers,» said Chelsea McKinney, researcher at the NorthShore University Health System and lead author on the project.

However, Randall White, an archaeologist at New York University in New York City, says that the paper's authors have set up a «straw person,» saying that he «know [s] no credible archaeologists who adhere to the stupid Neandertals view.»

The white paper authors likewise did not consult any of the private investors who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the commercial spaceflight industry based on this proprietary information.

The author interviewed three yoga instructors of color who each talk about the challenge of practicing yoga in predominantly white classes, and the power or relief they felt being in a room of people living similar experiences.

A study authored by Georges Halpern MD PhD, professor emeritus in the department of internal medicine at the University of California, discovered that people who 2 cups of yogurt a day for 4 months increased the level of gamma interferon, a protein that helps the white blood cells fight off disease.

I will say, I've read one or two Web authors who are very worried about arsenic in white rice (Lawrence Wilson MD for instance).

Ex cocaine addict Jeremy McConnell has been partying with wild pals who «rack up lines of suspicious white powder» and mock his dead mother, grim footage A Los Angeles court room is to hear a bitter legal dispute between Liz Crokin, 37, an author, and Mallory Hill, 59, her older ex-lover, over claims he gave

My guess is that the author of The Great Gatsby would have appreciated Adam McKay's film for its portrait of a fabulously famous iconoclast who remains a mystery to his friends and loved ones, or perhaps the sequence where Will Ferrell tenderly bottle - feeds a rubber baby great white shark.

Chicago born author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in reading pulp magazines circa early 1900's, felt he could easily produce better material and subsequently came up with a story of a white orphan boy, raised by apes, who grows up to become king of the jungle.

Screenwriter Ray Bradbury masterfully captures the allegorical elements in the Herman Melville original without sacrificing any of the film's entertainment value (Bradbury suffered his own «great white whale» in the form of director Huston, who sadistically ran roughshod over the sensitive author throughout the film).

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

Adapted very faithfully from the novel by Thomas Keneally (later author of Schindler's Ark), the film concerns a young «half - caste» in turn - of - the - century Australia who feels torn between the values and aspirations of white society on the one hand, and his Aboriginal roots on the other, and who thus takes to violence against his perceived white oppressors.

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK author Matthew Quick is behind the story, with SCHOOL OF ROCK writer Mike White penning the script, the story follows a group of four misfits who come together over their similar instances of pain and misfortune.

An easy target to be sure, the all - white, nearly all - Caucasian woman writer's seminar in Storytelling is presided over by an African - American Pulitzer Prize - winning author (Mr. Scott, played by Robert Wisdom) who isn't quite as mean as Harlan Ellison, though he tries.

The movie was written by Mike White, who you may remember as the author and star of «Chuck and Buck» (2000).

In stunning black - and - white and color photography, author Fox highlights the historic gown and the stars who wore them.»

Going to school outside of Harlem exposed me to the successful actors, authors, scientists, diplomats, and artists who were the parents of my white classmates; I was often invited to spend weekends at their homes.

During the same period, the authors interviewed 14 of 17 white men who had also been 1st graders in the original sample and came from similar neighborhood and family backgrounds as the black men.

With this comparison, the authors establish that white disadvantage and black disadvantage are not so different, following the work of political scientist Charles Murray, who has gone furthest in demonstrating that conditions depicted in Daniel P. Moynihan's 1965 study of the black family are today very much the conditions of the white poor, too.

[10] The authors then attempt to get closer to studying disparities in discipline conditional on student behavior by comparing outcomes for black and white students who participated in the same fight.

Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»

For publishing such a repetitive, homogeneous set of views (most of them penned by white and college - educated authors who can afford to write without pay).

Instead, they hired it out to Author Solutions (for a while owned by Pearson Penguin Random House) who white - labels their service.

New York Times bestselling author Stephen White brings back his popular character, psychologist Alan Gregory, to take on the sociopathic killer from White's first novel — who, many years later, has walked away from a mental hospital, hungry for revenge.

Author of the acclaimed picture - book biography Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (2014), Patricia Hruby Powell turns her attention to the true story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter with her nonfiction novel in verse Loving vs. Virginia, about a white man and a black woman who fell in love and married in a time when this was an illegal act.

-- Unlike those who are prejudiced against white authors or black authors, I don't have that bias.

Costs can be as inexpensive as $ 50 for someone who's just going to use stock art and does design on the side (check the Kindleboards Yellow Pages for a list of folks) to $ 500 - $ 1,000 for a custom illustration such as indie fantasy author David Alastair Hayden has for his Wrath of the White Tigress.

I know the fear of being accused of some evil intent exists because, as a white male aspiring author who lacks the shields of fame and wealth, I have these fears.

Adan — I like Andrew's post, though I get a little flinchy when arguments are boiled down to superlatives to advance the thesis (for example, I think few authors who have really studied the situation think of Amazon as a white knight riding in to save indie writers» bacon.

And, in this particular case: can a white author create a convincing portrait of what it feels like to be in the head of a man who experiences racism every day?

It is true n can be used as a Cross Culture experience or to show the reality of what these kids go through when leaving the Rez n excell in a White school, so Meridian Parents who band this book are ignorant and or racist for banning such a world class author and book that could help combat the Predijudice and stereo typing of Native American Indian kids in high school.