Sentences with phrase «white community on»

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«The Arctic situation now goes beyond its original inter-Arctic States or regional nature, having a vital bearing on the interests of States outside the region and the interests of the international community as a whole, as well as on the survival, the development, and the shared future for mankind,» the white paper said.

Our local partners reported on how hate incidents affect communities across the country: anti-Semitic graffiti in Phoenix, Islamophobia in Minneapolis, racist vandalism and homophobic threats in Seattle, white supremacist activity at a California university, racist harassment and vandalism in Boston, racism in the workplace in New Orleans, and hate incidents throughout Florida.

Both letters, only one of which was delivered, congratulated the candidates on their victories and affirmed the intelligence community's commitment to serving the White House.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

Jorge Lima, the Executive Director of the LIBRE Initiative, said that in addition to working with both chambers of Congress and the White House on a bill, his organization would mobilize its grassroots efforts to hammer home their principles to elected officials and individual communities.

On Monday, Rippon said he would likely boycott any visit by Team USA to the White House in order to support the LGBTQ community.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that Trump was easily convinced by his advisers and Republican lawmakers to release the memo, despite the White House's concerns that it would precipitate a showdown between the president and the intelligence community, including the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who has asked the president to prevent the memo's release.

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

Wink, which also makes a popular home hub, avoided commenting on Clapper's comments, and said of its security policies that it conducts «outreach to the «white hat» security researcher community, and regular independent security analysis.»

Lester Holt reports on Officer Bobby White of the Gainesville Police Department, who used his fame from a 2016 viral video to help police around the country better connect with the communities they serve.

She also serves on and is a past chair of the White County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Arkansas Community Foundation.

GFI is «committed to radical transparency,» 43 taking steps such as detailing their research and progress on their blog, sharing white papers, and distributing monthly reports from each department to interested community members.

Even more disturbing, an updated report by the Center for Responsible Lending on payday lending in Colorado found that even in affluent communities of color, the likelihood of a nearby payday store is greater than in low - income, predominantly White areas.

He signed an executive order creating a «White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative» that will, among other things, make recommendations on policies that affect faith - based and community programs.

It's a story based on events not in the deep South, but in the Pennsylvania suburb of Levittown, when William and Daisy Myers moved their family into the all - white community and were rocked by riots, threats and violence that lasted throughout the summer of 1957.

The bottom stratum of the black community has compelling problems that can no longer be blamed solely on white racism, that will not yield to protest marches or court orders, and that force us to confront fundamental failures in lower - class black urban society.

As time went on, the black preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

Churches tend to take on the cultural influences and traditions of its members and community, but how many predominantly white churches own a white identity and name its culture as being white?

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

The election cycle happily fading into the rear - view mirror brought the sorry condition of many white working - class communities to national attention; no one tells the story of one part of that world, its strengths and its pathologies, better than J.D. Vance in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)-- a tough and occasionally hilarious book that also suggests, inadvertently, an enormous evangelical failure on the part of both Protestants and Catholics.

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the new pastor, King, was drafted to lead the African - American community in a boycott of public transportation.

The tornado dropping out of the sky, the immersion of a person in water, words spoken by a person in a white alb on Sunday - these have no meaning apart from the value given to them by the community and its individual members.

Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily focus on youth and education.

At the same time, when we have insisted on calling ourselves feministas, we have been rejected by many in the Hispanic community because they consider feminism a preoccupation of white, Anglo women.

A paramount example is mother - daughter advice: Black mothers have passed on wisdom for survival — in the white world, in the black community, and with men — for as long as anyone can remember.

I grew up in a very predominately white religious community in the mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to high school with / knew growing up through religious happenings on facebook.

Located on the pier with expansive views of Drayton Harbor and the landscape of White Rock, British Columbia in the distance, each restaurant is reminiscent of the historic cannery that sustained the community for nearly 80 years.

For those indulging in the Red, White and Que Burger, Walk - On's recommends pairing it with a Community Porch Breeze Southern Sweet Watermelon Iced Tea for the perfect combination of summer flavors.

They all hitched rides on the cotton wagons, bouncing about in the white fluff, and the community was so enchanted that it arranged a big fish fry at the cotton gin to welcome Edwards» girls properly.

The IPGL is being formed, says White, because: 1) many pro golfers would welcome a permanent base with guaranteed income, a retirement plan, limited travel and opportunities for «star status» in an adopted community (e.g., Ron Santo is from Seattle, but Chicago is where his name sells pizza); 2) most golf fans never see live golf competition except on television, and even on TV they are increasingly unable to identify with the players because of the abundance of faceless — meaning what's the name of the guy who won this week?

NOTE: From this day forward, I insist that across the various KOPTALK ® communities and platforms, that on transfer deadline day, as well as bantering about things like the Babel Copter and Jim White, we will now ask «Has Martin turned up yet?».

I loathe the way that «journalists» like Nancy Grace harp on every missing child story (missing white child, anyway) and how most parents in my own community give cell phones to their second graders.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, D, acknowledged on Monday no community is immune to the type of white nationalist demonstration that led to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Medicaid is the tool under Obamacare that is being used to plan for covering 20 - 30 million of the uninsured.The Supremes will strike a major blow against universal health care coverage if the mandate and Medicaid expansion of struck down.In addition, a negative decision on Obamacare will affect the closing of the Medicare Part D donut hole; the ability of youth remaining on parents» policies until age 26; and the funding of hundreds of community health centers.That is a lot of power being given to 5 unelected, lifetime tenure, white men.

I watched in Birmingham 40 years ago the full horror of the then «Immigration Debate» as it impacted on the Asian community in Birmingham where I lived and the impact on the white working class in the trade unions where I was active.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

«We are seeing that Medicaid is expanding with more usage than was previously thought in the white community in Erie County, and also that many recipients are working to pay the bills and put food on the table but still need help from the Medicaid system to provide for their families» healthcare needs.

In an interview after the debate, Kramer said the community could not move forward on the merger issue until they approached it on common ground, rather than as adversaries of white versus black, county versus city.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

«The right to peacefully protest is a cornerstone of democracy and in these uncertain times, we are facing unprecedented attacks on our immigrant community from the White House,» he added.

Community activists and clergy members will gather at White Park on East 106th Street in East Harlem, then walk in silence to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street.

«Many things have happened in this country since then, the rise of white supremacy as represented by Charlottesville, the massacre in Las Vegas and here at home, just last week, the appearance of white supremacist literature on the Westchester Community College campus,» Larchmont resident Jenny Geer said.

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan comCommunity United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan comcommunity leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.

New York Botanical Garden President Gregory Long and long - time community garden activist Karen Washington were guests at the White House on Friday, where Michelle Obama «presented the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Services to The New York Botanical Garden and nine other cultural institutions.

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

«The White House fiscal blueprint for 2019 is more like a battle plan of attack on seniors, students and communities,» Higgins said.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced today that Allan Fong, thirty - nine, was sentenced in White Plains City Court on September 28, 2017 to a one year conditional discharge and fifty hours of community service after pleading guiltWHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced today that Allan Fong, thirty - nine, was sentenced in White Plains City Court on September 28, 2017 to a one year conditional discharge and fifty hours of community service after pleading guiltWhite Plains City Court on September 28, 2017 to a one year conditional discharge and fifty hours of community service after pleading guilty to: