Sentences with phrase «white faces of the people»

Always an outsider, then, and the often blank, white faces of the people in his paintings may represent a surprising distance between the workers and himself.

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We The People, the White House's official petition site, «provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.»

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

At Wolfprint 3D's white egg - shaped pod in a suburban shopping mall in Estonia's capital city Tallinn, six cameras and a touch screen allow people to create a high - resolution 3D face and enter the increasingly personalized world of virtual reality.

A lot of people like the book for its insights into what the white working class sees in Donald Trump and his promises to restore American greatness in the face of malevolent outsiders.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder blocks in an Oklahoma City pond, but the prosecutor handling the case said Thursday the killings are not believed to be racially motivated.

I think one reason fewer black people join the LDS church is because they see a lot of white faces and assume (prejudice?

Black organizations originated with white people by way of segregation and Jim Crow... we simply found that these member only clubs were beneficial to us in the face of white hostility and white «member - only - ship»

The poll basically breaks white Americans down into three categories: white people who believe they face discrimination and have personally experienced it (NPR spoke with an individual who fell into this category, although he struggled to think of specific examples for some reason); white people who believe they face discrimination but have not personally experienced it (NPR also spoke with a man who fell into this group, who hastened to say he believed other racial and ethnic groups faced discrimination as well), and white people who don't believe they face any discrimination at all.

Fifty - five percent of white Americans believe white people face discrimination, although less than 20 percent say they've ever personally experienced discrimination.

«Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face - to - face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America.

In Dallas, Bishop TD Jakes draws all backgrounds of people, and yes, there are many white faces in his congregation on Sunday.

You discover that your face is that of a White person again.

This approach awakens awareness of the problems faced by minorities and nurtures the emergence of a person - respecting White identity based on self - esteem.8

To be clear, other than the size of the loan — which is way out of the normal range for a typical Apollo loan — nothing on its face suggests anything nefarious... but at the very least, there are some ethical questions with Kushner using the White House as a place to have meetings with people that then turn around and invest in Kushner's private business ventures.

Though we won't be surrounded by the familiar faces to which you've become accustomed in Premiership games, all these people have come to cheer on the team that wear the Red and White of Arsenal.

He was asked by Channel 4 journalist Michael Crick why a brochure emblazoned with the phrase «changing the face of politics» featured only images of white people.

In that case, the person who was caught would likely face some sort of charges, while the White House would simply deny knowledge and assert that person had acted on their own.

We are pleased that the social care needs of people facing the end of life are recognised in today's white paper.

The IRR is not comparing black and white death rates, but there is evidence to show that because of stereotyping - for example expectations that black people will be irrational, inordinately strong or angry — they face a disproportionate level of force.

New genome - sequencing research suggests white European people with two copies of variant forms of MC1R, a gene linked to pale skin and red hair, have faces that appear up to two years older than those who are the same age but don't have both copies.

Results show that direct stimulation of the entorhinal area successfully improved hippocampal - dependent memory across a wide range of memory tasks (verbal recall, spatial navigation, face - name memory, and person / object recognition) with stimulation site (entorhinal white / gray) as the critical determinant of subsequent memory performance independent of antiepileptic medication (on / off), side (left / right) or type (macro / micro) of stimulation.

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!

In my book, A Black Girls Guide to Dating White Men, I mentioned that I don't like the idea of internet dating and I'd much rather meet people face to face.

It's racist, no matter how it's justified the dating site Where White People Meet It was after sending a picture of my face to another person on A white partner doesn't stand in the way of one's ability to be passionate about black isWhite People Meet It was after sending a picture of my face to another person on A white partner doesn't stand in the way of one's ability to be passionate about black iswhite partner doesn't stand in the way of one's ability to be passionate about black issues.

Even if one makes allowances for the comic book aspects of the story and the required suspension of disbelief, there is something ludicrous, to put it mildly, about the assertion that seeing an African king possessed of superhuman strength and agility back - flipping across the screen speaks in some profound way to the situation facing the masses of people, black, white or any other epidermal pigmentation.

(Perhaps it's a mirror image of the difficulties Justin Simien's «Dear White People» faced finding distribution in the U.K.) As far as I know, Kureishi is heterosexual, but he uses gayness as a battering ram against the prejudices of Thatcher's England, as well as the narrow - mindedness of his own diaspora.

Producers Caroline Baron — «Capote,» «Monsoon Wedding» Effie T. Brown — «Dear White People,» «Real Women Have Curves» Terence Chang — «Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,» «Face / Off» Wyck Godfrey — «The Fault in Our Stars,» «Twilight» Jeremy Kleiner — «Selma,» «12 Years a Slave» Pamela Koffler — «Still Alice,» «Hedwig and the Angry Inch» Gina Kwon — «Camp X-Ray,» «Me and You and Everyone We Know» Dan Lin — «The Lego Movie,» «Sherlock Holmes» Eric Newman — «RoboCop,» «Children of Men» Bruna Papandrea — «Wild,» «All Good Things» Lydia Dean Pilcher — «Cutie and the Boxer,» «The Darjeeling Limited» Rebecca Yeldham — «On the Road,» «The Kite Runner»

The crew is rounded out by Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny and the achingly vulnerable Tessa Thompson — so brash and indomitable in films like Dear White People and Creed, yet here so delicate I kept hoping she'd turn around and go home instead of facing whatever horrors lie ahead.

Producers Caroline Baron — «Capote,» «Monsoon Wedding» Effie T. Brown — «Dear White People,» «Real Women Have Curves» Terence Chang — «Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,» «Face / Off» Wyck Godfrey — «The Fault in Our Stars,» «Twilight» Jeremy Kleiner — «Selma,» «12 Years a Slave» Pamela Koffler — «Still Alice,» «Hedwig and the Angry Inch»

Her world premieres include Party People by Universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Man — A Complex Declaration of Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival / Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Angela's Mixtape by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), Bus and Family Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!

He goes on to talk about the challenge to survive in this society in the face of a «patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism and state power,» and «a structure of domination not accountable to the people affected by it.»

Meanwhile, as one of the relatively few minority faces in the classroom, I was routinely called on to serve as the white person's lens on the Negro experience.

Ransome does not shy away from including unpleasant pictures of the time, especially the angry looks on the faces of white people.

Lange's compelling black - and - white photographs, exquisitely reproduced, provide the drama in this biography of the famous artist who showed the nation the faces of individual people caught up in the great events of the time.

Part of the Change Makers series, this title introduces 12 remarkable young people from Joan of Arc to Ruby Bridges, as well as lesser - known names like Ryan White, who put a young face on AIDS early in the epidemic.

I'd like to think we face the world with open arms, and the America I grew up in (born in 1950, so I'm close to Martin's age) felt open to immigration for all people in a way that it no longer does with the rise to power of a white supremacist, nationalistic political movement.

But more than just the story of the Jamaicans who came looking for a new life in the Mother Country, she uses her understanding of the white society to show the adjustments and problems faced by the English people whom those Jamaicans came to live amongst.

Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet - faced, gray - and - white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death.

To help encourage people in an already exceptionally crowded city adopt one of those 30 million dogs the creative team of photographer Amol Jadhav and art director / retoucher Pranav Bhide borrowed from Rubin's vase, a famous black and white drawing that either looks like two faces or a vase depending on if the viewer focuses on the black or white areas.

It's standard protocol of how well - intentioned White people organize things: all White - male panel on Children's Literature at Book Con (which blew up in their faces and began the movement, WeNeedDiverseBooks), all - White travel and food blogging panels at AWP, the ubiquitous Whiteness of TBEX.

Beginning at 7:00 in the morning on March 9, 2018, each three - person canoe team will face four days of white water rapids, fickle currents, and portages to be the first to cross the finish line in Belize City.

Last week some 1300 starships left from a hastily converted private airfield in Portland, ME carrying a population of roughly 1.3 billion of the whitest people to have ever lived on the face of the Earth.

Meanwhile, his inclusion sends a clear message to minority artists and art viewers that while the Whitney is welcoming on its face, the perspectives of people of color are subject to mediation by the white academic establishment.

In this piece the mass of people and signs sink into abstraction as they become of a sea of faces afloat with vacant white forms.

IT IS AS PLAIN as the nose on one's face — and, for many, equally impossible to see — that the history of Euro - American painting has been created by and for white people.

«The United States of America and the People's Republic of China have a critical role to play in combating global climate change, one of the greatest threats facing humanity,» said a White House statement.

Our law firm defends people facing all types of allegations, including drug charges, white collar crime charges, accusations of violent crimes and drunk driving.

It is important to understand that persons involved in white collar crimes often face multiple counts of the same crime.