Sentences with phrase «with racial inequality»

From a reluctant warrior fighting a battle in her own backyard, to a man coming to terms with the racial inequality of his youth, to a romance blooming out of adversity, Readers» Choice offers up favorite stories from the first four years of Fiction River.

Septima Clark's biography, vividly portrayed in Charron's dissertation, resonates deeply today, as we continue to struggle with racial inequality in education.

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When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

The percentage closely tracks with whites and Hispanics in multiracial congregations, 54 percent of whom believe racial inequality is structural.

Along with that, the NFL sounds like it's going to offer some kind of compromise, some tacit acknowledgement of the social issues — league owners and Roger Goodell noticeably don't directly refer to police brutality or racial inequality — either with a window of time and / or a financial commitment to various causes.

There are plenty of other «developed» countries with racial and social inequality and poverty - related health issues.

This budget fails to deal with inequality, racial justice and democracy.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito assembled a coalition of female activists today to launch the Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at young men of color.

While de Blasio has taken up many important social issues — racial profiling, early childhood education, housing, and others — it remains to be seen if he can with the limited power of a mayor really affect the issue of economic inequality, that is the overwhelming power of capital in the world's preeminent financial center.

From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York City.»

Black people in the USA live with the pain of racial and economic inequality every day.

Major forces behind this are racial segregation and discrimination, income gaps and social inequality, coupled with a politically powerless and naïve populace unable to advocate for itself.

2014 was replete with social unrest to protest police brutality and racial inequality.

The racial disparity in low birth weight was greatest among women living in areas with high UV exposure and greater income inequality.

2017 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: With a conventional story of friendship and racial inequality, «Mudbound» is a visually poetic experience and reaffirms the genius that was shown in Dee Rees «inaugural narrative «Pariah» six years ago.

Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African - American.

That Black Panther was so successful and has a story that unapologetically deals with themes like racial inequality, colonization, prejudice, and pride is a glimpse of what Marvel Studios can do with the power it has.

After his time as an American spy, when he witnessed black suffering all across the world, N'Jobu wanted to arm those that were suffering from racial inequality with the technology that Wakanda had used to be an invincible, unconquerable land for centuries.

When Matt Damon's Paul Safranek undergoes the procedure and moves to «Leisureland,» he discovers, with the aid of a disabled Vietnamese dissident shrunk against her will, that the racial and class inequalities of the normal - sized world persist — and are perhaps even intensified — in this eco-friendly micro-utopia.

Linked with a long history of religious and ethnic intolerance, racial and social inequality, and severe national tensions, diversity has undoubtedly bred hatred, prejudice, discrimination, and violence in some people over the course of history, says Senior Lecturer Todd Pittinsky in his new book, Us Plus Them.

April 29: Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality with New York University Associate Professor Patrick Sharkey; Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein, University of California - Berkeley School of Law; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson, director of Harvard Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

Of the three, Vox has shown the most interest in K — 12 happenings, with a mix of the serious («How Racial Inequality in Education Persists 60 Years after Brown v. Board of Education») and the silly («Why a Florida Lawmaker Thinks Common Core Tests Will Make Kids Gay»).

Substantive course work highlighting racial, socioeconomic, and educational inequalities across the life course combined with my yearlong participatory action research course has provided me with a framework for conducting rigorous research while simultaneously empowering others to make impactful change within their respective communities.

There is nothing wrong with this per se, as segregation does lead to inequalities, and those inequalities (in access to good teachers, safe facilities, educational resources, etc.) tend to disadvantage poorer students and racial minorities...

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

He served as the first Research Director for the Minority Students Achievement Network (a national consortium of school districts working to address the racial disparities in students» outcomes), working with district leaders to study patterns of racial inequality in their schools and enact practices to reduce such inequalities.

A second forthcoming book Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Persists in Good Schools (with Amanda Lewis, Oxford University Press) examines race and educational opportunities and outcomes in multiracial suburban high schools.

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At 17, I was not empowered to challenge the low expectations and racial inequality that I was confronted with.

In the years since Dylan wrote that lyric, the nation has continued to deal with various degrees of racial and gender inequality.

Scholars now describe HOLC's property evaluations and risk management procedures, along with the practices of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration, and U.S. Housing Authority, as significant contributions to the continuation of racial segregation, intergenerational poverty, and enduring wealth gap between white Americans and minorities in the U.S. Mapping Inequalities provides visitors an idea of what housing policies were like in the New Deal era and how these guidelines have since affected the interaction between wealth and poverty in contemporary America.

Through her penetrative, forthright, and at times humorous touch, her work subtly engaged with political and social issues, including gender, racial inequality, and labor struggles.

The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America's history of racial inequality.

Having lost overall population and remaining mired in economic inequality along racial lines, New Orleans still grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The curatorial strategy thus sets up two boundaries for the work in the show: the colors blue and black as formal elements on the one side, and associations with the colors black and blue — including race, bruising as a metaphor, and the specific kind of suffering resulting from racism and racial inequality — on the other.

Indeed, some of Basquiat's most bracing work was political, with particular reference to the racial prejudices and inequality that is still rampant in America today.

Instead Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities» police departments, and death.

Diane Victor A printmaker and etcher by craft, Diane Victor produces elegiac portraits that speak to the political inequalities and social complexities of South Africa; racial anxiety and sexual repression remain common themes with her works.

A tour of the show's paintings should include the Fine Art Society, where you'll find three canvases by Walter Sickert — most outstandingly the war - themed 1914 «Tipperary» — along with lively floral still lifes, all from the 1920s, by Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood and William Nicholson, Britain's genius of light At Jonathan Boos, the centerpiece is «The Pigeons,» from 1948 - 49 by the Magic Realist Henry Koerner, which encompasses income inequality, childhood fear, racial strife and romance, all on a pink marble stair shown to be made of brick.

Through her choice of subjects, her work was engaged with issues related to gender and racial inequality, family dynamics, labor struggles, and violence.

They have since expanded their focus and methods of protest to racial and LGBT inequalities through their work with installations, billboard campaigns and work with Amnesty International.

Growing up in a neighborhood with very few African - American families, he quickly became aware of the racial inequalities that plagued the present - day political and social landscape of America.

NY2NO works in solidarity with those most affected by the social, racial, and economic inequalities.

Poverty is at record levels, with great spikes along racial lines (10 % + higher than the national average) and for young families with children (incredibly 37 %) as is wealth inequality.

In March 2005, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also identified that the extent of inequality in health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples raises issues of compliance with Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.