Sentences with phrase «with women and people of color»

But Moonlight «s success aside, the Oscar's don't just skew disproportionally white, the type of stories that the Academy tends to recognize often center a straight white male, with women and people of color acting as side characters.

Hollywood's getting a little better at telling stories that incorporate more diverse perspectives, with women and people of color getting more opportunities both in front of the camera and behind it.

«Insurgent» also has one of the most diverse casts seen in a blockbuster film, with women and people of color playing roles both central and peripheral.

Not exact matches

We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

With help from Citi Community Development, Village Capital recently hosted three pitch competitions, each designed to show venture capitalists and other investors that they really are missing out by not investing in women and people of color.

As more companies begin to deliver remarkable products and experiences to women, people of color, and other minority groups that have largely been ignored or underserved in the past, they are responding with their support and loyalty.

Be you a man, woman, person of color, trans, someone with bad credit, someone with no credit — if you can log on to a computer and push the right buttons, you can send money just like anyone else.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions.»

«If D.C. does get chosen, we have some real issues with how Amazon does business, in terms of fair labor, equitable hiring, and equitable practices for people of color and women in particular,» Sneed said.

Dēmos is an Equal Opportunity Employer — people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

«Demographic shifts for entrepreneurship and funding are taking place now, however, we're still faced with the daunting statistic that nearly 90 % of venture capital is given to someone who isn't a women or a person of color.»

One obvious way to offset the clubbiness endemic to Silicon Valley's investor class would be to replace the «guts» of white men with those of women and people of color.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Have you forgotten we have waaaayy more women and people of color representing us, so I'm pretty sure we are just fine with women in power.

But when the snubs consistently and disproportionately affect women and people of color over the old white male guard, one is forced to reckon with the fact that for all its chest thumping, Hollywood remains decades behind the times.

Working with IJM, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship before that, Toyama - Szeto has intentionally built support networks among her colleagues, friends, and fellow women of color — people to advise her, pray for her, and hold her accountable.

«This week I've read messages from some immigrants, women, and people of color in evangelical communities with profound sadness, and I've also heard from evangelicals who have celebrated the election results.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

He's driving away Latinos and other people of color, young people, women, the disabled, the majority of Americans with a college education... not exactly a strategy to grow the party's base of support.

«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» Murphy said in a statement this morning.

And the Senate Democrats themselves issued a statement last month condemning Felder for sticking with the GOP, saying through a spokesman that «any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values.&raqAnd the Senate Democrats themselves issued a statement last month condemning Felder for sticking with the GOP, saying through a spokesman that «any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values.&raqand our shared American values.»

«And he's always been a vocal opponent of discrimination of any kind, whether it's against people of color, women, gays, lesbians, and transgender people, immigrants, seniors or people with disabilities.&raqAnd he's always been a vocal opponent of discrimination of any kind, whether it's against people of color, women, gays, lesbians, and transgender people, immigrants, seniors or people with disabilities.&raqand transgender people, immigrants, seniors or people with disabilities.»

With the Board's five freshmen members, the largest number of people of color in the Board's history, and the groundbreaking majority of women, it's truly a new era for the Board and for Westchester.»

Cuomo says the tipped wage system inhibits workers who earn tips from coming forward with concerns about exploitation and harassment, and it disproportionately affects women and people of color.

Cappelli, 59, said he was concerned that the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), Ms. Savino's breakaway group which shares power with the GOP in the Senate, was preventing other women and people of color from serving in leadership roles in the Senate.

But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.

«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

«The face of Albany has changed dramatically with people of color approaching 50 % and women topping at 25 % of the legislature,» she wrote.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said: «The Emerging Managers bill intends to bring our State procurement process into the 21st Century by removing barriers that have historically prevented women and persons of color from reaching full economic parity with respect to contracting opportunities in this State.

The stigma associated with prejudice against women and people of color seems to transfer from one group to another, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Women, people of color, and people with disabilities, who responded to the survey, reported being stigmatized by their gender, race, or their physical condition in addition to their LGBT status.

The finding prompted the authors to launch plans to establish a forum on diversity and inclusion that includes leadership roles for LGBT individuals, people of color, women, and people with disabilities — and recognizes the role of overlapping identities.

other muslim women of color all around the world are being discriminated JUST for choosing to cover their hair with a turban... and this idiot white trash of a man is making it a FASHION STATEMENT and people are ACTUALLY buying it?

The objectification merges with the heat of the desert and the fiery colors of the house, crystallizing the sort of primal horniness that's the bedrock of male (and female) resentment of wealthy and beautiful people, especially women.

Like Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman, Coogler's comic book movie will no doubt inspire the under - represented with its powerful depiction of a person of color who is not only a superhero, but also a leader who preaches empathy, understanding, and sincerity over cynicism and hatred.

With a passion for increasing the profiles of women and people of color in film, Domino has worked with the New Orleans Film Society to launch Emerging Voices, a mentoring initiative for people of coWith a passion for increasing the profiles of women and people of color in film, Domino has worked with the New Orleans Film Society to launch Emerging Voices, a mentoring initiative for people of cowith the New Orleans Film Society to launch Emerging Voices, a mentoring initiative for people of color.

The good news is that Isaacs has backed up her words with action, introducing 683 new academy members (46 percent women and 41 percent people of color) into Academy voting membership.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

As Deadline Hollywood reports, the streak of movies with people of color and women in the lead finishing at No. 1 at the box office will end this weekend as Steven Spielberg's action - packed «Ready Player One,» an adaptation of Ernest Cline's best - seller starring Tye Sheridan, is expected to top the list.

Let's talk about the vast art trove we've lost by not giving women, people of color, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ + community opportunities — let's talk about that loss for all of us in art,» she continued.

The hard truth is that there have been 17 Marvel movies (including Spider - Man: Homecoming, Marvel's joint venture with Sony), and none of them have had a woman or person of color as the titular or central character.

It boasted impressive stats related to diversity, with 42 percent of the films directed by women and 40 percent by people of color.

«Dr. Effie Jones was a stellar career educator, who used her considerable talents to maximize opportunities and successes for students and emerging system leaders, with a focus on significantly augmenting the senior leadership pool with more woman and people of color,» Sherman said.

Instead, «What you want is to give folks an entry point» into the pain or difficulty that can come along with living as a person of color, a queer person, a woman, a disabled person, a refugee — or anyone whose experiences are marginalized and different from your own.

Because #WeNeedDiverseBooks and I would love to prove dead wrong all the people who think a story with a woman of color on the cover can't sell.

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