Sentences with phrase «with young men of color»

It's a defining moment for millions of our families, especially those with young men of color.

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Though overall transmission of the virus is down compared to its peak in the 1980s, it remains prevalent among certain groups including young men who have sex with men, especially young men of color.

In 2014, Shelton was tasked with setting up My Brother's Keeper, a corporate - and foundation - backed initiative launched by President Obama to address the «opportunity gaps» and «achievement gaps» faced in particular by boys and young men of color.

But when you target young men of color for no other reason than the color of their skin, we do have a problem with that,» he said.

«At the end of the day, we are left with asking the question: Why can't young men of color walk through the streets at certain times of night without police interaction?»

With the MBK movement's continued growth, we are showing more and more boys and young men of color the path to success in life.»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie made the Fellows program possible by championing MBK and working with the Legislature and the Executive to secure funding to support boys and young men of color.

«I am proud to have been present for today's historic announcement, and I look forward to working with the «My Brother's Keeper Alliance» to help young men of color get the help they need to succeed,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

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 cYoung 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 cyoung men of color.

«The courts have just affirmed facts that too many New Yorkers know to be true: under the Bloomberg Administration, with the acquiescence of Speaker Quinn, millions of innocent New Yorkers — overwhelmingly young men of color — have been illegally stopped.

«We've lost so many young men of color — young men who should still be alive and with us today — and it's clawing at us,» the mayor said at the Apollo Theater in Harlem after giving a speech at a World AIDS Day event.

This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ young persons of color.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

These apps also allow you to check over profiles of these cougars to check out their information such as their hair color, eye color, and what they like to do on a date with a younger man.

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The legal case divided the country along color lines in the same way as the O.J. Simpson trial, with African - Americans generally feeling that cops are too quick to shoot young black men, and most whites being inclined to give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt.

The state is looking to boost educational outcomes for young men of color with $ 9 million in grants as part of the My Brother's Keeper initiative.

We are also continuing our partnership with the Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition which is a coalition of L.A. community organizations that work towards a common agenda to improve the lives of young men of color.

As a teacher in a low - income, urban school with many young men of color as students, these facts disturbed me greatly, and I knew that the findings had profound implications for my school and my students.

This group includes working families, young men of color, marginalized girls and young women, immigrants and refugees, undocumented youth and adults, opportunity youth, low - skilled adults, and individuals with significant disabilities or other barriers to employment or advancement.

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Most of the slaves taken in England were sold to farmers in the wild northern isles, or to Ireland, or sent back across the sea to the Danish lands, but some, I learned, were taken to the big slave markets in Frankia and a few were shipped south to a place where there was no winter and where men with faces the color of scorched wood would pay good money for men and even better money for young women.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Marvel Entertainment and comiXology, Amazon's premier digital comic shopping & reading service, announced the next exclusive comiXology Originals digital comic series with the debut of Spidey: School's Out, a 6 - issue bi-weekly series written by John Barber, (best known for writing over 140 issues of Transformers), with art by Todd Nauck (Friendly Neighborhood Spider - Man, Young Justice), with colors by Rachelle Rosenberg, and covers by David Nakayama.

His musicians seem not to know what to do with themselves backstage, and a young man, dressed in a richly colored riding coat, strides across a tray of paints while strapped to a makeshift easel.

With her projects she empowers (young) men and women of color.

Self - consciously brooding and superficially melancholy, each modestly scaled, putridly colored oil - on - Masonite picture in «ACTUALIZED, and it feels so good» convincingly channels the imaginings of a disaffected young man with a spotty understanding of art history and a healthy investment in the lifestyle and aesthetics of psychedelia, metal,

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