Sentences with phrase «women and people of color on»

Before it became a trend, DuVernay was using her talent to create inclusive work that presents women and people of color on the screen.

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The study argues that specialized incubators — those especially for women or people of color — are not the answer, on the grounds that these targeted incubators and accelerators don't provide the same opportunities for entrepreneurs to network within their industries.

What attracted him to Kapor, in particular, is its emphasis on empowering minority communities: Between 2015 and 2017, the firm says it will have invested $ 40 million in startups that give women and people of color better access to technology and business opportunities.

When Banks looked at the above diversity data for senior executives at 16 Fortune 500 companies, she was careful to point out that it need not be a depressing reminder that women and people of color — and other marginalized groups that aren't counted on the EEO - 1 Report — struggle to make it to the upper echelons of corporate America.

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.

On our team, 70 percent are people of color and 24 percent are women.

I can not and will not speak on behalf of all people of color, nor all black people, nor all women, or any other people group of which I am a member.

There are many chefs deserving of profiles on bonappetit.com, and we have chosen to feature primarily women, many of them people of color, first and foremost because they're extremely talented people we think our readers need to know about.

«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.»

Taking steps to address the growing income divide in our state, including targeted policies that address the disproportionate impact on people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos, as well as LGBTQ people, women and youth.

«Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 hour by 2018 in New York City is a historic victory that will have a profound impact on the lives of nearly one and a half million working families — largely women and people of color,» said Deborah Axt, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, in a statement.

In his address, Cuomo said tipping disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that it subjects tipped workers to higher rates of sexual harassment than workers who aren't reliant on tips.

«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.

He has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the experiences of women, people of color, and LGBT persons in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Other issues for the panelists included isolation (particularly in departments where they were either the only woman or person of color), having their work on race and gender taken seriously, and balance.

But when I learned Summers thought there might be a «genetic» explanation for a lack of scientific capability on the part of women and people of color (especially African - Americans), I began to think twice about whether Harvard is the place for me.

The time is gone where it was adequate for academic institutions, government, or industrial organizations to simply place a token woman or person of color in a subordinate position within the organization, and then pat itself on the back for having done so.

He has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the experiences of women, people of color, and LGBT persons in the science, technology, engineering, and...

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.

Discussions of mechanisms for allowing victims of sexual harassment to come forward, the drive for greater inclusion of women and persons of color, and the need for clear guidelines for behavior on film and TV sets were hot topics across the daylong series of panels.

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.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

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.

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.

New York City announced new initiatives focusing on inclusion of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals seeking filmmaking and screenwriting opportunities.

All that really amounts to in the end is harsher judgment on women and people of color when it comes to choosing Oscar favorites.

... * Ed Lachman colors of Manhattan streets, 1977 — Wonderstruck... * On Molly Bloom not being Irish: preposterous dialog between Molly (Jessica Chastain) and Downey (Chris O'Dowd), Molly's Game... * Dunkirk: pale hand of a man drowning on boat... * «They're no longer persons, only body parts» — In the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous moutOn Molly Bloom not being Irish: preposterous dialog between Molly (Jessica Chastain) and Downey (Chris O'Dowd), Molly's Game... * Dunkirk: pale hand of a man drowning on boat... * «They're no longer persons, only body parts» — In the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous mouton boat... * «They're no longer persons, only body parts» — In the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous mouton snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous mouth.

Crucially, the participants have committed to staying involved in the project and will enlist an ever - growing group of advocates to work inside their organizations on articulating the business case for making changes in culture and practices to hire more women and people of color.

Hollywood has only grown more dependent on these big blockbusters, which are rarely ever directed by women and people of color, in part because studios keep rewarding filmmakers — like Singer — known for erratic workplace behavior or worse.

The writers and director of that movie are also people of color, and the film's cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, was the first woman nominated for an Oscar in that category, for her work on «Mudbound.»

(One additional note on Best Supporting Actress to segue into surprises: Mary J. Blige is not only the first person ever nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song in the same year, but the first actor Oscar - nominated for a film directed by a woman of color, Mudbound's Dee Rees.)

«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.

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.

We strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBT authors.

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.

In Topple's statement on the recent controversies around sexual abuse especially in Hollywood, the company asserts that, «Women, people of color, queer people and their allies can use the power of story and voice to change the world.»

It seems to be based on an archaic notion that women and people of color don't play video games and don't consume «nerdy media».

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

Thomas's work both depends on this rich context and smartly subverts it by claiming its own space within a tradition that has largely excluded, demeaned, and caricatured persons of color and women.

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized.

This shift reflects a new emphasis on correcting the blind spots and biases of the past; the purported universality of the white male artist's perspective is no longer a given, but is now seen as a form of oppressive hegemony, obscuring the contributions and innovations of women, people of color, and artists working outside Western art - world centers.

For us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Sackler Center by talking about what a lot of people perceive as a failure, feels really pertinent to the conversations going on now between women of color and white women.

According to a major report on art industry sexism that ARTnews published earlier this year, only seven percent of the 410 works from MoMA's permanent collection currently on display are by women, and even fewer by people of color.

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The event recognizes the contributions made by women of color in business, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, government, and public service and the impact they have made on the lives of people throughout the State of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts communities.

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Critics of using credit histories for employment purposes said the practice can have a disparate and discriminatory impact on protected groups, including people of color, women, and the disabled.

On March 27, Trump revoked orders that required companies with federal contracts to follow workplace protections against harassment and discrimination of women and people of color.