Sentences with phrase «works as a black»

A standout amid contemporary painting at MoMA, Rashid Johnson for one works as a black artist in black, with traces in thick layers of soap and wax.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

As she worked at a startup in 2015, she raised more than $ 9,000 through Indiegogo for an avocado - and - oil deep conditioner for black women with frizzy or unruly curls.

Shop for one in a «neutral» work color such as black, navy blue or gray so that you can wear it with many different pants.

That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.»

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

Today that path runs through Salesforce, where Stevenson works for Prophet as a program coordinator — and recently showed his poise by leading a panel discussion in front of the Congressional Black Caucus.

«His work as a cosmologist and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary.

«The way black women, in particular, have been constructed due to racist ideas, puts them in a very precarious position in the work environment, particularly as they try to ascend the ladder,» he told Fortune.

But for him, commercial assignments weren't as satisfying as his first love, black and white photography, and his personal work.

Sueing, who is the global co-chair for the Black Googler Network, has also worked on Google Takeout, the tool that makes it simple for users to download their data, such as their emails, photos, and documents, off of Google's services.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

Just as he slammed down on them in his work in Chicago when he gentrified the city's black neighborhood, making billions of dollars in real estate gains for the Pritzker and Crown families.

Johnson has long been a powerful influence in the entertainment industry, starting with her work as founding partner of Black Entertainment Television.

As a policy - focused, but non-partisan, organization The Vancouver Board of Trade has worked to positively engage both of the leading candidates for mayor and council, noted Black.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

I explained how these families are largely working class, black and Latino families who find their kids and loved ones caught in a maze of broken systems and structures as soon as they make a bad decision or mistake in judgment.

Richard Dawkins began his famous book The God Delusion (Black Swan) by writing: «If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists by the time they put it down».

We could discuss that work that is being done in response to the Holocaust, that which is being done in the horizon of world religions, that which is being done as an expression of the experience of oppression, as by Blacks, and so forth.

It's easier (and I find the tendency in myself almost every day) to fall back onto the black and white rules that we're often offered as answer to our struggles instead of doing the hard work of encountering our own desires and longings in relationship with God and others.

lol You won't sound as dumb, especially if you happen to be a leader if you tell «your people» that you at least know about the mysterious instead of just being real and admitting you really have no idea how the earth, those twinkling lights in the black sky and the sun all work.

In some neighborhoods, one in three young black males is working as a «snitch,» forced to testify against friends and family under the threat of prosecution.

The fiscal integrity of the black church and community depend on biblical ethical principles such as working together, loving one another and caring for the poor.

As she puts it, «That blacks did not, in an important sense, cause their current predicament does not preclude charging them with alleviating it if nothing else will work.»

The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, hard work, deferred gratification and self - reliance have resulted in the high crime rates, the increasing number of unwed mothers, and the relatively uncompetitive academic performances of black youth.

Most of these were workers stuck in part time jobs, and women were more likely to be among the working poor, as were blacks and Hispanics (www.bls.gov).

A white male process theologian, for example, working (as most do) within the institutional structure of a North American college or university, simply can not become a feminist theologian or do black theology.

Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference between his work and Tolkien's: «I think ultimately the battle between good and evil is weighed within the individual human heart, not necessarily between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.

As long as they can keep preying on these hard working educated single black women to keep them in business they will always be hypocrites in these Mega churcheAs long as they can keep preying on these hard working educated single black women to keep them in business they will always be hypocrites in these Mega churcheas they can keep preying on these hard working educated single black women to keep them in business they will always be hypocrites in these Mega churches.

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmas.

Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods, ones that characterize the black women's literary tradition — a tradition now in full flower through the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde.

I begin here with an examination of James Cone's work as highly influential and indicative of the direction Black liberation theology took, then turn to key representatives of Latin American theology of liberation.

This insight moved Williams to advance the possibility that in black women's identification with Jesus as surrogate Lord they risk being «passive to the oppressive operation of surrogacy in our lives» and «oblivious to forces at work influencing us to stand in somebody else's place, to be at the beckon of somebody else's call and to forever service the needs and goals and tasks and responsibilities of somebody else.

By living according to the precepts of Islam they counter white America's stereotype of black men as on drugs, out of work or in jail.

Your companion this time is a white executive, known as a liberal who pays blacks and whites alike for equal work.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

Those meetings — so filled with joy and the hope of deliverance from Mr. Charlie — and our daily work with the local blacks came as close to the church of the Book of Acts as I've ever been privileged to see.

This principle may serve as a diagnostic category when working with the accumulative effects of black people's experience of oppression.

In contrast, even as late as the 14th century the Black Death worked its ruin on a helpless Europe that could not even begin to understand and thus combat it.

However, this third step will improve black institutions of theological education only if the love of learning (the condition for theology) prevails there and in the family and the community, where the discipline of learning to love (the work of theology) is regarded as the ultimate joy.

Yet, instead of attempts to work through this dilemma, there is a sudden switch to romanticizing the masses and damning the middle class, as if to be both middle - class and truly black contradicts black reality.

Or gay and lesbian partners at Chicago law firms where Posner works as compared to black partners.

But if the black church is to live up to its mission as a body separated unto God to do his work in the world, then it must give prominence to the question of commitment to Christ the Liberator.

Her identification of a womanist as also a feminist joins black women with their feminist heritage extending back into the nineteenth century in the work of black feminists like Sojourner Truth, Frances W. Harper, and Mary Church Terrell.

But an adequate feminist analysis must embrace the whole spectrum of the female condition in such a way as to take into account the different situations of non-Christian women, working - class women, black women, married women, etc..

Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.

Would black sesame seeds work as well and would you have to toast them first??