Sentences with phrase «write about people of color»

When female authors write under male pen names (or just use their gender ambiguous initials); when you call grown women girls; when you describe a medical procedure in sensational and inaccurate language; when you write about people of color using only food - based descriptors you're doing your audience a disservice and, in the end, damaging our society as a whole.

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«I'm a person of color, so it really cut deep,» Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia told Fusion recently of the reports, which Fusion had first written about in 2015 and which the East Bay Express had also reported on.

Richard J. Reddick, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas, writes for Fortune that some people of color might be cynical about Starbucks» response to the crisis that was precipitated by a store manager calling the cops on two black men sitting at a table (after a mere couple of minutes of them not buying anything.)

On the entire face of the earth there is only one author who correctly wrote about the life of Jesus, his ancestry, his intermingling with other people of his era, and the color of his skin.

They are not at home in America, but they wish to be, and they write about people who are nostalgic for a time when smaller - town values, continuity, tradition and a sense of duty and public virtue presumably colored common life.

However, as I thought about what specifically I would write about, I quickly realized that all significant issues pertaining to the recruitment, retention, and subsequent career paths followed by people of color have already been written about, discussed, and analyzed over the years ad nauseam, in various forums, by many different organizations.

What a Forgotten Kids» Book Reveals About U.S. Publishing — Pooja Makhijani examines the poignant children's novel Gay Neck, which was written by an Indian immigrant who became the first person of color to win the Newbery Medal.

Some youngsters wrote about the need for people to reach out to others with whom they did not get along and that everyone deserves respect — no matter what the color of their skin is or what religion they practice.

That's what made me want to write a book about loss with a main character who is a person of color.

«Today, people don't think twice about players of different skin colors competing with one another on the court, but it wasn't always that way,» Coy writes.

Also excellent for supporting discussions about U.S. history and civil rights: Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color, by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson; Never Forgotten, written by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon; Poetry for Young People: African American Poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount; Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People, by Carole Boston Weatherford; Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All - Girl Swing Band in the World, by Marilyn Nelson; and This Land Is My Land, by George Littlechild.

Our genres are: self - help, relationship, mystery, romance, sex, novels, LGBT books, books about or written by people of color, any fiction, any non-fiction, memoirs.

Even now, in 2014, the number of titles written by or about people of color is a disgrace.

People of Color aren't supposed to want to travel or write about travel.

Yenawine is the author of an introduction to modern art, called How to Look at Modern Art and has written six children's books about art — Stories, Colors, Lines, Shapes, People, and Places.

I don't mean this in a bad way, but I think a lot of people who write about the work in terms of Abstract Expressionism is because they see a lot of colors or they see thick paint.

Lots of people ask about the ceiling color, and I stupidly disposed of it before writing it down.