Sentences with phrase «young african american»

The way in which a client's behavior is defined leads to specific treatment, and thus it is necessary to investigate the psychological models used for assessment and diagnosis as well as explore alternative ways to understand behavioral «symptomology» among young African American men.

(Published 2015) The goal of the Supporting the School Readiness and Success of Young African American Boys Project (2013 - 2015), was to help Head Start and other early education programs promote culturally responsive, strength - based learning environments for young African American boys.

Additionally, Erik created several workshops for teens and runs a support group for Young African American men.

In the course of the project, materials were developed, professional development was conducted, and a new resource, Supporting the School Readiness and Success of Young African American Boys Project: Reflections on a Culturally Responsive Strength - Based Approach, evolved.

This resource is meant to help a variety of different audiences, including program managers, classroom teachers, home visitor, family advocate, and parents, reflect and think about how to best support young African American boys in early learning settings.

The goal of the Supporting the School Readiness and Success of Young African American Boys Project (2013 - 2015), was to help Head Start and other early education programs promote culturally responsive, strength - based learning environments for young African American boys.

Today I watched a video that replicated that experience but in this case, for a young African American lawyer (Bryan Stevenson) who was mistaken by a judge for being the defendant, and told to leave the court until his lawyer arrived.

Carolyn Elefant, noting that five young African American attorneys have formed their own firm to serve Fortune 500s and black - owned businesses in Atlanta, adds her 2 cents to their decision:

In one series, titled May June July August «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of young African American women (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for each model.

It includes early portraits of the men Wiley observed on Harlem's streets, and which laid the foundation for his acclaimed reworkings of Old Master paintings by Titian, van Dyke, Manet, and others, in which he replaces historical subjects with young African American men in contemporary attire: puffy jackets, sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps.

In one series, titled May June July August, «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of a young African American woman (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for the model.

«In the»80s and»90s,» Hank Willis Thomas explained, «a lot of young African American men were getting killed over Michael Jordan sneakers.

The fabric became fashionable in the 1970s as a popular choice for disco attire and in turn, through heavy marketing, the name was adopted for many young African American girls born in the years to follow.

A Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition surveys the career of dynamic young African American artist Kehinde Wiley, whose work is some of the most sought after in today's art market.

In this series, Wiley paints young African American men in poses reminiscent of Memling's tightly composed, small - scale portraits, and encases these images in sturdy, wooden - framed boxes with panel doors.

Together, The Lost Boys (Collection of Rick and Jolanda Hunting) and De Style (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) telegraph the artist's simultaneous attentions to structural racism — young African American men cyclically lost to drugs, incarceration, violence — and spaces such as the barbershop, a site of community and cultural empowerment.

Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers seeing Sherald engage with young African American girls at a gallery talk.

IN A HANDWRITTEN LETTER, Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978) thanked an aspiring young African American physician for sending his final payment to purchase one of her paintings.

In a short seven year career, Bob Thompson proved to be of profound influence and received unparallel praise for a young African American artist of his time.

Race relations remained tense as the brutal police beating of the young African American Rodney King sparked the Los Angeles riots of 1992.

As a young African American artist from the segregated South, Whitten came to New York in 1960 where Abstract Expressionism still dominated the art world.

In Day Dreaming two young African American men stand holding each other, a complicated gesture that is both masculine and feminine, powerful and tender.

First focusing on young African American men in Harlem, Wiley eventually expanded his oeuvre and launched his World Stage series featuring «urban» men in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

At 22.9 %, the incarceration rate is highest among young African American men who didn't finish school.

Through twenty - four sonnets, two Connecticut poets imagine the voices of selected «Little Misses of Color» to tell the courageous story of Prudence Crandall, who opened her nineteenth century academy to young African American women.

Vivien was a young African American man who without a medical degree or a college education, designed the surgical technique that showed doctors how to operate on children born with Tetralogy of Fallot or Blue Babies.

BookBrowse Review «Jesmyn Ward's memoir profiles five young African American men who have been lost in a spate of deaths in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi.

Famed ballerina Misty Copeland encourages a young African American girl to follow her dreams to be a prima ballerina.

The 1963 bombing of a Birmingham Baptish church, which killed four young African American girls, puts a human face on the tragic civil rights strife.

, (HarperCollins, April 2015) a novel for teens based on the life of a young African American dancer, and On a Clear Day (Crown / Random House Books for Young Readers, September 2014).

Anderson follows her searing, multi-award-winning novel Chains (2008) with this well - researched sequel, also set during the Revolutionary War and narrated by a young African American.

There was a young African American girl, probably around 6 years old, who walked into the library where the reading was taken place and was obviously distressed.

White students are concentrated in three high - quality college prep high schools, whereas the high school graduation rate is only 25 percent for young African American men in Buffalo's majority - black district.

Yet today, Blackmon, now 21, is a standout student at Southern University at New Orleans, in the Honoré Center for Undergraduate Achievement, an intensive new program that gives full scholarships to young African American men who show promise despite unremarkable transcripts.

Caire and the Urban League say the school is needed because of the dismal performance of minority students in public schools in Madison, along with high incarceration rates of young African American men in Dane County.

Last week President Obama announced a five - year, $ 200 million charitable initiative called My Brother's Keeper to help young African American men.

We should be thrilled that our President has acknowledged publicly the persistent challenges that young African American men face in modern day America and, more importantly, has pledged to encourage concrete actions to address those challenges.

Tatum will explain the value of examining socio - historical orientations and platforms to unbind the national narrative that has constrained the experiences of young African American males.

Another primary informant, who works with a youth organization, describes the socio - economic system in which young African American men in Chicago seem trapped — he's less hopeful about where the healing might lay.

As they get older, our young African American students deserve support in terms of being exposed to great books and great literature so they're learning to read, but as they begin to read to learn, they are exposed to a little bit of everything — great books and literature across various cultures as well as the classics.

Steele writes that «Staples was dealing with a phantom, a bad stereotype about his race, that young African American males in this neighborhood are violence prone.»

Through a mentoring program that includes empathy, drumming, and myths, young African American men identify and refine the raw materials of their humanity and potential.

Teachers might consider a unit on the topic that would include The Pact, a book by and about three young African American men on a collaborative journey to become doctors.

The microbudget pic (est $ 4.5 M before P&A) tells the story of Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) a young African American who goes to meet his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family (Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener) for the first time.

Spike debuted episodes from the Browder piece, featuring Jay Z as an interviewee, and a pair of young African American filmmakers unveiled «Whose Streets?

The British filmmaker, whose credits also include «Shame» and «Hunger,» is developing an untitled drama for HBO that centers on the experience of a young African American man, whose past may not be what it seems, and his initiation into New York high society, the network confirmed to Show Tracker.

IMDB Plot: It's time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.

A young African American from a white neighborhood gets a look at the reality of urban life.

In Amman Abbasi's debut, Dayveon has plenty of big reasons to believe that everything is stupid: His older brother was recently killed in gang - related violence and there isn't much of a chance Dayveon will be able to avoid a similar fate, both because he's already facing hazing rituals with the Bloods in town, and because Abbasi reflects the milieu of a young African American male growing up in the impoverished South in tones of unmitigated naturalism shot through with shreds of magical realism.

There he mentors Curtis (Aubrey Joseph), a fatherless young African American boy who aspires to become a pugilist.