Sentences with phrase «young black men whose»

- The Jerome Project (2015) by Titus Kaphar combines the portraits of three young black men whose tragic deaths prompted a national conversation around racial profiling, policing, and gun violence: Trayvon Martin (died February 26, 2012), Michael Brown (died August 9, 2014), and Tamir Rice (died November 22, 2014), which outlines the subjects» faces in white chalk on Asphalt - coated roofing paper.

Just 22 - year - old when he was shot on New Year's Day in 2009, Grant was a young black man whose legacy had been distilled down to a four - minute YouTube clip of senseless police brutality.

Joining the march, she meets Caleb, a young black man whose manner of dress and comfort with the white Union soldiers raises an eyebrow among Mariah and other formerly enslaved people.

Not exact matches

It occurred to Abbott, many of whose constituents are the young black men who disproportionately make up the database, that she might try a different tactic and suggest the DNA database did not reduce crime.

«I look at this through lens of young black and Latino men whose lives have been unfortunately impacted disproportionally as a result of possessing low levels of marijuana,» she said at a press conference outside of New York State Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan.

«I look at this through the lens of reinvesting in communities that have historically been ignored, and I look at this through the lens of young black and Latino men whose lives unfortunately have been impacted disproportionately as a result of possessing low levels of marijuana,» she said.

My personal opinion only, but I think the actual problem is the fact that so few black men are able to cross the barrier to become a sugar daddy and seek out that special ebony / coffee / cappucino princess sugar baby of their dreams, and that leaves a lot of deserving young women fighting over men of other races whose own women are fighting for them to begin with.

But instead, the Academy was won over by an intimate portrait of a young, gay black man in a poor Miami housing project whose mother (brilliantly played by Naomie Harris) is a crack addict.

Peele — better known for his comedy work in Comedy Central's Key & Peele — astutely taps into systemic racism that persists in America through the eyes of a young black man (played by Daniel Kaluuya) whose visit to the family home of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) turns tragic.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

It is the work of experts that has led to such practices as the overuse of suspensions and expulsions, and the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems).

Williams - Bolar would end up spending 10 days in jail for placing her two daughters in the relatively high - performing (and, more important to her, safe) Copley - Fairlawn school district (where few of the black students drop out) instead of keeping them in the woeful, more - dangerous Akron district (whose Balfanz rate for young black men and women, respectively, is 62 percent and 76 percent) in which her family resided.

The hero is not a rich white man but a poor black kid in the South, Eddie, whose young life unravels when his activist father is murdered.

Insist they did: Robert Gober's handmade newspapers with headlines about the gay «threat» to marriage; the graffitilike scrawl on Pat Ward Williams's mural of five young black men asking viewers «What You Lookn At»; and Pepón Osorio's installation of a cramped Latino home featuring a corpse covered with a bloody sheet — The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?).