Sentences with phrase «young black sons»

It is their young black sons who are the ones most - likely to end up being placed into special ed ghettos even when they only need extra reading instruction.

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And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

«Every black mother lives in fear of deadly trouble befalling her young sons, whether she lives in the New York City governor's mansion or the Brooklyn projects.

Geoffrey Canada comes from the Harlem streets, raised by a single mother who wanted to make sure her sons excelled even though the options for young Black men in poverty seem limited to imprisonment or death.

Then, just as her husband used their son Dante as a prop when he spoke in December about the dangers that the police pose to young black males, McCray trotted out their daughter Chiara to be the city's poster child for recovery from depression and substance abuse.

When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

Fast - forward to 2016, however, and you can stream Netflix's unapologetically Afrocentric Luke Cage series, while shows like Cloak and Dagger, Black Lightning and the recently - announced series Raising Dion (co-produced and — starring Michael B. Jordan about a single mother discovers her young son has magical powers) in various stage of production.

It's easy to forget the young son in Squid telling his mother that she's ugly; I wonder if it isn't the lightness that tempers his first two pictures that's led Baumbach to craft a film full of the kind of stuff that elicits only the blackest laughter.

Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

Following the journey of exiled Divko Buntic (Miki Manojlovic, Irina Palm) upon his return to his home town after a 22 year absence, the comedic yet dramatic offering explores the impact his arrival has on his abandoned family, with long - suffering wife Lucija (Mira Furlan, TV's Lost) and adult son Martin (Boris Ler, Some Other Stories) thrown into disarray by the presence of his new, younger girlfriend Azra (Jelena Stupljanin, The Ambulance) and adored black cat Bonny.

The plot of Paris, Texas is disarmingly simple, focusing on the dramatic after - effects of a marriage's breakdown on young Hunter (played by Hunter Carson, son of writer L. M. Kit Carson and actress Karen Black); his father, Travis (a name that still had sinister resonance eight years after Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and played with shell - shocked intensity by Harry Dean Stanton); and his mother, Jane, a plain name almost willfully ill suited to the fragile, feral character embodied in the film by Nastassja Kinski.

While seemingly talking to a poster of the star — with one woman remarking, «For me, as the mother of a young son, my son's childhood has been defined by Barack Obama and now Black Panther.

- A second plot summary via Coming Soon: Based on the 2007 Black List script by Bryan Sipe, «Demolition» is the story of Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, who rallies to rebuild his life after a family crisis — with the help of a struggling young mother and her unusual son.

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Moonlight (2016) is both a poetic and provocative portrait of a young black child, the sensitive, bullied son of a crack - addict single mom in a tough Miami neighborhood, presented through three acts of his life from childhood to adulthood.

Seth Carr is also featured in Marvel's Black Panther as young Killmonger and lead role in the suspense thriller» Breaking In» starring along side Gabrielle Union as her son Glover Russell.

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Anderson's partner is a black man («a recovering corporate banker turned improv artist turned entrepreneur,» said Anderson), and they have a young son together.

Her story is intertwined with that of her bigoted father - in - law, her husband's younger brother and the son of black sharecroppers.

There is the young black soldier ready to die for the love of a girl whose superior social class puts her beyond his reach; the crippled son of a southern magistrate, entranced by the young technology of the moving image; and the educated son of a Filipino land owner who turns from aspiring priest to committed revolutionary, and a dozen or so more.

Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

In this story of the political fireball that erupts when a young white woman claims her car was hijacked, with her infant son inside, by a black man, Price homes in on racial tensions and media distortion, reflecting on how they affect individual lives.

Among their many tenants who are constantly evicted or in danger of being thrown out are Arleen, a young black woman with two boys; Lamar, a black disabled man with two sons struggling to find a place of his own; Larraine, a white woman struggling to make rent with no job prospects, and Scott, a white gay drug addict who loses his nursing license.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

A video, Fathers and Sons, interviews black police officers who must deal with even younger African Americans.

RL: When my younger son was a kid, he said to me: «Why do you work in black and white?»

Ms. Broderick also worked on the script of «Glory,» the 1989 Civil War drama, which starred her son as a young commander in charge of an all - black regiment.

In a work on plywood titled Lots of Choice (2015) a black frame and small swiping hands recall the way Fugazza's young son resisted «full screen» options when watching Peppa Pig online.

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Set in 1930s Chicago, «Native Son» tells the dramatic story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man caught in a downward spiral after he suffocates a white woman.