Sentences with phrase «young people of color in»

Paul Rucker will build on his body of work combining original cello compositions with data visualization to illustrate the disproportional representation of young people of color in juvenile detention, the economics of the prison - industrial complex, the growth of the US prison system, and the relationships among these trends.

Khalil's is the story of too many young people of color in disinvested communities across the nation.

There is a need for more young people of color in STEM fields and for them to have access to skills that will help them succeed and lead.

Not exact matches

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

Nationally, 1 in 7 young people are disconnected from the economy, a challenge that is exponentially worse in low - income communities, particularly among people of color.

A pilot run last summer trained 14 young people in kitchen skills, food tech, and social media, with case management for extra support and a chance to meet local food entrepreneurs of color as a highlight.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

In March 2012, he became the Director for the Lifelines to Healing Campaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.

And, if I may note my own two recent offerings: The revised and expanded Letters to a Young Catholic (Basic Books) is intended for the young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-Young Catholic (Basic Books) is intended for the young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-young from sixteen to (at least) eighty - plus, while City of Saints: A Pilgrimage to John Paul II's Kraków (Image) will, I hope, be welcomed by all attending World Youth Day - 2016, in person or in spirit, in print or in the all - color - photography e-book.

I would love to feature younger thinkers, persons of color, and some female voices who often get overlooked in evangelical and denominational conversations.

Trust in human progress colored the literature at the disposal of young people.

Men and women, old and young, people of every color and culture and creed, not knowing whether additional attacks were coming, out in the dark, out in the smoke, out in the chaos, comforting the families of the missing, donating blood, assisting and providing relief to our valiant police, firefighters and rescue workers.

This usually crops up when young people of color are asked to empty their pockets by police (yes, even now that the NYPD has reduced the frequency of stop - and - frisks); in 2010, the state arrested more than 100,000 people for marijuana possession, leaving more reactionary destinations like Texas in the dust.

LGBTQ young people, particularly youth of color, deserve safe and supportive spaces in which they can find community.

In the past, police seized condoms as evidence of prostitution, which inhibited both street workers and others, particularly young people of color, from carrying them.

«Young people of color, African - Americans and Latinos definitely showed more interest in running for office than whites,» said Richard Fox, a Loyola University political science professor and former Union College professor who along with Jennifer Lawless (a Union grad) co-authored «Running From Office,» a book looking at political apathy among young peYoung people of color, African - Americans and Latinos definitely showed more interest in running for office than whites,» said Richard Fox, a Loyola University political science professor and former Union College professor who along with Jennifer Lawless (a Union grad) co-authored «Running From Office,» a book looking at political apathy among young peyoung people.

In a follow - up email, Cianciotto elaborated, writing, «Any plan to end AIDS, from New York to California, needs to address the root causes — the socio - economic, cultural, institutional, political, and legal drivers of the epidemic — that concentrate HIV infection among young transgender people of color.»

«Housing young people, mostly young men of color, in adult facilities exposes them to dangerous influences instead of the services and support they need to become productive members of society in the future,» the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Cuomo ally, said in a statement.

In 2004, David Soares was a political upstart running for Albany County District Attorney, promising to change the system that sends so many young people of color to jail.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

I also know that I chose the right turn in regards to career fulfillment because I feel good and I see the fire ignited in so many young people of color.

Children of color accounted for approximately 49 percent of all young people in 2015, but were overrepresented among those living in poor and low - income families.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

In reality, when people say that they didn't like the «cartoony» art style of Wind Waker, they usually mean they didn't like the cell shaded approach, the younger character designs, the character proportions, and the bright color palette.

... * Ed Lachman colors of Manhattan streets, 1977 — Wonderstruck... * On Molly Bloom not being Irish: preposterous dialog between Molly (Jessica Chastain) and Downey (Chris O'Dowd), Molly's Game... * Dunkirk: pale hand of a man drowning on boat... * «They're no longer persons, only body parts» — In the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous moutIn the Fade... * Thelma: the baby under the divan... * The opening of Wind River: young Native American woman running barefoot against moon glaze on snow... * Mother and non-reincarnated deer, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * In Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous moutIn Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous moutin Liverpool, father (Kenneth Cranham) remembering Gloria Grahame from In a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous moutIn a Lonely Place: «Gorgeous mouth.

In the wake of two years of #OscarsSoWhite protests, the academy began taking dramatic steps in 2016 to bring more women and people of color into its historically overwhelmingly white and male membership ranks, and as a result the pool of academy members — now numbering roughly 8,400 — has become younger and more diversIn the wake of two years of #OscarsSoWhite protests, the academy began taking dramatic steps in 2016 to bring more women and people of color into its historically overwhelmingly white and male membership ranks, and as a result the pool of academy members — now numbering roughly 8,400 — has become younger and more diversin 2016 to bring more women and people of color into its historically overwhelmingly white and male membership ranks, and as a result the pool of academy members — now numbering roughly 8,400 — has become younger and more diverse.

Since then, and now more than ever, my professional goal has been to work to promote more reading in high schools, particularly for young people of color.

According to Act 4 Juvenile Justice, for more than 35 years the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) has provided critical federal funding to states to comply with a set of core requirements designed to protect children from the dangers of adult jails and lockups; keep young people safe; keep children charged with status offenses out of locked custody; and address the disparate treatment of youth of color in the justice system.

As a Chicago native and son of a Chicago police officer, Chris realized at a young age the crucial need for high - quality educational opportunities for people of color in communities like Chicago and St. Louis.

Since then, it has always been a priority of hers to learn and grow in order to best serve young people, especially students of color and those who live in poverty.

Despite the recent gains in U.S. graduation rates, far too many young people, mainly students of color from educationally and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, are leaving school without a high school diploma or are severely underprepared for college - level work.

You may wish to remind students that some people believe just the opposite of what those who participated in the #IfTheyGunnedMeDown campaign do: that news media are overly conscious of race and attempt to portray young victims of color sympathetically by intentionally choosing the most innocent images available.

Demographic projections also tell us that population growth in the region over the next two decades will be led by people of color — especially young Hispanics, but also African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and others.

I am the mother of a young person of color living in the United States today.

Experience working directly with racially and economically diverse high school aged young people, and with low income young people and people of color in particular.

The generation of young people being educated in today's public schools has never been more diverse, with our schools serving more students of color, students with disabilities and English - language learners.

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.

Young people of various backgrounds from around Kabul share their hopes and dreams in this amazing and heartrending collection, illustrated with full - color photo portraits.

People were reluctant to pay attention when the victims were servant girls or young women of color, ascribing the crimes to a gang of «bad blacks,» in part because Austin was prosperous and growing; murders in the news were bad publicity.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

With recent protests by professional football players in mind, the young Chicago - based artist Samuel Levi Jones has curated this group show, which brings together several artists from different generations whose work meditates on the relationship between power structures and persons of color in America.

For her first exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Ebony G. Patterson will consider violence against young people of color.

We want to invite organizations that have been instrumental to people of color long before we came along; whether they host a dinner series to cultivate conversations about identity, or program classes that help foster creativity in court - involved young people.

2013 Wingding 3rd Anniversary Exhibition, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2013 Fractal Semblance, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL 2012 NADA Miami, Rawson Projects, Miami, FL 2012 Fictitious Truths curated by Kara Rooney, Rooster Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Anderson, Murphy, Nielsen, New Capital Projects, Chicago, IL 2012 People Who Work Here curated by Rawson Projects, David Zwirner gallery, New York, NY 2012 First Love, curated by Angela Bryant O'Connor gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL 2011 Color: Fully Engaged, curated by Jamilee Polson, A & D gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2011 Juried Auction, NURTUREart hosted by the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY 2010 Feeble Intimacy, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2010 MinimumixaM curated by Nicholas Cueva, Dan Gunn, and Heather Mekkelson Twelve Galleries Quarterly # 1 hosted by Pentagon Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 Ship in a Bottle, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2008 Liz Nielsen at Accomplice Projects, Art Basel Miami / Bridge Fair, Miami, FL 2007 Awesome in Giftshop project space, Gescheidle Gallery Chicago, IL 2007 Word of Mouth presented by Diet Gallery, Art Basel Miami / Bridge Fair Miami, FL 2005 Art Chicago, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Basel Miami / Aqua Art, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Miami, FL 2005 Genderosity, 4 - F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Art Chicago / NOVA Young Art Fair, Project Rooms: (The Mothership Installation), Chicago, IL 2004 Who's doing Self - Portraiture in 2004?

Its antipode was in the madhouse of Team Gallery's receptions for Cory Arcangel (on Wooster Street) and Ryan McGinley on Grand Street, where the walls and ceilings were totally plastered with 750 appealing young, naked, and not necessarily nubile persons posing against color, Holbein - like seamless backdrops.

Attending the Summit & Women's Forum reminds my team at Multicultural Communities for Mobility that we must continue to participate in challenging spaces and reminds us that our identities as people of color and young professionals, our dedication and our contributions have value.

With over 5000 people and 150 organizations, young people of color led the march in remembrance of the devastation from Sandy and recent hurricanes.

These barriers are hardest on those who already face challenges to accessing care: young people, women of color, those who live in rural areas and people with low incomes.

Additionally, due to discriminatory public policy, people of color, young people, and people living in rural areas who already face systemic barriers to accessing health care would be severely hurt.