Sentences with phrase «young urban men»

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large - scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

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The high - end men's retailer attracts young, urban customers with its slim - fitting pants, shirts, jackets, and suits and tuxedos.

I see why Islam is the fastest grwoing religion among young urban Black men.

The rural ministry gradually became a stepping stone for young men on their way to more prosperous city churches or a final resting place for the man who had given his most vigorous years to urban centers.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

As a young man, Jiménez found kindred spirits in like - minded men and women who were committed to the causes of liberation and independence for Puerto Rico — and sought freedom from what they perceived to be the racist and discriminatory treatment minority residents faced in major urban centers such as Chicago and New York.

The President's stated commitment to the future of urban youth, especially young men of color in the United States, through the launch of his «My Brother's Keeper Alliance,» is worthy of considerable praise.

Ashford's career experience includes working as the vice president of urban affairs with Jewish Community Center and Young Men's Christian Association.

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«The inclination in some secondary schools is that young men of color from urban environments need a lot of help, that they're behind, so we give them all of this support that doesn't really challenge them to actually be better,» said Warren, MSU assistant professor of teacher education.

There are also certain brands that are designing only for young men so you should stay clear of them, these include Urban Outfitters, Rue21 and American Eagle.

The first city where you can find easier a cougar to date, or to find a younger man if you're a urban cougar is for sure Chicago.

Young happy smiling urban professional man using smart phone.

Poignant and powerful, 96 Minutes gives us an insight into not just what happens but why it happens, in the belly of urban America when young men drift into bad company

«Metropolitan» follows the life of members of the urban haute bourgeoise, a pair of love - starved upper - class men dealing with anti-American sentiment in «Barcelona,» and in «The Last Days of Disco,» two young women juggling day jobs in publishing while dancing their nights away near the end of the nightclub era.

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white wUrban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white wurban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

Perhaps the first urban film of the genre, this moody thriller stars Arthur Franz as a deranged young man who shoots women with a surplus Army rifle, prompting a police manhunt in hilly San Francisco.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

Adopt This: At Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, 100 % of the students are accepted into college, and 95 % enroll in college.

Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, an all - black, all - male, 9 - 12, Title I school in Chicago, Illinois, begins every day with Community, a 30 - minute, schoolwide assembly.

At Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, 95 % of the students enroll in college.

«That's the most important part about this whole class: becoming well - rounded young men,» says Gregory Sashington, an Urban Prep, Englewood Campus alumni, Pride leader, and assistant dean.

«The goal of Pride is to help young men navigate through not only school, but also through being an adolescent male with the obstacles that they're facing, and then trying to lead them through college, add reinforcement outside of the classroom, and give them very clear insight as to what to expect in college,» says Dion Steele, Urban Prep, Englewood Campus» principal.

One day, Edward Banfield brought in as guest lecturer to his Urban Problems course a young assistant labor secretary from Washington named Moynihan to talk about LBJ's new War on Poverty — my first glimpse of the man who would become my most important mentor and teacher.

In keeping with our efforts to create opportunities for young Black men, seeing members of our inaugural class beginning to attain bachelor's degrees inspired us to create the Urban Prep Fellows Program.

At Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men, Englewood Campus, an all - black, all - male, 9 - 12, Title I school in Chicago, Illinois, the curriculum includes a daily social - emotional class, Pride.

The staff at Urban Prep looks at their students» experiences and needs, incorporating them into their Pride curriculum to help these young men better navigate their situations in and outside of school.

With a culture emphasizing respect, responsibility, ritual, and relationships, Chicago's Urban Prep Charter Academy provides young men with a supportive community for learning academic and life skills.

In 2006, Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men (also known as Urban Prep Academies) opened its doors in Chicago's South Side with the goal of providing the young black boys of its student body the tools for post-secondary sucYoung Men (also known as Urban Prep Academies) opened its doors in Chicago's South Side with the goal of providing the young black boys of its student body the tools for post-secondary sucyoung black boys of its student body the tools for post-secondary success.

There also are serious concerns about many urban districts clustering special education students and over-classifying young men of color inappropriately, all of which call into question what kinds of targets are appropriate to set for any school to meet.

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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.

It's great that Urban Prep works to prepare mostly low - income, mostly African - American young men to go to college.

From there, I left to become a founding teacher and department chair at Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men in Englewood.

As a teacher in a low - income, urban school with many young men of color as students, these facts disturbed me greatly, and I knew that the findings had profound implications for my school and my students.

Your book vividly conjures urban America twenty years ago, a time when the fracturing of families, the implosion of the inner city, and the sudden emergence of crack cocaine combined to create what felt like a catastrophic threat to the survival of young black men as a group.

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.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

The installation focuses on four distinct characters / scenarios: a Tokyo auctioneer, a young man (Andre 3000 from the music group Outkast) navigating desolate urban streets, a helicopter factory worker who doubles as a tap dancer, and a young woman playing handball.

And the younger man, born in 1968 (but no, in New Jersey), is thoroughly urban.

A master of portraiture, Wiley has traveled to Nigeria, Senegal, Brazil, Israel, Sri Lanka and beyond, hand picking young «urban» men from each destination to sit for formal portraits that reference classic European paintings executed with vibrant - hued, elaborately patterned backgrounds.

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Prior to attending law school, Neel taught and mentored high school students at Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men in Chicago.

Santana MC et al., Masculine gender roles associated with increased sexual risk and intimate partner violence perpetration among young adult men, Journal of Urban Health, 2006, (4): 575 — 585, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430489/.

In contrast, Hyde et al. (2016a, b) found, this time in a sample of young, low - income, urban men, that antisocial behavior (but not CU traits) was negatively related to amygdala reactivity to fearful faces.

Dissecting the role of amygdala reactivity in antisocial behavior in a sample of young, low - income, urban men.

In general, men and individuals who were younger, widowed / separated / divorced, of lower socioeconomic status, and living in urban areas or in the West were more likely to have antisocial syndromes.