Sentences with phrase «young women and people of color»

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.

Program Aims to Help More Women Catch Breast Cancer Sooner, Particularly Younger Women and People of Color

Not exact matches

I've been talking to a lot of the new members asked to join the Academy during its two - year diversity push, and a lot of these ostensibly hipper, younger voters — many of whom are people of color and white women — are happy to tell you they like Three Billboards.

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

He's driving away Latinos and other people of color, young people, women, the disabled, the majority of Americans with a college education... not exactly a strategy to grow the party's base of support.

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.

Certainly some of the demographics here is exactly the demographics they want turning out: young and people of color and women,» Raven Brooks, executive director of Netroots Foundation and Netroots Nation, told CNN.

Today, Ferreras is the first woman, first person of color and the youngest City Councilmember to be elected as Finance Chair.

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.

... * 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 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 diverse.

The Academy's recent diversity push added more younger and international members; its 7,000 voters are now 28 percent women and 13 percent people of color.

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.

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.

We offer reproductive health care services for women, men, and young people; supporting people of color, those with low incomes, and the LGBTQ community.

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.

Two and a half million women, men and young people — nearly half of whom are people of color — come through the doors of Planned Parenthood health centers every year...