Sentences with phrase «youth of color in»

Progressive projects — with youth of color in the lead — are demanding living wage work, an end to handouts of public lands and public dollars that privilege the wealthy few, and a city that protects all of its residents from the perils of poverty, eviction, criminalization, deportation and violence.

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.

A film collaboration between Kiki gatekeeper, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordenö, we're granted exclusive access into this high stakes world, where tough competitions act as a gateway into the daily lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC.

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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-book.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

The powerful feelings of conflict, loneliness, guilt, hope, passion, rage that came out «in living color,» as one youth commented, opened the doors to honest, open sharing.

Marginalized youth in the child welfare system, including LGBTQ youth and youth of color, deserve culturally competent, safe, and supportive care.

And to pair function with form, we also offer youth swim goggles in a wide array of fun colors and designs!

All of our kids birthday shirts are custom made using quality interlock cotton shirts (the thick stuff) and come in bright colors and sizes from infant to youth.

All of our organizations have campaigns to build the power of youth of color to access fresh and healthy food in schools through research, negotiation, and direct action.

Taking steps to address the growing income divide in our state, including targeted policies that address the disproportionate impact on people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos, as well as LGBTQ people, women and youth.

Robert Ziegler, who runs a gay bar on Christopher Street, and who has collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition in support of making Christopher Street safer, said he received an angry call recently from the Chelsea organization FIERCE, which serves LGBT youth of color.

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

Youth of color, the governor wrote in the executive order, are disproportionately affected.

Also at noon, Urban Youth Collaborative, Desis Rising Up and Moving, The Point, Girls for Gender Equity, and Rockaway Youth Task Force are joined by NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso to protest what they describe as «the unrelenting over-policing of students of color in New York City,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

He said he was extremely happy to see thousands of youth on the streets of Cape Coast dressed in NPP colors during the party's conference, and pointed out that the NPP, which has the backing of the youth, has a strong future.

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.

A panel consisting of former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D - Bronx), student Betty Mahmud of the New York City Urban Debate League and Terryl Demendonca of the Misunderstood Youth Center argued that corrupt politicians come and are prosecuted in all colors and ethnicities.

Andrea Ritchie, the senior policy counsel for a group called Streetwise and Safe, highlighted the impact that police encounters have on «LGBTQ youth of color» in particular.

Today's announcement was made during the City's first «Homelessness Among LGBTQ Persons of Color Awareness Breakfast,» sponsored by the Department of Homeless Services, Department of Youth & Community Development held at Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

The councilman's «New Deal» agenda includes a plan for youth employment, which Williams said would require an additional $ 100 million out of the city's $ 85.6 billion budget; free mental health counseling in communities of color, due to the stigmatization of mental health in those communities; free SAT prep classes and community college tuition; and further expanding the city's Crisis Management System.

Other than the green beer, today my only thoughts of St. Patty's Day are reminiscent of the days of my youth coloring in shamrock outlines in grade school and looking forward to receiving milk chocolate candies wrapped in metallic gold foil because, apparently, only children can make off with a leprechaun's gold without consequence!

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

The new documentary returns to a safe haven for LGBTQ youths of color first examined in the landmark film Paris Is Burning.

In New York City, LGBTQ youth - of - color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance - based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna's music video «Vogue» and the documentary «Paris Is Burning.&raquIn New York City, LGBTQ youth - of - color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance - based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna's music video «Vogue» and the documentary «Paris Is Burning.&raquin the early 1990s by Madonna's music video «Vogue» and the documentary «Paris Is Burning.»

According to director of photography Vittorio Storaro in his book «Visions of Light» (1992), he used different lights to represent the different stages of the emperor's life: red, representing his birth; orange, the warm color of his family, youth and the Forbidden City; yellow is the color of the emperor's identity and the sun; green, the color of the tutor's bike and hat, represents knowledge.

Also focused on the access to education for communities of color, The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway and co-directed by Dawn Valadez, tells the story of professor and author Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member, who attempts to inspire the youth in neighborhoods similar to those where he grew up, so that they can change their personal paths in spite of a system that sets them up for failure.

The first features profiles of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles and comes in either white, black or grey colors and is available in a variety of men, women and youth sizes.

Most compelling is the potential these hearings have to illuminate the unique circumstances of GLBT youth who often remain invisible and silenced in these conversations and who are multiply marginalized — those from lower - income backgrounds and youth of color — given the commission's call for youth from diverse backgrounds to participate.

The SIG will foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and youth development, particularly in low - income communities and communities of color.

Strengthening school districts — Launched in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within rural and urban geographies).

Students from Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights recently took to the streets to demand action on gun control and to challenge the criminalization of youth of color.

The research will also explore whether LGBT youth of color feel welcome in GSAs, or seek and receive support elsewhere.

Mundy - Shephard says that LGBT youth of color generally choose not to participate in GSAs and her research will examine whether the students» reasons vary by racial group, and the extent to which these reasons are affected by internal and external perceptions of LGBT identity as being incompatible with racial minority status, i.e., whether they perceive non-heterosexuality as a form of «acting white.»

The impact is greater in schools that serve low - income youth, particularly students of color, whose education these laws and policies were supposedly designed to improve.

The Color of Learning: Youth Researchers Tackle the Legacy of Brown (2004) For three years, one hundred inner city and suburban youth researchers and their adult partners at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York have studied how race influences learning in schools across AmeYouth Researchers Tackle the Legacy of Brown (2004) For three years, one hundred inner city and suburban youth researchers and their adult partners at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York have studied how race influences learning in schools across Ameyouth researchers and their adult partners at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York have studied how race influences learning in schools across America.

The South Carolina Public Charter School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

As Youth United for Change (YUC) Executive Director and Organizer Andi Perez explains to the new recruits, they have a chance to get involved in a campaign to remedy the systemic inequalities in the Philadelphia public schools — inequalities that place them, as students of color in a rough area of the city, at a disadvantage.

Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement initiative, OKF increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and policies at the district level and at three partner schools.

For all that schools continue expanding Euro - awareness of the value of indigenous culture and the culture of people of color; for the cultural expansion towards equitable roles between women and men; for the upsurging awareness of the equal rights of GBLTQQ folks; we're missing a key element in these conversations, and that's the cultural shoehorn known as children and youth.

««By teaching to the test, we are depriving a generation of youth, particularly youth of color growing up in low - income communities, from developing the critical thinking skills they need, and our country needs, to be competitive in this global economy,» added Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The solutions to school pushout supported by the Dignity in Schools campaign include shifting funding from school police to counselors and social workers; funding and using transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions; ensuring that states and districts focus on school climate under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and ending the pushout and arresting of students of color, LGBTQ youth, students who are homeless, and students with disabilities.

Youth need a full - spectrum of color in their kaleidoscopes in order to do well in life.

This film examines Oakland's evolution through the eyes of social entrepreneurs determined that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as Silicon Valley spreads into the home of the second largest black community in California.

On the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death and to commemorate the anniversary of the Columbine tragedy, more than 20 mostly Black and Brown - led youth organizations, representing thousands of youth of color from across the country, published a petition calling attention to their demands in the ongoing debate around school safety, gun control and violence against youth.

The Charter Institute at Erskine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Her research focuses on the role of schools and community - based organizations in shaping developmental outcomes for youth of color.

Friendship Public Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

And, you know, speaking to education and justice, in 2011, the u.s. department — the departments of education and justice launched a supportive school discipline initiative to reduce exclusionary discipline policies, practices and their impact on youth of color and youth with disabilities.

He has developed, implemented and supported key legislation, policies and programs related to various issues such as educational opportunity and academic outcome improvements; mentoring, leadership and literacy support for targeted Milwaukee youth; poverty; neighborhood revitalization; job creation, opportunity, quality and security for Milwaukee residents; and the development, success and achievement of young men of color in Milwaukee.