How to Use man of color in a Sentence

man of color

noun
  • But the odds are good that the 41st will be a woman or a man of color.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Boston has a high rate of stop and frisk of young men of color.
    Kalpana Jain, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And a large percent of them are people of color, young men of color.
    Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Two young men of color vanished three months apart on the same road nearly two decades ago.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The nine coaches of color account for 28% of the 32 coaches in a league where roughly two-thirds of the players are men of color.
    USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Kahanamoku also tried to be a Hollywood star, only to learn that there were no leading roles for men of color at the time.
    Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • There’s a lot of Black men, men of color, Asian men — there is so much representation this season.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
  • The three founders — all of whom are men of color, work full-time jobs, and have debt (like student loans) — say there’s increasing demand for them to expand across state lines.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • In New Orleans, they were joined by French-descended pirates, Choctaw warriors and free men of color.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • These events resulted in a 41 ½ year stint in the state’s penitentiary, and the dreams of yet another young man of color, deferred.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 17 July 2023
  • That same machine doesn’t seem to be working as generously for men of color.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 17 June 2024
  • Elsewhere Young men of color struggle to enroll in college.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Sanchez’s death came amid a string of fatal Los Angeles police encounters involving men of color in the throes of mental health crises at the start of the year.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Almost 98% of the men included in the study were white, but men of color in the group had markedly lower chances of living five years or longer after their diagnoses.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 July 2023
  • This year, no women (or men of color, for that matter) were nominated.
    Diane Garrett, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Under Harris’ tutelage, the then-24-year-old stylist grew in confidence both in his hair dressing skills and his identity as a gay man of color.
    Julian E.j. Sorapuru, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Jesus was depicted as a man of color — somewhere between brown and Black — and so were his disciples.
    John Blake, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The shooting is the latest in a city that has long had a history of controversy surrounding police killings of men of color.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The Last Ride is a true crime podcast about two young men of color who went missing in Naples, Florida nearly two decades ago after they were last seen with the same white sheriff’s deputy.
    USA Today, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Even though women are at the greatest risk for marital rape, men—and especially men of color—can be victims as well.
    Nylah Burton, Women's Health, 13 May 2023
  • The company founded a core shaving system product for men of color.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The jail was full of young men of color who wrote and performed their own raps, often about chasing money and fame, while Swift was out there, actually getting rich and famous.
    Joe Garcia, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The mug shots of two young men of color — one Black, one Latino — were splashed all over local and national media, turning them into the poster boys of suburban teen attacks.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The organization has goals to expand to serve even more boys, and to also recruit more men of color for leadership positions, Meeks said.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Our news cycles and media tend to reinforce images of men of color in crime, white straight men in positions of power and women with families.
    Julie Kratz, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Obama first launched the My Brother's Keeper program in 2014 to address opportunity gaps for young men of color.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, Joey Annunziato, CBS News, 16 May 2023
  • On a surface level, Hollywood was also beginning to look a lot different, with some of the buzziest movies starring men of color.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 17 June 2024
  • One explanation for that disparity is that men of color tend to be diagnosed with melanoma later than white men.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 July 2023
  • The crux of this debate about blades is rooted in a large population of men—particularly men of color and men with curly hair—who suffer from ingrown hairs and razor bumps.
    Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • To combat the effects of false allegations against men of color, systemic changes are imperative.
    Eugene Z. Bertrand, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2024

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