How to Use man of color in a Sentence
man of color
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Flowers-Lee, who lives in the district, said that young men of color like Mazariegos are overpoliced.
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Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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That leaves two Republicans and six Democrats, including three men of color and a woman.
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Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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His personal struggles growing up with an absent dad and being a young man of color who comes from a low-income family soon take a toll on him.
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Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Bishop Morris said My Brother’s Keeper has six milestones for young men of color to achieve while in school.
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Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Who can embody masculinity without disrespecting women or gay people, who can speak to the men—particularly young men of color—leaving the party in droves.
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Molly Ball,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Similar research has found that Black women are held to higher performance standards and are more likely than white women, men of color, and white men to experience workplace harassment.
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Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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And as the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tyre Nichols illustrate, stop-and-frisks against men of color can end with police using deadly force.
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Henry F. Fradella,
The Conversation,
13 Dec. 2023
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This crowd is typically younger than men participating in the commercial international dating industry and more likely to identify as men of color.
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Julia Meszaros,
The Conversation,
21 Nov. 2025
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There's an effort in Brooklyn aiming to redefine masculinity, using vulnerability, therapy and brotherhood to reach young men of color through structured emotional support and creative expression.
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Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Doctors advise men of color and men who have a family history of prostate cancer, the two populations most at risk of diagnosis, to be screened annually, earlier than the average of 50, between the ages of 40 and 45.
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Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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My Brother's Keeper Alliance is a nonprofit dedicated to improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, and its leaders said recent teen gatherings in Chicago have raised concerns in communities and even among youth.
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Shardaa Gray,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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My Brother’s Keeper was created by the Barack Obama Foundation to provide better opportunities for young men of color nationwide, according to its website.
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Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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My Brother’s Keeper was created by the Barack Obama Foundation to provide better opportunities for young men of color nationwide, according to its website.
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Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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In France, many of these free men of color witnessed the tumultuous storming of the Bastille prison in July 1789 and watched with hope as the revolutionary rhetoric of liberty, equality, and fraternity eventually led the French populace to overturn monarchical rule.
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Marlene L. Daut
september 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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The decline is particularly pronounced for women of color (37% decrease), LGBTQIA+ candidates (33% decrease), and men of color (33% decrease).
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Kara Dennison,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Six years later, 49 people were killed and and more than 50 were injured on June 12, 2016, in the Orlando, Florida, massacre at Pulse, a nightclub popular with LGBTQ+ men of color.
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Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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Similarly, the video Som da Maloka, 2024, by Raphael Escobar overturns negative stereotypes about the shelterless men of color living in Cracolândia, a highly impoverished and heavily policed area of downtown São Paulo ravaged by crack cocaine and other drugs.
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Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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