I wonder if white America as a whole will ever be able to empathize with present-day struggle.
'I'm much more into present-day struggles than keeping alive the memory of someone who has died.
Although the lawsuit focuses on historic grievances, Indians' complaints are anchored in present-day struggles, mainly with the majority Malays.
From the battle for civil rights in the 1960s to present-day struggles against racist and discriminatory language in the public sphere, progressives have championed the rights of black and brown people, LGBT people and other minorities previously marginalised in western societies.
Even while reading the script for "The Danish Girl," the film opening Friday that chronicles the gender transition of artist Lili Elbe, Redmayne wasn't fully aware of the historical or the present-day struggles of transgender people.
Flash forward to present day, Christopher Fanjon struggles between working a full time job, and going to school.
With their own money, Max and Ferdinand produced a film that highlights the present day woes and struggles of indigenous people of Winnipeg.
I'd been doing that thing of, 'It's not about winning, it's about taking part.'" The novel cuts between two time frames; the present day with two new parents struggling to get a grip on the change in their lives, and 50 years earlier in bohemian Soho, where the newly-arrived Lexie Sinclair throws herself into the London art scene.
I am referring to struggles of the present day: the disputes over Iraq and other issues, the partisan rancor, the idea that America must be a nation divided, one half red, one half blue.
In the present day, Elina, an artist, and her partner, Ted, struggle with work and parenthood.
Byron's coming-of-age story alternates and, ultimately, converges with that of Jim, a middle-aged man struggling with O.C.D. in the present day.
