Just over a third of the Hispanic residents of the South Bronx and just under a third of
the Black residents of the area have incomes below the poverty level.
Not exact matches
Additional research indicates that healthcare facilities located in zip code
areas with higher percentages
of black residents were less likely to meet recommendations supportive
of breastfeeding than those with lower percentages
of black residents.
Facilities were divided into two categories: 1) those in zip code
areas where the percentage
of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011)(6) and 2) those in zip code
areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 %.
The results
of that analysis indicated that facilities in zip code
areas where the percentage
of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011) were less likely than facilities in zip code
areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 % to meet five
of 10 mPINC indicators for recommended practices supportive
of breastfeeding and more likely to implement one practice; differences for the other four practices were not statistically significant.
† Zip code
areas in which the percentage
of «non-Hispanic
black or African American»
residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011), compared with ≤ 12.2 %, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
To estimate the prevalence
of facilities with recommended maternity care practices by the percentage
of black residents in their
area, zip code level data for the category «non-Hispanic
black or African American alone» were obtained for the period 2007 — 2011 from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).
The 2010 Census found 30,000 fewer
black residents in the district than a decade prior;
blacks now make up only 26.5 percent
of the
area's population.
And perhaps most notably there was Howard Beach, which spawned angry protests by the city's
black residents - three
black men whose car had broken down in the all - white
area were attacked by a gang
of white youths.
A large group
of area residents, members
of the Hudson Valley
Black Lives Matter Coalition and members
of Samuel Harrell's family marched down Market Street in Poughkeepsie to the Dutchess County District Attorney's Office Thursday.
Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota, so it has a much larger
black community than most
of the surrounding
area, but African - American
residents still only make up 4.2 %
of the total population, according to the 2010 census.
Using 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census information, John Iceland and D. H. Weinberg in 2002 constructed dissimilarity indexes
of residential segregation by census tract in 220 metropolitan
areas in which at least 3 percent
of the
residents were
black or which had at least 20,000
black residents in 1980.
The sights and sounds
of the con were sometimes overwhelming — we were across from the
Resident Evil
area, complete with a
black vehicle with police lights and a siren, groups
of soldiers in full assault gear with face masks and weapons, and a caged zombie — but the time flew by because everyone was having such a good time (even the zombie.)