Sentences with phrase «affluent black families»

In black families, not only is debt higher, but there is no difference between wealthy black families and less affluent black families.

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I often tell the story about my family in 1969, moving into Harrington Park, New Jersey, this relatively affluent town, as the first black family.

Synopsis: Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10 - year - old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.&rblack leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.&rBlack families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

«Black and Latino families want world class public schools for our children, just as white and affluent families do.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

The fact of the matter is that Basquiat came from a relatively privileged unit in the comparison class of black families in New York in the middle of the century; his father was reasonably affluent and his mother exposed him to her knowledge of and interest in art history from a young age.

First, I've never met a layperson who doesn't think that they need no more than a «simple will» when in fact they often do, either because they are affluent, or have a blended family, or need testamentary trusts to manage property for children or young adults or black sheep or for tax purposes or because some family members are non-citizens.