Sentences with phrase «black district»

Johnson, who already is in his sixth term, was the first black district attorney in the state.

Thompson, the first black district attorney of Brooklyn, died this month after a battle with cancer and was memorialized over the weekend.

He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.

That's when dozens of election districts reported ZERO votes for Obama even though they were mostly black districts.

Reconstruction led to political fence - mending between the North and South, spawning Jim Crow laws and institutionalizing racism in the largely black District of Columbia, once considered «a black man's paradise.»

Richardson then complained that the de Blasio administration had proposed five homeless shelters in her predominately black district.

MANHATTAN — A federal judge has proposed new congressional lines that would keep Rep. Charlie Rangel's district anchored in Harlem — but shift the historically black district to become even more Latino.

And his district was redrawn after the 2010 census to include parts of the Bronx, which along with Harlem's gentrification transformed a heavily black district into one that's majority Hispanic.

One of the first schools Grant visited in Raleigh, in the historic black district, serves a student population that is majority black with one - third of children from low - income families.

Local, Black District officials (one of whom went to Baldwin) and local, Black LAUSD Board office heads are laying low, doing nothing to protect our school's programs.

Kenneth P. Thompson, the first black district attorney of Brooklyn and a voice for racial justice at a moment of tension between law enforcement and minority communities, died yesterday from cancer, his family said.

After the death of Kenneth P. Thompson, the first black district attorney of Brooklyn, Ms. James saw her name floated as an interim replacement.

Although used to representing a majority - black district in northern Manhattan, Rangel has witnessed the gradual departure of black voters from the area, and his redrawn district is majority - Hispanic.»

Redistricting in 2012 changed it from a majority black district to a majority Hispanic district that included parts of the Bronx as well as its traditional Harlem stronghold.

Supporters of the law noted that there was no outcry when students from that mostly black district were transferring to Normandy, which at that time had been accredited.

Creation of a regional school district could be one way to settle a long - running New Jersey dispute over whether a predominantly white school district should be required to send its high - school students to a largely black district, the state school chief has recommended.

Both North Carolina and Virginia said they were trying to preserve majority - black districts in their maps.

Thompson, 50, was elected in 2013, becoming the borough's first black district attorney.

Mr. Thompson, a Democrat and Brooklyn's first black district attorney, has led the charge against a request State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman made to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week to temporarily appoint himself as a special prosecutor in future cases that involve a police officer's actions leading to the death of an unarmed civilian.

Because of a decline in African - American population, the number of black districts will remain the same.

Black districts are becoming more middle class and Hispanic districts are beginning to encompass a greater range of Latino ethnicities,» Bositis said.

There's speculation that Rangel's no - longer - majority - black district in upper Manhattan will extend north, all the way to Mount Vernon, in order to regain enough African - American voters to make it more likely that Rangel will get re-elected, and to make it easier, theoretically, for an African - American to succeed him.

He praised Thompson for making history as Brooklyn's first black district attorney and noted he worked with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Eastern District of New York before establishing a law firm focused on social justice and fighting discrimination.

Mr. Thompson, who is first black district attorney of Brooklyn, will hold a news conference tomorrow to discuss the grand jury decision.

Then he scored overwhelming totals in black districts, including a whopping 97 percent in Masten and 84 percent in University.

When the Bossier Parish school board began considering new boundaries for its voting districts in 1992, George Price and others in the local NAACP saw a chance to carve out two majority - black districts.

Marquette University's Howard Fuller explained that the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program only came about because the state legislature rejected an earlier push to break up the Milwaukee school system and create an all - black district.

Simply mixing students didn't led to wholesale improvement to schools in black districts.

Only one majority - black district in Mississippi earned an A on the state's annual A-F rating scale.

All of the state's «F» rated school districts are majority - black districts, and all of the districts taken over by the state since 2010 are also majority - black districts, with one exception.

JPS is a majority - black district, with African American students making up over 96 percent of the student body.

Out of our clear differences, we are creating a dual system of public schools in black districts.

The transfer law was invoked several years back when Normandy, which is 97 percent black, took in students from another predominantly black district that eventually dissolved.

White students are concentrated in three high - quality college prep high schools, whereas the high school graduation rate is only 25 percent for young African American men in Buffalo's majority - black district.

More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi.