Sentences with phrase «black neighborhoods»

When I would go into predominantly black neighborhoods, generally they weren't familiar with us.

They were adjacent to an historically black neighborhood, where I'd run a business 25 years earlier.

There is a black church every 5 feet in black neighborhoods where crime is just running rampant!!!!! You have the nerve to talk about gays!

And if you happen to work in a traditionally black neighborhood, you'll be surprised how often probate is not being done.

According to one study, predominantly black neighborhoods have noticeably higher levels of air pollution than other communities.

Just listen to Spike Lee at Pratt Institute this past February, speaking here of the historically black neighborhoods of New York City:

Researchers conducted the study at four corner stores located in low - income, predominately black neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md..

Running through Milwaukee is the Menominee River Valley, which has long separated primarily black neighborhoods on its north - side, with white, immigrant neighborhoods on its south - side.

His studio is in Leimert Park, a thriving black neighborhood with economic challenges, where he recently founded Art + Practice, a community art foundation.

We didn't know that this kind of thing still went on, but scientists spread «biosolids» on yards in poor black neighborhoods in Baltimore to test whether it might protect kids from lead poisoning.

Deb and Dennis Hopkins sold their suburban condo and moved to a primarily black neighborhood to put their beliefs on the line.

By the beginning of 1968 most American cities were preparing for war - building up their arsenals, sending undercover agents into black neighborhoods like spies into enemy territory, recruiting citizenry as a standing reserve army.

A ProPublica investigation into Chicago's boom in bankruptcies revealed tickets as a main driver behind the rapid increase in bankruptcy filings in predominantly black neighborhoods across the city.

According to the report, renters in majority black neighborhoods have to spend 43.7 percent of their income on rent, while renters in majority Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 48.1 percent; renters in majority white neighborhoods, to compare, have to spend 30.7 percent — on par with the ideal budget for housing, 30 percent.

Earlier this summer, an episode of NPR's Embedded podcast chronicled the emotional responses of parents, students and staff to the shutdown of an overwhelmingly black neighborhood school in Wilkinsburg, Pa., that was more than a century old.

Anyone who has been through some of St. Louis» oldest areas, particularly in mostly black neighborhoods, is likely to have been struck by the number of uninhabited spaces.

In Miami, Teri Williams, the president of the country's largest black - owned bank, OneUnited Bank, was recently on the local public radio station, WLRN, talking about the importance of maintaining historically black neighborhoods as spaces for people of color.

I have also experienced racism in predominately black neighborhoods like Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

Turpin masterfully portrays the anguish, confusion, and anger of a young girl, caught between the worlds of her white school and black neighborhood when violence erupts.

As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighborhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy met with black activists, politicians and celebrities in a hotel suite «to tamp things down and divine what should come next,» writes David Margolick in «The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.»

In cities like Jacksonville and St. Louis, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look the same as they did decades ago, before the passage of the landmark fair housing law.

I do not have all the answers, but I wonder what would happen if every predominantly white church in America — north and south — were to ask a predominantly black church or a predominantly black neighborhood what they could do to serve their community?

The Cobo Center, Detroit's meeting and convention space, is named after Albert Cobo, a former Detroit mayor who advocated for racist housing policies and destroyed two great black neighborhoods in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley.

The Times reported that blacks in the city are eight times more likely to be arrested on low - level marijuana charges as whites and that the difference can not entirely be attributed to more residents in predominantly black neighborhoods calling police to complain about marijuana.

After another Jeffries broadside last month, at least one well - connected Democratic aide wondered to the Observer: Where are the mayor's validators, especially in the overwhelmingly black neighborhoods which buoyed him in 2013 and sit firmly in Mr. Jeffries» Brooklyn district?

And perhaps most damning of all, given whom the math dictated Israel would have needed in his column, Emanuel indicated that the nation's first black president was prepared to barnstorm through New York's black neighborhoods hand - in - hand with the junior senator, employing his appeal to African - Americans to a political degree he usually avoids.

After defeating Killmonger, T'Challa ends Wakanda's isolationism and, beginning in Oakland, starts to deploy Wakandan capital toward an international social - service project focused on impoverished black neighborhoods — again echoing the legacy of the Black Panther Party.

But the film's pulsating sense of life and self - discovery, set against the backdrop of an underprivileged black neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, can't be forgotten, especially for its discovery of Karidja Toure as Marieme, the girl whose coming of age we witness in such painfully authentic fashion.

Organized by activists from the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups with the Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, the hours - long demonstration started in North Philadelphia, a historically black neighborhood sprinkled with vacant lots and boarded - up buildings that had been left out of the convention's spotlight.

Longwood is in a very black neighborhood, and 99 percent of its students are black.

I can appreciate Treme's history as one of the first black neighborhoods in the country, but I don't have the kind of deep love of its customs, its music, its street culture that my mom and grandmother share.

We are much more interested in the educational equivalent of pop - up ATMs than in investing in vibrant black neighborhoods that produce and oversee their own great schools.

The study's authors — a group of academics in favor of more robust school integration policies — came away impressed with the state's information campaigns in the largely black neighborhoods of north Minneapolis.

* He grew up (and still lives) in South Central Los Angeles, a mainly black neighborhood mythologized for its urban decay.

This effort increased membership in the majority - Black neighborhood by 56 % while rides in the area more than tripled (overall ridership on Citi Bike increased 40 % in 2016, to a total of 14 million trips).

The middle class black neighborhoods paid $ 2,113 per year on average.

«You have mostly white officers patrolling a poor black neighborhood where they have no real nexus to the community, where there are high rates of complaints against the use of excessive force by police and the over-criminalization of the African American community,» Levy - Pounds said.

In San Francisco, whites and Asians are moving INTO traditionally black neighborhoods as African Americans continue a longtime exodus from the city.

With the support of powerful art collectors Dominique and John de Menil, artist Peter Bradley wrestled his artist buddies in from New York and they descended upon the poor black neighborhood to bring art to the people.