Sentences with phrase «black population»

It had actually been considered a prominent community for the city's black population as early as the 1920s.

I'm curious what the presumed explanation is for this correlation between high black population and strong Republican voting among whites.

We were very interested to discover that the size of a state's black population does, however, have a strong relationship with a state's charter enrollment.

But O'Connell said that the role of black population concentration plays out primarily in states where slavery was most strongly rooted.

Western New York, with large black population in the cities and working - class whites in the suburbs, is a political bellwether.

As a result of the subsequent importation of African slaves Colombia now has the third largest black population in the Americas, after Brazil and the U.S.

President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Steve Golding will talk about the Association's efforts to assist and uplift the predominantly black population on the island nation.

Other ministers spoke of white supremacy, but more as a historical condition, urging white support for black populations until equality had been reached.

Every month, the site reaches 4 % of the total Black population in the US.

A review reveals that in schools with majority black populations, principals adopted suspensions for truancy and tardiness as a matter of policy, while principals at schools with fewer black students do not suspend for any attendance issues as a matter of policy.

Ms. James is a former councilwoman from central Brooklyn, where a significant black population, like in Mr. Rangel's district, resides.

The team used novel statistical techniques coupled with data from death certificates and estimates of the population in each U.S. state to calculate life expectancies, even for some states with small black populations.

«With a 4 percent black population [in high school], you kind of got lost,» Ms. Smith said recently.

Using a sample comprised of capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, counties with relatively large black populations because they were termini of the underground railroad, Professor Walker investigates the «limits of freedom» for Ontario's African Canadians.

But with a declining black population in some neighborhoods and redistricting potentially ceding a crucial area of African - American support, Democratic leaders are pushing to keep an African - American in the seat, sources said.

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or insubordination among slaves.»

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

Deerborn just happens to be the one thats 90 % Muslim since the White Flight when white populations and even black populations left when Muslims moved on in and started taking things over... like history repeating itself in many other areas of the world by the way.

In addition to a 36 % black population other traditional Democratic groups in Mississippi such as teachers, unions, etc. would also turn out.

The demographics of the district Rep. Charlie Rangel has been leading for more than 30 years have been shifting, becoming more white and Latino, with a dwindling black population.

The district, though majority Latino, boasts a large and higher - turnout black population that helped elect Mr. Stevenson and could propel someone like Mr. Benjamin, who is also black, into office again.

Leaders are particularly working to help South Africa's black population reap the new scientific opportunities, which have traditionally gone to the nation's privileged whites.

«However, other states with comparatively large black populations like California and Texas kept the national gap from closing more than it did.

In the 20th century, Detroit's black population exploded as African - Americans left the South in search of a fair and prosperous place to call home.

Understandably afraid of white western colonization that would immediately steal their awesome resources, the previous kings have adopted an isolationist and tribalist attitude, keeping themselves from interfering in world affairs, no matter how much the rest of the world's black population suffered in the meantime.

«Detroit» depicts the violence and anger, triggered by heightened racial tensions, between the city's largely black population and mostly white police force.

By 1961, Baltimore schools had changed from an overwhelmingly white enrollment to a mostly black population and still had many segregated schools.

The areas in red had predominently black populations; banks declared these «hazardous» areas and either barred loans to purchase homes here, or made interest rates untenably high

As shown by Figures 1 - 4, there has been a dispersion of white population throughout the county and a condensing of black population.

When a district court holds the State liable for discrimination almost 30 years after the last official state action, it must do more than show that there are schools with high black populations...

Another article in The New York Times this week tells the story of Camden, New Jersey, long a notoriously failing city with a predominantly black population.

The gesture was one of respect for the city's majority black population, and an acknowledgment of the violent history whose scars are still very raw.

Dating apps don't have to be black - only — an app with a large general membership and a significant black population can greatly improve your chances of meeting someone who's your type.

Perhaps we shall have a woman, perhaps a black professor (Vermont has a very small black population), perhaps a seminary professor from the Third World.

Little Rock has a huge black population — about 42 % of residents identified as black or African - American in the 2010 census — and was the backdrop for the milestone events in the Civil Rights Movement.

Hamilton County when compared to Butler County has more renters, a higher average salary at $ 40,000, a larger black population [23 % vs. 5 %] and a lower median house value at $ 148,000.

Note * If two races mean half - black and half - other, then we can add two race on top of the 65.8 - percent school's black population because America still sees the one drop rule.

Did not Lincoln often declare, before 1864, that the only real hope of America lay in the resettlement of the black population somewhere else?

He will lose some support from members of the black population over this issue.

the black population should be more concerned with the 27 % unemployment rate in the black community rather than who wants to marry who?

So it's not just about color but about who will fight for overiding issues and causes that the black population believe are priorities at this point in time.