Sentences with phrase «black population in»

We estimated that an increase of 11 percentage points in the black population in a district increases the share of students enrolled in charter schools by about 6 percentage points.

On the less sympathetic side are people like Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a patrol cop with a bad reputation for his harsh treatment of the black population in town.

Established in the year 2002, this black dating site has managed to reach the 4 % of the entire black population in US.

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

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

The black population in Montana is fairly slim, which can be frustrating for daters attracted to diversity or dark skin.

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

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.

Over the same time, the black population in the city grew tenfold from 4,500 to 42,000.

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.

Not exact matches

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Although the U.S. has just 5 % of the world's population, it has about 25 % of the world's prisoners, and about one in three prisoners are black men.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2008, blacks and Hispanics constituted only 1.5 % and 4.7 % respectively of the Valley's tech population — well below national tech - population averages of 7.1 % and 5.3 %.

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

«It is a promising start to mapping the populations of black holes in our universe.»

The numbers are stark: America's population is 13 percent black, but in the Silicon Valley work force, that portion is less than 1 percent.

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.»

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

Blacks accounted for about 19 percent of Minneapolis» population in 2010 but just about 9 percent of the city's police officers in 2013, according to U.S. data.

Blacks made up about 55 percent of Baton Rouge's population in 2010, but only 30 percent of the police force in 2013, according to U.S. government data.

This post has been updated to reflect the change in percentage of black employees in overall global employee population, and the month from which data was pulled.

For example, when the CEI (blue dotted line) is adjusted for growth in population (red dotted line) or the labor force (black dotted line), the stock market's failure to sustainably break out above its Apr 26 high in the S&P 500 index (SPX) at 1220 is understandable, as it has been predictable by our business cycle model explained our email to you four days ago (copied in below).

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

But it won't be pressuring Apple or Facebook to hire black Americans in proportion to their representation in the population at large.

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She lives in a state where blacks make up a very small percentage of the population.

Blacks, though little more than a tenth of the population, constitute approximately half of the imprisoned felons in the nation.

Another poll in 1997 found that 72 percent of blacks and 48 percent of the general population endorsed vouchers.

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.

There's a huge racial divide in football — while 13.3 percent of the country's population is black, 70 percent of professional football players are.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

The net growth of black churches has not exceeded the rate of growth in the general population.

The black population apparently has been around since the 1800s and the latino population grew in the 50s... and they are still a minority!

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

The black citizenry watched these Vietnamese victims settle into homes in neighborhoods from which the black American population has been systematically excluded.

In contrast, blacks make up 11 percent of the population but only 9 percent of the so - called «nones.»

Hundreds of monuments to slavery still stand throughout the Southeast, such as Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where a student population that's 94 percent black attends classes in a building that honors a man who claimed the horrors of slavery.

Black is the original or «normal» skin color for humans — lighter skin colors evolved in the last few tens of thousands of years as populations adapted to higher latitudes.

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.

The Nation reports that black women make up about 44 percent of all women in prison, despite making up only about 7 percent of the population.

A few years ago the attitudes of white people on matters of race relations in the South could be fairly well predicted by examining a map which showed county by county the proportion of blacks to whites in the population.

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In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

While it is true that 80 to 90 per cent of all births out of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half of all black children live in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group in the total population, and are the lowest - paid of employed males.

One year ago, the reportedly «fastest - growing church in Africa» dedicated a $ 15.5 million, 10,000 - seat conference center in a sparse prairie town northeast of Dallas whose population is less than 1 percent black.

In Kankakee, where only 15 to 20 per cent of the city population is black, these figures could represent a guiding ratio for the project.

Blacks make up more than 12 % of the population in the United States and will vote at a rate of about 98 % for Obama.

There is still much segregation and discrimination, and even if poverty - stricken blacks are only one - third at most of all the poor in America, poor people are a much larger proportion of the black population than of the white.

At the same time, public opinion polls demonstrate a continuous improvement in the dominant white population groups» ideas about black people and how they should be treated.