Sentences with phrase «black residents»

For half of the 10 practices, implementation was significantly lower among facilities in zip code areas with a higher percentage of black residents.

Few black residents lived outside the central section of the city.

Numbers from police reports show an overwhelming bias in how the police department subjected black residents to traffic stops, excessive force and harassment.

Interestingly enough that's an attitude shared by 59 percent of black residents and 61 percent of Hispanic residents.

We last left the matter of the Santa Cruz Maya and their efforts to enforce the law against black resident Rupert Myles who had bulldozed part of the Uxbenka Maya ruin to build a pathway to the house in the village where the Institute of Archaeology (IOA) had announced plans to...

«The Rec,» the R.L. Stevens Center on Seaboard Avenue, stands in a central location for many black residents of the neighborhood, and it is vacant.

Black residents leaving the Windy City for suburbs and warmer weather make up a large portion of those who left.

The first thing we learn about Dixon is that he was responsible for the torture of one (or more) of the town's black residents while questioning them.

«This is the history Mississippi wants to walk away from,» said Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., the lawyer for a group of black residents who sued the state in 1975 over racial disparities in its public colleges and universities.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

White racists bombed black residents repeatedly through the 40s and 50s, and the area was repeatedly flooded when the Trinity River swelled.

Among the spectators were a large group of black residents from McGowan «s West Side 29th Ward, who were accompanied by their alderman, Danny K. Davis, a longtime political foe of McGowan.

While that was a central bone of contention in the lawsuit, Kahn sidestepped the issue by ruling five districts are warranted simply by counting black residents.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will speak about relations between black residents and police officers; 110 - 31 Merrick Blvd., Queens.

Greer also said that when it comes to his challenges locally, Espaillat needs to really make sure that Black residents feel he supports their agenda.

WASHINGTON — The State of Mississippi has a duty to eliminate the vestiges of segregation in its higher - education system that continue to hamper the college choices of its black high - school graduates, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a group of black residents told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

In addition, thousands of the poorest residents in the city could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residents.

Understandably, black residents spoke out against this inequity and in 1998 the plan for school choice was revisited.

For the newly - freed black residents of Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property - and at last control their own lives.

The work centers on the Near West Side of Chicago, a large multi-ethnic community, and, specifically, the «Black Bottom» section of the Near West Side where black residents once lived.

This exhibition of new work by Kimathi Donkor will reflect on themes arising from Donkor's engagement with local teenage black residents as they discovered the work of black British artists in the national collection at Tate Britain during workshops conducted earlier this Summer.

The clients wanted to build a low - cost housing estate which would bring black residents into one of Chicago's «lily white» northern suburbs.

And even we city - dwellers can't avoid this history, because in urban areas, officials simply sundowned neighborhoods and made black residents return to their prescribed areas before dark.

The 2010 Census found 30,000 fewer black residents in the district than a decade prior; blacks now make up only 26.5 percent of the area's population.

The changes come after a U.S. Justice Department Investigation found that city officials and law enforcement regularly underwent practices that discriminated against black residents — who make up most of the city's population.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

In 2004, in the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the streets of New Orleans were filled with floating men: the bloated corpses of mostly poor, black residents left behind by rescue services.

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

Between 2000 and 2010, Chicago lost 181,000 black residents.

Black residents of Minneapolis and nearby towns said the lack of a requirement for police to live in the jurisdictions they patrol has kept officers disconnected from neighborhoods.

Though the DOJ's report did not recommend seeking charges against the officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown during a confrontation this summer, it did say that the department routinely violated the constitutional rights of black residents.

Today the Justice Department released a report showing that between 2012 and 2014, police in Ferguson, Missouri used force almost exclusively on its black residents.

The people of Ferguson knew for years what the Justice Department report finally concluded — that the Ferguson Police Department routinely violated the constitutional rights of its black residents.

It has shaped beliefs about the black residents of Ferguson, laid the foundations for missteps by authorities, and affected the black Ferguson community's capacity to prevent the death of Michael Brown.

Chicago had several shootings of black residents on the Fourth of July by black attackers.

Ask around the city and black residents will tell you they're more than disappointed in Newton and Jordan.

Additional research indicates that healthcare facilities located in zip code areas with higher percentages of black residents were less likely to meet recommendations supportive of breastfeeding than those with lower percentages of black residents.

Facilities were divided into two categories: 1) those in zip code areas where the percentage of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011)(6) and 2) those in zip code areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 %.

Facilities in zip code areas with > 12.2 % black residents were significantly more likely to assess staff competency than facilities in zip code areas with ≤ 12.2 % black residents (59.4 % compared with 53.2 %)(Table).

Comparing facilities in areas with > 12.2 % black residents with facilities in areas with ≤ 12.2 % black residents, the largest differences were in the percentage of facilities that implemented recommended practices related to early initiation of breastfeeding (46.0 % compared with 59.9 %), limited use of breastfeeding supplements (13.1 % compared with 25.8 %), and rooming - in (27.7 % compared with 39.4 %).