Sentences with phrase «black residents in»

Using 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census information, John Iceland and D. H. Weinberg in 2002 constructed dissimilarity indexes of residential segregation by census tract in 220 metropolitan areas in which at least 3 percent of the residents were black or which had at least 20,000 black residents in 1980.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should not acquiesce to calls for his resignation, even as Emanuel comes under increasing scorn for his handling of the police - involved deaths of black residents in his city.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should not acquiesce to calls for his resignation, even as Emanuel comes under increasing scorn for his handling of the police - involved deaths of black residents in his city.

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.

To estimate the prevalence of facilities with recommended maternity care practices by the percentage of black residents in their area, zip code level data for the category «non-Hispanic black or African American alone» were obtained for the period 2007 — 2011 from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).

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.»

Not exact matches

State - wide data suggests the disparity is even a bit larger than Nixon described: 86 % of marijuana arrests were of black and Latino residents in 2017, while just 5 % were white, according to a Politico report.

More than 40 % of Flint residents live in poverty, and the majority are black, which raised the specter that both poverty and race played into why their concerns went unaddressed.

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.

The hurricane was still dumping rain overnight Wednesday in Puerto Rico, where crumbled red roof tiles lay scattered across many roads, and curious residents sidestepped and ducked under dozens of black power lines still swaying in heavy winds.

«Nearly 40,000 black, low - income residents have been displaced from D.C,» Stephanie Sneed of the Fair Budget Coalition, which has co-organized opposition to HQ2 in D.C., told me.

The Kind of Violence Americans Ignore: Air pollution is poisoning the residents of a poor, historically black neighborhood in Orlando, Florida.

These words, printed in white letters on a black T - shirt, are the foundation of Laurel resident Luke Roberts» new mobile app, which raises funds for food to serve students in need and their families through a Maryland...

Their fears were realized in 1854 when three wagon loads of black powder exploded while traveling through the city, killing two residents and causing extensive property damage.

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

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.

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.

If he were a black resident neighborhood watch member trailing a white kid in a hoodie with a troubled past?

We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white police department.

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

«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.

I'll be blunt: If there were more residents of North Philadelphia — i.e., blacks — going to the Eagles games and participating in the hooliganism, the cops would gladly wade in, bust heads, plant evidence and make arrests.

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).

The results of that analysis indicated that facilities in zip code areas where the percentage of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011) were less likely than facilities in zip code areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 % to meet five of 10 mPINC indicators for recommended practices supportive of breastfeeding and more likely to implement one practice; differences for the other four practices were not statistically significant.

† Zip code areas in which the percentage of «non-Hispanic black or African American» residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011), compared with ≤ 12.2 %, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

A plan to name an intersection after the first black FBI agent slain in the line of duty has angered some Bedford - Stuyvesant residents.

At a press conference, s representative of the Council condemned in no uncertain terms the lynching of the army officer on Monday at Denkyira - Obuasi and called on all resident of Denkyira to clad themselves in black attire on the day.

Another strength is the makeup of the union: predominantly black and Latino, many of them city residents who will vote in Democratic primaries.

Strategists nod to her recent appointment of L. Joy Williams, the president of the Brooklyn NAACP and board chair of Higher Heights, as a senior adviser, and Nixon's campaign launch in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a majority black neighborhood that encapsulates many of the flashpoints in the Democratic primary: It's the poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn and among the poorest in New York City, it's at the center of the affordable housing crisis, and residents are prepping for the 15 - month L train shutdown in early 2019, a symptom of New York City's dilapidated subway system that Nixon's branded» #CuomosMTA.»

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.

Black Lives Matter - Buffalo and a coalition of Buffalo residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo Police Department, accusing the agency of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing» that targets people of color.

«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a stateblack car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a stateBlack Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.

The elected officials, who are both black, addressed a roughly hundred - strong Uber - organized crowd gathered in Queensbridge Park in Queens — a hodgepodge of company drivers, customers and local residents of the adjacent Queensbridge Houses, apparently drawn by the free food, children's games and classic R&B and girl - group pop blasting from the speaker system.

The Roll of Honor consists of five black polished granite slabs, etched with the names of residents who perished in every American conflict.

As I have mentioned in previous posts, NY - 4 is much more competitive with the removal of 30,000 black, Hispanic and Asians voting age residents.

And perhaps most notably there was Howard Beach, which spawned angry protests by the city's black residents - three black men whose car had broken down in the all - white area were attacked by a gang of white youths.

The legislation was introduced following the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island resident whose death in police custody was captured on video and led to a national outcry and calls for police reform.

Cops arrest more people for marijuana offenses in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods than in mostly white areas where residents complain about the drug at similar rates.

But the residents in the LeFrak affordable housing complex — which is comprised of mostly black and Latino people — say the cruel irony is that the new site will result in less elderly and disabled people being able to vote.

«You're talking about electing a Dominican and maybe kicking out the most powerful African American politician in America in the last 40 years,» said Larry English, 56, the former chair of Community Board 9 and long - time resident of West Harlem who is black and supports Espaillat.

Mr. Cuomo is facing particular pressure to burnish his progressive credentials: The actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging him for the Democratic nomination for governor, has blasted him for what she called his «massive disinvestment» in schools and in other areas that affect black and Hispanic residents.

It was in 1941 when the young New York minister Adam Clayton Powell Jr., with several aides in tow, made a pilgrimage to Albany to convince Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of the need to carve out a tight congressional district for the black residents of Harlem.

Lastly, many black Bronx residents complain about being denied housing in favor of hispanics applicants.

Despite more than a decade of gentrification, shifting demographics and a wall of glassy buildings that have gone up on either side of the north - south corridor, most of the passersby were black and Hispanic — ordinary workers, residents and shoppers, with a few obviously mentally ill or under the influence individuals tossed in.

Evelyn Vossler has been a community activist for over 20 years, dedicated to improving the lives of Riverside and Black Rock residents through her civic and church activities at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Buffalo.

In recent years, the district has lost some of its black population while its Latino population has grown to account for more 55 percent of the district's residents, and 45 percent of those who can cast a ballot there.

Although records are sparse, New York State's museum archives can document at least six Erie County residents who served in the all - black 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed by the Germans of WWI as the «Harlem Hellfighters.»