Sentences with phrase «heavily black district»

And his district was redrawn after the 2010 census to include parts of the Bronx, which along with Harlem's gentrification transformed a heavily black district into one that's majority Hispanic.

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And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

Democrats denied that claim, and leveled an accusation of their own: that lawyers working on behalf of Mr. Venditto had been purposely challenging ballots coming out of heavily black and Latino parts of the district, owing to those groups» traditional support of Democratic candidates.

Sources suggested Mr. Seddio might run for the seat himself, or choose former Councilman Lew Fidler — who has had some well - documented health issues — to run to represent the diverse district, which covers largely black Brownsville, heavily Caribbean - American Canarsie and the predominantly Russian - Jewish enclave of Sheepshead Bay.

The suit, filed in 1989, alleged that district officials intentionally discriminated against black students by building several new schools in predominantly white sections of the Las Vegas Valley while building none on the city's heavily black west side.