Sentences with phrase «into white neighborhoods»

It cleverly defies all of the dreary fall sitcom trends: black people moving into white neighborhoods, single parents struggling to hold housefuls of screaming brats in line, gay men yearning to make sense of a straight world, and young adults basically acting like idiots.

The law banned racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing, block busting (in which real estate agents move a black family into a white neighborhood and use it to frighten white homeowners into selling, turning the neighborhood from white to black), racial steering (in which real estate agents steer home seekers to racially distinct neighborhoods), and intimidation and coercion.

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While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Type «White people ruin,» as a potential advertising keyword into Google's ad platform, and Google will suggest you run ads next to searches including «black people ruin neighborhoods.»

Nekima Levy - Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, compares the city's mostly white police department to «an occupying force» when its officers go into black neighborhoods.

In the historically black neighborhood of Point Breeze in Philadelphia, financial institutions collectively put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers between 2012 and 2016.

Collectively, financial institutions put $ 154 million worth of home loans into the hands of white borrowers there between 2012 and 2016, even as they denied nearly twice as many home loans to African Americans as they made in the neighborhood.

Or take our friends who have moved into a low - income, predominantly black neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, where a white and black pastor lead a church together.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

This move, long desired by the Puerto Rican - born CM Mark - Viverito, reflects the transition of Manhattan Valley from being part of south Harlem into part of the Upper West Side: the neighborhood since 2000 has become substantially more white and Asian, and quite substantially less black and Latino.

The election is the final part of the process that was done to replace the late Thomas White, who died last August, eight months into his second term as representative for the district that covers the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale and South Ozone Park.

Telvock found the program is beset with slipshod methods and puts more effort into testing predominantly white enclaves with few lead poisoning than in the inner - city neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a State Police investigation into the distribution of white supremacist fliers in an Upstate NY neighborhood.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

If you're staying close to home, pair this red top with white cutoff shorts and Jacks for a neighborhood parade then change into this off - the - shoulder dress to stay cool while oohing and aahing during the fireworks.

Alternatively, you may be the white skinned male moving into a racially diverse neighborhood.

He is the one who tells Jack and Vanessa about the house and actually even questions why some nice white people like yourselves would move into such a bad neighborhood.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

The school, South Boston High School, attracted national attention in 1974 when it was wracked by riots in the wake of court - ordered busing that brought black students into its predominantly white neighborhood.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

My children entered the neighborhood schools, my daughter into a totally desegregated middle school and my two sons into an all - white elementary school.

With many suburban neighborhoods divided into racial clusters, white students from white neighborhoods are attending almost all - white schools, while...

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

We had emotionally exhausting conversations about race and privilege in the context of our work when we disagreed and at a time when some wanted to demonize White reformers coming into their neighborhoods to build schools.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

The author begins another sweeping arc as black families begin moving into previously all - white neighborhoods.

Black families are beginning to move into formerly all white neighborhoods with increasing displeasure from the community.

Black families are beginning to move in formerly white neighborhoods and tensions are rising high — Officer Lucius Boggs and his partner, Tommy Smith, must battle the KKK and corrupt officers in their city in order to achieve justice and stop the flow of moonshine and drugs into their community.

Opened in 1993 under the direction of Masami Shiraishi and situated in a former bathhouse building located in a charming neighborhood of Ueno Park in Tokyo's Yanaka district, SCAI The Bathhouse gallery features simple white walls combined with excellent natural light which turn it into a bright and airy space.

Throughout the neighborhood, galleries can be found tucked into small storefronts, up narrow staircases, and more recently in newly - built white box spaces.

The prohibition was enacted in 1974 in reaction to an unscrupulous practice known as blockbusting, whereby certain real estate practitioners allegedly tried to frighten white homeowners into dumping their properties when blacks moved into the neighborhood.

Over the next several months, King and local activists held non-violent demonstrations outside real estate offices and marched into all - white neighborhoods.