Sentences with phrase «large black minority»

The US debate most visible for a few reasons: language (English is widely spoken), numbers (large black minority), media (including social media) and history (slavery).

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Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

They don't mind using some religious person's ignorance and delusions against them, nor do they mind using «token» blacks and other minorities despite a large number of clear indications that they are racist, h.om.ophobic sociopaths.

Risk factors for prediabetes include having a large waist or being overweight; being of Black or South Asian origin; having a family history of the condition; and being over 40 years old, or over 25 if you're Black, Asian or from an ethnic minority group.

A report published by the Commission today (3 March) suggests that several million people will not be able to vote at the general election because they are not registered, that only a minority of the 17 - 24 age group are registered, and that large numbers of black and ethnic minority people will also be without a vote.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

Black Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States and form the second largest racial group after whites in the United States.

The U.S. Census Bureau had been predicting it, but it happened sooner than expected: The number of Hispanic children has surpassed the number of non-Hispanic black children, making Hispanics the largest minority group among children younger than 18.

Of course, minority children, whether black or Latino, are disproportionately represented among the latter, but Putnam also sketches a portrait of large class disparities within the black and Latino communities.

The data also shows that Latinos, the nation's largest minority, have become increasingly isolated for the last 30 years, with segregation surpassing that of blacks, and the rapid growth of suburban minorities has not produced integrated schools.

Despite the remarkable story of how the Raleigh — Wake County schools raised the achievement of black school students, this is still a task that in large measure will have to be accomplished in black and minority - dominated schools.

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

At roughly a quarter of the enrollment, black students continue to constitute the largest minority group in the state.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

Christopher Stephens, chairman of the JAC, said: «Women are applying and being selected in increasing numbers; black and minority ethnic lawyers are applying in larger numbers and are doing well in entry - level posts and solicitors are performing better in entry and middle ranking posts.

... Covington began stockpiling its staff attorney ghetto with blacks and other minorities in 2005, shortly after the General Council of some of the country's largest companies joined Roderick A. Palmore, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Sara Lee in taking a tougher stance on law firm diversity.

The visible minority population was relatively small — four per cent of the total population — with black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.

In Canada overall, the largest visible minority communities were South Asian (1.9 million people), Chinese (1.6 million) and Black (1.2 million).