Sentences with phrase «made black residents»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Wilmington is actually one of the few cities in the US where black people make up the majority of residents.

Sioux Falls is the biggest city in South Dakota, so it has a much larger black community than most of the surrounding area, but African - American residents still only make up 4.2 % of the total population, according to the 2010 census.

With its dark humor and complicated characters and themes — a mother out to avenge her daughter's rape and murder, a suggestion of police brutality against black residents — «Three Billboards» made an early splash with critics and audiences at the Venice Film Festival in September and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in October, where it won the audience award and was hailed by some as one of the year's best.

The study also found that black, Hispanic, and low - income students, students whose parents attained low levels of education, and urban residents were most likely to make the change.

They ranged from one - time improvisations — such as his black - streaked «Automobile Tire Print,» which he made by having the musician John Cage drive his car over 20 sheets of paper in the street — to a decade of sustained creativity as the resident designer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

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.

Not infrequently a real estate speculator would buy some run - down houses in the inner city, make cosmetic repairs and sell them to inner - city, black residents who bought them using the new FHA mortgage.