Sentences with phrase «many black residents»

Between 2000 and 2010, Chicago lost 181,000 black residents.

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.

One officer is notorious for harassing local black residents, to the point where he has been given a street nickname of «Bro Stupid,» said Burnell Williams, who works with at - risk youth and ex-prisoners for the nonprofit group Against All Odds.

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.»

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

Though the DOJ's report did not recommend seeking charges against the officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown during a confrontation this summer, it did say that the department routinely violated the constitutional rights of black residents.

White racists bombed black residents repeatedly through the 40s and 50s, and the area was repeatedly flooded when the Trinity River swelled.

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.

The people of Ferguson knew for years what the Justice Department report finally concluded — that the Ferguson Police Department routinely violated the constitutional rights of its black residents.

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

It has shaped beliefs about the black residents of Ferguson, laid the foundations for missteps by authorities, and affected the black Ferguson community's capacity to prevent the death of Michael Brown.

Chicago had several shootings of black residents on the Fourth of July by black attackers.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will speak about relations between black residents and police officers; 110 - 31 Merrick Blvd., Queens.

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.

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.

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.

Interestingly enough that's an attitude shared by 59 percent of black residents and 61 percent of Hispanic residents.

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.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

In a book published last year, Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese - Americans, VanLandingham also suggested that this community's members bounced back faster than many black residents of similar means because they faced less discrimination.

«Our findings indicate that stores that carry a limited variety of food may be more receptive to stocking healthier food than previously thought, particularly within neighborhoods with a majority of black residents.

Increases in healthy food were greatest in corner stores and in neighborhoods with a majority of black residents.

By looking at the changes in healthy food availability in a sample of food stores in the city of Baltimore between 2006 and 2012, researchers found that corner stores, particularly in neighborhoods with large numbers of black residents, were modestly but significantly more likely to carry a larger number of those healthful choices.

According the 2010 Census, New York City boasts the largest population of black residents of any city in the US.

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 first thing we learn about Dixon is that he was responsible for the torture of one (or more) of the town's black residents while questioning them.

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.

WASHINGTON — The State of Mississippi has a duty to eliminate the vestiges of segregation in its higher - education system that continue to hamper the college choices of its black high - school graduates, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a group of black residents told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Fuller began a career as a social worker and community organizer in Durham, North Carolina, rising up through local and statewide organizations that were focused on improving public services and opportunities for poor black residents.

«This is the history Mississippi wants to walk away from,» said Alvin O. Chambliss Jr., the lawyer for a group of black residents who sued the state in 1975 over racial disparities in its public colleges and universities.

Few black residents lived outside the central section of the city.

Most of D.C.'s black pre-K students attended schools where African - American student enrollment was 90 percent or higher, although D.C. school officials point out that the city has one of the nation's highest concentrations of black residents.

In addition, thousands of the poorest residents in the city could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residents.

Just over a third of the Hispanic residents of the South Bronx and just under a third of the Black residents of the area have incomes below the poverty level.

Understandably, black residents spoke out against this inequity and in 1998 the plan for school choice was revisited.

In a once - predominantly black city that is contending with shifting demographics as well as gentrification, the initial images, which featured no black residents, elicited fury on social media.

For the newly - freed black residents of Colfax, Louisiana, the beginning of Reconstruction promised them the right to vote, own property - and at last control their own lives.

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

Pittsburgh's black residents, Whitaker argues, offered cultural contributions that significantly shaped black history — and the nation.

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.

This exhibition of new work by Kimathi Donkor will reflect on themes arising from Donkor's engagement with local teenage black residents as they discovered the work of black British artists in the national collection at Tate Britain during workshops conducted earlier this Summer.