Sentences with phrase «mostly white community»

A mostly white community in Alabama is being allowed to secede from its mostly black school district.

As a result, one Colin Warner (LaKeith Stanfield), a resident of the mostly African - American community of Crown Heights Brooklyn, was sent upstate to Dannemora Prison, a mostly white community with principally white guards.

To decide to live in a mostly white community with no thought as to why it feels safer or mandatory for your family is to disengage.

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As an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban community.

He has such fond memories of Mount Vernon, yet he chose to run away from the city, and currently resides in Rye, a «wealthy, mostly white» community which refuses to accept any form of «affordable housing» and is one of such communities in Westchester County which dumps all of «the problems» into Mount Vernon.

I «ve tried many sites but most seem to cater mostly toward the white community and I kinda fall short of that category..

Get Out is kind of a miracle of a hit, one that isn't exclusive to the mostly white film community, but one that made $ 175 million on a $ 5 million budget.

In addition to alienating advantaged, mostly white, families, PM has also alienated minority community leaders.

In addition, the plan to accept transfer students from low - income, predominantly black communities at mostly white suburban schools was, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported, «met with acrimony.»

Perhaps it was Schaefer's public dispute with the city's first black superintendent, which became an intensely racial conflict between community activists and the mostly white school board, that sensitized him to the political costs of becoming too deeply engaged in school affairs.

Meanwhile, the local teachers» union and black community leaders organized a drive to reclaim «our schools» from the mostly white Legislature in Lansing.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

Community leaders led protests against the schools, arguing that changes were coming from the top down and the top was made up of mostly white decision makers.

Black middle class families that live in mostly white environments must also put a large emphasis on the ability to code switch and be familiar with the cultures associated with both largely black and largely white communities (Lacy, 2007).

This year also marks the second year of the CruisIN» the D', a cruise event that takes place south of 8 Mile Road in Detroit, offering the predominantly black community an alternative to the mostly white gathering in the suburbs to the north.

I've been a lazy, half - hearted participant in the blogging community, since it often seems more like an icky «like» exchange than a thoughtful thought exchange, and also because I mostly write for myself and my dear seven readers (most of whom are white).

It read: «Working with the police in any form is enacting the racist police state on a community of mostly people of color and is in direct service of white supremacy and capitalism.»

Soap operas have long been popular in the African American community, but the actors are mostly white.

But communities of color want more than for mostly white environmental groups to take their welfare into account.

More comprehensive childhood adversity measures exist but may not reflect inner - city youth experiences, as these measures were designed from interviews with mostly white, middle to upper middle class youth from rural and suburban communities.29 — 36

Never refer to any neighborhood with such descriptions as «mostly white area,» «black neighborhood,» «Jewish neighborhood,» «Irish community,» «Italian neighborhood.»