A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent,
mostly white neighborhood.
Not exact matches
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.
Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in
white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly
white and lending
mostly to
white borrowers.
When I drive in my parents»
mostly white OP
neighborhood, I always see several
white people walking, jogging, pushing strollers in the street.
But the problem fans
mostly come from the same
mostly working class
white and Italian - American South Philadelphia
neighborhoods as the cops themselves.
Cops arrest more people for marijuana offenses in predominantly black and Latino
neighborhoods than in
mostly white areas where residents complain about the drug at similar rates.
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.
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?
That's changed because more families (
mostly white, virtually all of them affluent and well - educated) are living in west - of - the - park
neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase.
But not a single charter is in the
mostly white northwest
neighborhoods, or across the district lines in those Maryland and Virginia suburbs where whites and Asian Americans are in the majority.
To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of
mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in
white neighborhoods.
In recent months, the city's battle over school segregation has played out in a few specific schools in some of the its fastest - gentrifying (or already gentrified - to - saturation - point)
neighborhoods: Nikole Hannah - Jones chronicled the Brooklyn version of the saga in her much - discussed New York Times Magazine piece last weekend, «Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,» about her decision to send her black daughter to a
mostly minority school, only to have that school rezoned to include an affluent, predominantly
white population.
Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as
mostly White parents in
mostly upper - middle class
neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.
It is starting to mirror the opt - out movement, which was
mostly driven by well - off
white parents concluding that the «poor kids» tests meant to spark more accountability in poor
neighborhoods did little for their kids.
For now, most TJ students come from a group of middle schools that serve
neighborhoods that are
mostly affluent and
mostly white or Asian.
Lush Life is set on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish immigrant
neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular slumming spot for a young,
mostly white crowd.
Her life as a black teen from a crime - heavy
neighborhood and a student at a
mostly white private school provide points of conflict.
Never refer to any
neighborhood with such descriptions as «
mostly white area,» «black
neighborhood,» «Jewish
neighborhood,» «Irish community,» «Italian
neighborhood.»