Sentences with phrase «mostly white neighborhoods»

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.

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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.»