Sentences with phrase «of black population»

As a result, over a quarter of the black population is on the database, compared to only 6 % of white people and 9 % of Asians.

«Despite Iowa's impressive civil - rights history on the books, the state has grappled with racial prejudices and hostility and systemic racism that have stilted the growth and development of its black population and legal community,» she said.

As shown by Figures 1 - 4, there has been a dispersion of white population throughout the county and a condensing of black population.

White racism, mass migrations, and the urbanization of the black population, he added, further disorganized black families in the 20th century.

However, even though she is certainly treated as an equal in the estate, Dido lives in a Georgian England where the economy is still very much dependant on the slave trade, where less than a third of the black population is free, and where her mere presence at the after - dinner recitals in her own home can cause looks of shock and bewilderment from the distinguished guests.

On the less sympathetic side are people like Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a patrol cop with a bad reputation for his harsh treatment of the black population in town.

A portrait of social entrapment in the 20th century, the movie chronicles the development of wealthy neighborhoods in Baltimore and the ghettoization of its black population to the point where the community has remained in perennial disrepair.

When it comes to areas such as London, Manchester and Birmingham, as well as the inhabitants of the black population, interracial dating in UK would be a more common thing.

What about the huge number of black singles out there also looking to find relationships?The good news is that now there are a growing number of black dating sites available to cater to the needs of the black population as well as white singles.

The researchers found the same is true when considering another important county characteristic — the relative size of the black population.

In recent years, the district has lost some of its black population while its Latino population has grown to account for more 55 percent of the district's residents, and 45 percent of those who can cast a ballot there.

They generally do not reach the masses of working people and underprivileged families who comprise the vast majority of the black population.

There is still much segregation and discrimination, and even if poverty - stricken blacks are only one - third at most of all the poor in America, poor people are a much larger proportion of the black population than of the white.

He will lose some support from members of the black population over this issue.

Did not Lincoln often declare, before 1864, that the only real hope of America lay in the resettlement of the black population somewhere else?

Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.

Not exact matches

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Although the U.S. has just 5 % of the world's population, it has about 25 % of the world's prisoners, and about one in three prisoners are black men.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2008, blacks and Hispanics constituted only 1.5 % and 4.7 % respectively of the Valley's tech population — well below national tech - population averages of 7.1 % and 5.3 %.

«It is a promising start to mapping the populations of black holes in our universe.»

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or insubordination among slaves.»

Clinton's campaign has argued she would assert control of the Democratic race once it moved to more diverse states with black and Hispanic populations who have traditionally backed Clinton and have been slow to warm to Sanders.

Blacks accounted for about 19 percent of Minneapolis» population in 2010 but just about 9 percent of the city's police officers in 2013, according to U.S. data.

Blacks made up about 55 percent of Baton Rouge's population in 2010, but only 30 percent of the police force in 2013, according to U.S. government data.

This post has been updated to reflect the change in percentage of black employees in overall global employee population, and the month from which data was pulled.

We don't know the full damage Harvey has caused yet, but already the media narrative that has emerged seems to be focusing far less on the black and underprivileged populations that suffered the most at the hands of Katrina.

You write that all combinations of red / black balls within the 100 ball population ARE possible; you don't say they are equally probable.

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She lives in a state where blacks make up a very small percentage of the population.

Blacks, though little more than a tenth of the population, constitute approximately half of the imprisoned felons in the nation.

To map that landscape, Roof and McKinney divide Americans into eight religious families: liberal Protestants (Presbyterians, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ), roughly 9 per cent of the population; moderate Protestants (United Methodists, Lutherans, Disciples, American Baptists, Reformed), 24 per cent; conservative Protestants (including Southern Baptists, Churches of Christ, Nazarenes, Pentecostal and holiness groups, and evangelicals and fundamentalists), 16 per cent; black Protestants, 16 per cent; Catholics.

Another poll in 1997 found that 72 percent of blacks and 48 percent of the general population endorsed vouchers.

Concentration camps, racism (and black racism is no more excusable than white racism), torture of enemies, extermination of whole populations — these are used by all regimes today, whether of the right or the left, whether capitalist or socialist.

Hmmm... what do you do when 6 % of the population (black males younger than 25) are responsible for 66 % of all murders?

Another article in The New York Times this week tells the story of Camden, New Jersey, long a notoriously failing city with a predominantly black population.

There's a huge racial divide in football — while 13.3 percent of the country's population is black, 70 percent of professional football players are.

Almost half of evangelicals (48 %) said that a growing population of immigrants has been a change for the worse, compared with a quarter of black Protestants.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

Of these, 2,066, or 54 per cent, were black, although blacks represent only about one - eleventh of the populatioOf these, 2,066, or 54 per cent, were black, although blacks represent only about one - eleventh of the populatioof the population.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

As a result of the subsequent importation of African slaves Colombia now has the third largest black population in the Americas, after Brazil and the U.S.

The net growth of black churches has not exceeded the rate of growth in the general population.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

An inquiry by the Department of Justice determined police exacted tolls disproportionately on the black population, which makes up around 67 % of the city.

Black people make up 13 % of the U.S. population so lets say we make up 13 % of that 71 Billion that's 9.23 B. that could send 256,389 black kids to college free of tuition for 4 years ($ 36,Black people make up 13 % of the U.S. population so lets say we make up 13 % of that 71 Billion that's 9.23 B. that could send 256,389 black kids to college free of tuition for 4 years ($ 36,black kids to college free of tuition for 4 years ($ 36,000).

In contrast, blacks make up 11 percent of the population but only 9 percent of the so - called «nones.»

Then there is the sadness of black Americans who, according to the polls, are social and moral conservatives, also on the question of abortion, but who have an abortion rate several times that of the general population.

Joined with other charismatic Black Independent Churches, they constitute a sizable proportion of the entire South African population.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.