Sentences with phrase «of black residents»

For half of the 10 practices, implementation was significantly lower among facilities in zip code areas with a higher percentage of black residents.

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

Among the spectators were a large group of black residents from McGowan «s West Side 29th Ward, who were accompanied by their alderman, Danny K. Davis, a longtime political foe of McGowan.

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.

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.

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.

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

Children living in Washington D.C. wards 7 and 8, with the highest concentration of black residents, had the longest commutes to school in the city.

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

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.

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.

«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.

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.

Comprised of five works of art, this group of paintings depicts the daily routines of black residents in romanticized versions of major housing projects in Los Angeles and Chicago, including the Nickerson Gardens housing project, the artist's childhood home.

In Mississippi, those categories converge: the state has the third - highest percentage of students who attend rural schools, the highest percentage of black residents, and the nation's highest poverty rate.

«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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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 %.

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